Miami-Dade County v. Valdes

Miami-Dade County seeks second-tier certiorari review of an opinion issued by the circuit court, sitting in its appellate capacity, quashing a decision of the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners (“the Board”). The decision *19the circuit court quashed was the Board’s affirmance of the denial of Rene Miguel Valdes’ (“Valdes”)4 application for a district boundary change from RU-1 (single family use) to RU-5A (semi-professional office district), or in the alternative, a use variance to permit RU-5A uses within his property’s RU-1 zoning district. Because the circuit court panel failed…