{"id":307069,"date":"2026-06-14T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307069\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:53:09","slug":"miami-dade-wins-lawsuit-over-zoo-miami-development-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307069\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade wins lawsuit over Zoo Miami development | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A circuit court judge has ruled in favor of Miami-Dade County in a legal dispute over a proposed theme park development near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoomiami.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zoo Miami,<\/a> ending a case that drew scrutiny over its potential environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>The Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit granted the county&#8217;s motion for summary judgment and rescinded the lease agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambertadvisory.com\/work\/miamiwilds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Wilds, LLC,<\/a> closing the case.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling upheld the county&#8217;s position that the project conflicted with public park purposes deed restrictions on the county-owned land adjacent to the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Daniella Levine Cava <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/release.page?Mduid_release=rel1781298501317752#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20are%20pleased,of%20County%20property.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0she was pleased with the court&#8217;s ruling and the decision allows the county to continue protecting natural resources and managing public land responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>Court rules for county in Zoo Miami development dispute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A circuit court judge has ruled in favor of Miami-Dade County in a legal dispute over a proposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128288,28,126,123,125,124,128282,128284,128286,11740,128283,128285,128287],"class_list":["post-307069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-environmental-lawsuit","tag-florida","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-wilds-lawsuit","tag-miami-wilds-llc-lease","tag-public-park-deed-restrictions","tag-zoo-miami","tag-zoo-miami-development","tag-zoo-miami-land-dispute","tag-zoo-miami-theme-park-rejected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}