City of Hollywood v. South Broward Hospital District

GUNTHER, Judge.

We grant the City of Hollywood’s petition for writ of common law certiorari and quash the circuit court’s final judgment granting permission to the South Broward Hospital District for a ground level emergency helicopter landing pad adjacent to the hospital.

The final judgment is quashed because the circuit court acting in its appellate capacity departed from the essential requirements of law in that the court improperly applied the “balancing of public interests” test, reweighed the evidence, and substituted its judgment for that of the fact finder.

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