About two years ago, a construction crew working on a Coconut Grove mega-mansion for prominent Miami developer David Martin sliced off a 45-foot-long piece from the top of Silver Bluff, a protected and much-cherished 120,000-year-old limestone ridge that runs along the Biscayne Bay shoreline.
Now, an apologetic Martin, who says the damage to the bluff was unintentional, has won city of Miami approval for an unprecedented fix — hiring a skilled stonemason to recreate the missing top two-and-a-half feet of the exposed, naturally jagged rock outcropping.
But Martin, CEO of Grove-based Terra Group , first came in for a dressing-down from one frustrated member of the city historic and environmental preservation board at a hearing on the issue last week…