METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. DUSSEAU

Nos. 98-1612 & 98-1611.

725 So.2d 1169 (1998)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS and University Baptist Church, Inc., Petitioners, v. Charles DUSSEAU, et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Attorney, and Augusto E. Maxwell, Assistant County Attorney, for petitioner Metropolitan Dade County.

Bilzin Sumberg Dunn Price & Axelrod, Stanley B. Price, Eileen Ball Mehta, and Michael W. Larkin, Miami; Steel Hector & Davis and Alvin B. Davis, Miami, for petitioner University Baptist Church.

Shubin & Bass and Jeffrey S. Bass, Miami, for respondents.

Before NESBITT, GERSTEN and GODERICH, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The petitioners, University Baptist Church, Inc. [UBC] and Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners [Commission], seek a writ of certiorari quashing the decision of the Circuit Court, Appellate Division, which reversed the Commission's approval of UBC's zoning application. We grant the petition.

UBC owns 19.7 acres of land that is zoned EU1 (Single Family One Acre Estate District). Under Miami-Dade County land use regulations, churches are...

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