The recent verdict in a lawsuit against a Miami-Dade municipality’s government could have repercussions for developers and local governments across the country.
Andreas Hase’s firm Megladon, Inc., a small developer that specializes in “tropical modern” single-family homes, was planning to build a house at 13100 SW 77th Ave. in Pinecrest, an affluent town of about 18,000 in south Miami-Dade County.
But when Hase, a Pinecrest resident, began the permitting process to build the house, the local government told him he’d need to cede a piece of the lot to the village in order to get the permit he needed…