Court docket · 2025-000088-AP-01Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Appellate Division · Judge Daryl E. Trawick · 10 entries · no ruling on the rehearing motion as of Oct 15, 2026
- DIN 1Oct 16, 2025Acknowledgement letter mailed to parties — initial brief due Dec 25, 2025 PDF →
- DIN 2Oct 16, 2025Notice of Administrative Appeal from the Hearing Officer’s Sept 17, 2025 order PDF →
- DIN 3Oct 21, 2025Filing-fee receipt #3260021 — $281.00, administrative appeal (e-filing #233795822)
- DIN 4Oct 24, 2025Notice of Appearance — Assistant County Attorney for DERM PDF →
- DIN 5Dec 22, 2025Notice of substitution of counsel for DERM PDF →
- DIN 6Jan 16, 2026Order to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed for failure to file the initial brief PDF →
- DIN 7Jan 16, 2026Appellant’s response to the order to show cause PDF →
- DIN 8May 14, 2026Order of Dismissal for failure to file the initial brief (OR Book 35306, Page 4377) PDF →
- DIN 9May 18, 2026Appellant’s motion for rehearing, reconsideration and reinstatement of appeal PDF →
- DIN 10May 19, 2026DERM’s response in opposition to the motion PDF →
Source: Miami-Dade Clerk of Court docket for 2025-000088-AP-01, checked Oct 15, 2026. Open the case at the Clerk of Court →
- 1Notice of ViolationIssued
- 2Administrative hearingHeld
- 3Adverse decisionSept 17, 2025
- 4Appeal to Circuit CourtFiled Oct 16, 2025
- 5Appeal dismissedMay 14, 2026 · rehearing motion pending
- 6Ruling on rehearingAwaiting
The Alleged CRIME HOW DISPUTED WETLAND CLASSIFICATIONS BECOME ENFORCEMENT, MITIGATION, MONEY, AND LOSS OF PROPERTY. GOVERNMENT ACTORS EXAMINED: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY · STATE OF FLORIDA · UNITED STATES TARGET: LAS PALMAS COMMUNITYAlso known as the 8.5 Square Mile Area — a residential and agricultural community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, for which Congress specifically provided federal flood-protection and mitigation safeguards in connection with implementation of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989.
- Misclassify private land as wetlands.
- Use disputed or incomplete evidence to support enforcement.
- Issue cease-and-desist orders and Notices of Violation before the required science is established.
- Complete or supplement forms after enforcement has already begun.
- Pressure owners into Class IV permits and mitigation requirements.
- Restrict the use of private property and reduce its value.
- Turn regulatory restrictions into mitigation obligations, credits, fees, and financial transactions.
- Use enforcement pressure to push landowners toward sale, acquisition, or loss of the property.
- Fail to clearly disclose the complete chain of money, credits, beneficiaries, and transfers created by the regulatory process.
THE QUESTION: WHO CREATED THE EVIDENCE, WHO CREATED THE FINANCIAL OBLIGATION, AND WHO RECEIVED THE VALUE?
Las Palmas Community: Wetland Classification, DERM Enforcement and Mitigation in Miami-Dade County — Expose the System. Force the Record. Follow the Money.
THE PARTNERSHIP.
For 100+ years, government and Wall Street have operated as one financial architecture. Government creates the power, debt, guarantees, subsidies, restrictions, and mandates; Wall Street converts them into markets, securities, credit, collateral, fees, and profit.
Environmental regulation is another layer: restrict the land, mandate mitigation, create the credit, impose the fee, manufacture financial demand.
Then fragment the accounting. Split the money, liabilities, contracts, and beneficiaries across agencies, funds, authorities, registries, and ledgers. Add political theater, debt-ceiling theater, balanced-budget theater, bureaucratic fog, and an education system that rarely teaches citizens how public finance actually works.
CREATE THE POWER. CREATE THE MARKET. MONETIZE THE OBLIGATION. FRAGMENT THE BOOKS. PROTECT THE INSTITUTIONS. PRIVATIZE THE PROFIT. SOCIALIZE THE LOSS. KEEP THE COMPLETE TRANSACTION OUT OF VIEW. TAX THE CITIZEN.
FOUR MATTERS. FOUR POINTS WHERE THE SYSTEM BECOMES VISIBLE.
These are the working examples behind the mission.
Documented mitigation money: $84,257.87 from 2 of 4 matters ($68,063.29 mitigation bond in CLIV-20240032; $16,194.58 mitigation-credit transaction in CLIV-20210057). Six further categories are not yet documented.
Bar lengths are drawn to scale. Figures come from Miami-Dade County case files, linked per line.
Not yet accounted for · 6 categoriesStatus shown per line
Two enforcement matters on two parcels produced $84,257.87. The categories above are money that moved through this community and has not yet been put on the public record. No amount is shown until a document supports it. The test for every dollar: who created the evidence, who created the financial obligation, and who received the value.
Have a record that fills a line? Send it →Original site missionFounding Purpose — Why This Site ExistsEnvironmental integrity, property rights, and accountability — and the property at the center of this case.
MiamiDade.watch was launched to expose how Miami-Dade County — through its agency DERM — has, we contend, used environmental regulations in ways that devalue land, displace lawful owners, and undermine federal protections. We believe these actions have not served the environment, but development and political convenience.
The property at the center of this case — which I can personally attest to — is held in a Florida Land Trust. It has received continuous agricultural tax exemptions for decades and is officially recognized by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as agricultural land, not wetlands.
While my direct experience involves this specific property, the pattern of enforcement across our small, rural community suggests that other agricultural landowners are being similarly and unjustly targeted. This disproportionate focus on a historically agricultural, economically marginalized area raises serious concerns about selective enforcement, unequal protection under the law, and violations of property rights, due process, and environmental justice.
The land lies within the Las Palmas Community, also known as the 8.5 Square Mile Area — a residential and agricultural community for which Congress specifically provided federal flood-protection and mitigation safeguards in connection with implementation of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-229).