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.
This is insane, board member Hugh Ryan, also a developer, told Martin while questioning why he didn't notice the obvious damage until after it was done. 'This didn't take one day to do. This has to have taken weeks of grinding.'
Martin, his lawyer and his architect said during the hearing that the contractor, whom they did not name, made an inexplicable mistake. Crews were supposed to reduce the height of a retaining wall.
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.
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