I disagree with some of your statements, but you are mostly accurate.
In short - and somewhat in agreement - I fault the condo owners themselves for failing to involve the county. Technically, every surviving tenant and, most-pertinently, surviving members of the board/association share liability. Some reports seem to be absolving the county of liability in citation of a yet-scheduled 40-year inspection per code; we shall see in the ensuing weeks as to whether the county knew of the building deficiencies and, as I suspect, where the money flowed. Reports are that the mandated inspection ‘was underway’; how any responsible engineer could not have previously cited major structural flaws in a single visit is a bit beyond the pale, considering the photos most of us have seen. Those who inspected the building prior to its collapse share liability.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article252340108.html
I recommend anyone interested read both the article above and about Miami-Dade County’s “Unsafe Structures Board”, linked below:
I find it very difficult to believe that the county was unaware of potential structural issues with this complex.
pretty much every city employee in P&Z, etc., is home and NOT working. You can barely get plans approved; no one answers the phone, no one is in, emails don’t get returned.
this has turned into a lazy government employee disney world