Continuing my Florida environmental and land use case law updates, I summarized the cases below with my co-author in the latest newsletter of the Florida Bar's Environmental and Land Use Law Section.
- Miami-Dade Cnty. v. Torbert,
- 36 Fla. L. Weekly D1674a
- (Fla. 3d
- DCA Aug. 3, 2011), holding that plat restrictions must be incorporated and reference into a deed to be valid.
- St. Johns River Water Mgmt. Dist. v. Molica, 2011 WL 3627412 (Fla. 5th DCA Aug. 19, 2011), declaring that Water Management Districts have the power to create an administrative rule requiring environmental resource permits (ERP) for dredging and filling of surface water and wetlands.
- Bush v. Mexico Beach, 2011 WL 4345169 (Fla. 1st DCA Aug. 31, 2011), confirming previous case law requiring comprehensive plan consistency challenges after a local government hearing to be brought in de novo proceedings in circuit court, but allowing challenges to the hearing based on other reasons to be brought as certiorari proceedings.
- Mickel v. Norton, 2011 WL 4415353 (Fla. 2d DCA Sept. 23, 2011), holding that property owners do not have a riparian right to an unobstructed view of the water body unless the property directly borders it.
- 1000 Friends of Fla., Inc. v. Palm Beach Cnty., 2011 WL 4577746 (Fla. 4th DCA Oct. 5, 2011), stating that comprehensive plans are to be interpreted using the same rules of construction as statutes.
- West Palm Beach v. Roberts, 2011 WL 4949795 (Fla. 4th DCA Oct. 19, 2011), affirming a decision holding a city liable for inverse condemnation where it demolished a structure without giving the owner adequate notice.
- Pembroke Ctr., LLC v. Fla. Dep’t of Transp., 64 So. 3d 737 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011), denying an inverse condemnation claim where there were mere "planning activities" but no loss of activities.
