Planning and Zoning Board again recommends denial of proposed two‑lot subdivision at 5810 Majorie Street

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board voted Feb. 12 to recommend denial of an applicant’s request to subdivide 5810 Majorie Street into two single‑family building sites.

The board’s vote followed a contentious public hearing that included a structural assessment supplied by the applicant, a staff critique of that report, and multiple neighbors who submitted photographs and said the house was not in the condition described in the applicant’s engineering memo.

Board members and staff said the application failed a key code criterion related to voluntary demolition. The applicant argued the existing 70‑year‑old house has “significant deferred maintenance” and that demolition — which the applicant described as effectively involuntary because of age, termite damage and water intrusion — would be the practical option. The city’s acting director of development services, Douglas Ramirez, told the board the applicant’s engineering report “made many statements, but it…