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7/27/2019 City of Miami Beach Permits Accidents Waiting to Happen
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Ride or Die on South Beach
CBS4 MISSES THE BOAT ON MIAMI BEACH
Brian Williams botches Sidewalk Café Danger Report
11 November 2014
Editorial by Walter Davidsoni
MIAMI MIRROR
Miami Beach—Brian Williams came to the City of Miami Beach with his ruler to report on
Monday night’s 11P.M. news that the city has no rule requiring sidewalk café seats to be placed
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at a certain distance from curbs so patrons will not be run over by stray cars while dining, as
recently happened at the La Pizzeria de la Lemoni’s unpermitted sidewalk café corner at 4600
N.E. 2nd
in the City of Miami.
Pizzeria Lemoni Miami corner (left) Pizza Rustica Miami Beach corner with sitting ducks (right)
The key word of the Lemoni story is “corner.” As a matter of fact, the City of Miami Beach does
have such a rule applicable to the most dangerous possible placement of sidewalk café’s i.e.
near or on corners at intersections. They must be at least five feet away from corner curb cuts.
CBS4 could have easily discovered that rule by checking the online code of ordinances or by
calling Hernan Cardeno, Esq., sworn police officer, FBI liaison, and director of the city’s code
compliance department, or by reading our October 23rd Miami Mirror report, ‘City of Miami
Beach Permits Accidents Waiting to Happen – The Risk to Life and Limb May Be Worth theProfit.’
Not only does the city have a rule for the corners, where the worst accidents are most likely to
happen, maiming or killing diners and pedestrians, it actually issued a permit to Pizza Rustica to
violate the rule at the busy intersection of 9th
Street and Washington Avenue, thus placing the
public at peril while relying on insurance and royal immunity to protect the city and its officials
from liability for intentional negligence.
Not only does the Pizza Rustica sit on the corner, the street intersecting the avenue does not
run in a straight line at the intersection, hence pointing eastbound vehicles right at the sidewalk
café in an area notorious for intoxicated navigation and Wild West attitudes.
Indeed, many rules the city makes are made to be broken by means of permitted variances or
non-enforcement. That is precisely the angle of our story, illustrated by this particularly glaring
example of the city government’s discretionary arrogance.
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The CBS4 news and its investigative reporter, Brian Williams, were emailed a link to our report a
dozen hours before the televised newscast, but no reply was received, and the glaring example
of negligence was not mentioned in the newscast.
The obtuse angle of the CBS4 report, that the public is not adequately protected from
careening cars while dining on county sidewalks, is not unfashionable or badly made. Yet our
acute angle gives the lie to a crucial detail of their report on the beach, and it points out the
persistent problem with its government despite glowing publicity rendered to the resounding
applause of a complacent majority that unwittingly put its safety and welfare in negligent and
even corrupt hands because its members have not been injured, maimed, or killed, at least not
yet.
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‘City of Miami Beach Permits Accidents Waiting to Happen – The Risk to Life and Limb May Be
Worth the Profit.’ can be viewed at:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/244120117/City-of-Miami-Beach-Permits-Accidents-Waiting-to-
Happen
i Walter Davidson is the editorializing nom de plume of David Arthur Walters aka The Miami Mirror. His references
to “we” and “our” are rhetorically made since he is a minority of one, yet with a presumption that other ones
within the Kierkegaardian Category of One may agree.