"They want me out because I am a constant reminder of how government bends over backward to favor big money instead of protecting its citizens."
The man in the little house engulfed by the biggest development in Coral Gables history — surrounded by 100-foot-tall parking garages and a 15-story hotel — has a new problem disturbing the tranquil life he once led on Coconut Grove Drive.
It’s not the bulldozers roaring by his kitchen window, cranes dangling over his barrel-tile roof, jackhammers jarring the crystal keepsakes in his china cabinet or six Porta Potties planted by his backyard patio.
No, he is no longer living in the middle of a construction zone.
Orlando Capote survived that five-year ordeal only to be bedeviled by his own carport. Specifically, the cover of his carport.
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