During a tense exchange on the witness stand, developer Joseph Kavana said Monday that he was offended with a line of questioning by Daniel Abbott, a partner at Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman.
Abbott, of Fort Lauderdale, is representing the city of Hollywood in a $15 million lawsuit by Kavana’s GSK Hollywood Development Group LLC, which insists the city violated Florida’s property rights protection law and the landowner’s due process rights by slashing the maximum building height allowed in a small city corridor, effectively blocking the company’s planned high-rise project in 2005.
