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01-3294 MIAMI BEACH V. CHISHOLM
State: Florida
Court: Florida Third District Court
Docket No: 01-3294 MIAMI BEACH V. CHISHOLM
Case Date: 11/27/2002
Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JULY TERM, A.D. 2002 THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, a Florida municipal corporation, Petitioner, vs. CHISHOLM PROPERTIES SOUTH BEACH, INC., BEACH HOTEL ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, THE DECOPLAGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., JUAN JOVER, and RPH HOTEL ASSOCIATES, LLC, ** ** ** ** ** ** CASE NO. 3D01-3294 LOWER TRIBUNAL NOS. 00-091 00-092 00-362 ** 00-365

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Respondents. ** ________________________________ ** RPH HOTEL ASSOCIATES, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, successor by merger to RITZ PLAZA HOTEL ** CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, ** Petitioner, ** vs. ** CHISHOLM PROPERTIES SOUTH BEACH, INC., BEACH HOTEL ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, ** THE DECOPLAGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., JUAN JOVER, IAN SHRAGER HOTEL MANAGEMENT, LLC, THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ** THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, **

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CASE NO. 3D01-3298

** LOWER TRIBUNAL NOS. 00-91 00-92 00-362 ** 00-365

Respondents. **

Opinion filed November 27, 2002. On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Dade County, Appellate Division, Scott S. Silverman, Cecilia M. Altonaga, and Leon Firtel, Judges. Murray H. Dubbin, City Attorney and Robert Dixon, Deputy City Attorney and Debora J. Turner, First Assistant City Attorney and Gary M. Held, First Assistant City Attorney, for The City of Miami Beach. Siemon & Larsen and Charles L. Siemon and Todd G. Messenger (Boca Raton); Tew Cardenas Rebak Kellogg Lehman Demaria Tague Raymond & Levine and Santiago D. Echemendia and Bob de la Fuente and Patricia M. Baloyra, for RPH Hotel Associates, LLC. Richard & Richard and Dennis Richard and Richard Sarafan for Chisholm Properties South Beach, Inc. and Beach Hotel Associates Limited Partnership. Shubin and Bass and Jeffrey S. Bass for Decoplage Condominium Association and Juan Jover. ON MOTION FOR REHEARING Before COPE, LEVY, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge. The motion for rehearing is denied. ON MOTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON, COPE, LEVY, GERSTEN, GODERICH, GREEN, SHEVIN, and RAMIREZ, JJ.* PER CURIAM. The motion for rehearing en banc is denied. JORGENSON, COPE, LEVY, GERSTEN, GODERICH, GREEN, SHEVIN and RAMIREZ, JJ., concur.

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FLETCHER, J., recused.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge (specially concurring). On July 1, 2002, a panel of this court unanimously and without opinion denied a petition for writ of certiorari seeking second-tier review of a decision of the Appellate Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. City of Miami Beach v. Chisholm

Properties South Beach, Inc., No. 3D01-3294 (Fla. 3d DCA Clerk's Order July 1, 2002). In that case, Chisholm Properties South

Beach, Inc. v. City of Miami Beach, 8 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 689 (Fla. 11th Cir.Ct. August 9, 2001), the circuit court, in a comprehensive and insightful opinion by Judge Altonaga, rejected an attempt by a hotel owner and the City of Miami Beach to grant totally unjustified and illegal height variances through the device of a sweetheart "settlement" of a spurious action by the hotel owner against the City under the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act,
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