Senate Bill sb3120

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SB 3120

    By Senator Crist





    12-1405-04                                          See HB 827

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Meadow Pointe and Meadow

  3         Pointe II Community Development Districts,

  4         Pasco County; requiring owners to submit

  5         building plans to the district board under

  6         certain circumstances; permitting architectural

  7         review by each district board; providing for

  8         the enforcement of deed restrictions within

  9         each district; providing penalties; excluding

10         certain villages from the provisions of this

11         act; providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,

16  the owner of a residential property within the Meadow Pointe

17  Community Development District established by Pasco County

18  Ordinance 91-15 and Meadow Pointe II Community Development

19  District established by Pasco County Ordinance 94-13, when

20  applying for a permit for the erection of any new building or

21  for alterations or additions to any existing building on a

22  residential parcel, must submit the plans as they relate to

23  the appearance, color, texture of materials, and architectural

24  design of the exterior to the appropriate district governing

25  board, and the respective board shall approve the plans or

26  recommend modifications to the plan within 30 calendar days

27  after receipt thereof, such approval and recommendations to be

28  based upon judicially reviewable standards which each board is

29  authorized to adopt by rule. If modifications are recommended,

30  the owner must then resubmit the amended plan to the district

31  governing board for approval and, if agreement cannot be

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SB 3120
    12-1405-04                                          See HB 827




 1  reached, may apply to the court of appropriate jurisdiction

 2  for relief.

 3         Section 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,

 4  each district governing board may enforce deed restrictions

 5  within its respective district, and actions at law or in

 6  equity, or both, may be used to redress alleged failure or

 7  refusal to comply with such restrictions. Each district

 8  governing board may levy fines and suspend the use of rights

 9  in accordance with the provisions of section 720.305(2),

10  Florida Statutes, as it may be amended from time to time, when

11  its rules so provide.

12         Section 3.  The Villages of Longleaf, Lettingwell,

13  Vermillion, Covina Key, and Sedgewick, which are within the

14  Meadow Pointe II Community Development District and which have

15  mandatory homeowners' associations, are excluded from the

16  provisions of this act.

17         Section 4.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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