Case Name: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Bernice WALBERG, et al., Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-06-30
Citations: 739 So. 2d 115
Docket Number: No. 99-840
Parties: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Bernice WALBERG, et al., Respondents.
Judges: Before NESBITT, JORGENSON, and LEVY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 739
Pages: 115–118

Head Matter:
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Bernice WALBERG, et al., Respondents.
No. 99-840.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 30, 1999.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 8, 1999.
Robert A. Ginsburg, Miami-Dade County Attorney, and August Maxwell, Assistant County Attorney, for petitioner.
Greenberg Traurig, P.A., and Alan T. Dimond and Elliot H. Scherker, Miami, for respondents.
Before NESBITT, JORGENSON, and LEVY, JJ.

Opinion:
JORGENSON, Judge.
The County seeks certiorari review of a zoning decision from the Circuit Court of Miami-Dade County, Appellate Division. The decision was split, with Judge Siegel dissenting. For the reasons that follow, we grant the petition and quash the order under review.
This court's scope of review is very narrow: "[T]he district court, upon review of the circuit court's judgment . determines whether the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law." Metropolitan Dade County v. Blumenthal, 675 So.2d 598, 601 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995), quoting City of Deerfield Beach v. Vaillant, 419 So.2d 624, 626 (Fla.1982). See also, Haines City Community Dev. v. Heggs, 658 So.2d 523, 529 n. 10 (Fla.1995) ("the extraordinary writ [certio-rari review] is reserved for those situations where 'there has been a violation of a clearly established principle of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice.' "). We adopt the dissent of Judge Siegel and publish it as the opinion of this court.