HB 1375

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Tierra Verde Community,
3	Pinellas County; providing requirements for the
4	municipal annexation of the community; requiring a
5	referendum of the electors within the community prior
6	to such annexation; describing the community
7	boundaries; providing an effective date.
8
9	WHEREAS, Tierra Verde is a group of small barrier islands
10	situated in the southern area of unincorporated Pinellas County,
11	served by a single two-lane bridge crossing the Intracoastal
12	Waterway from St. Petersburg, and surrounded by navigable state
13	waters, and
14	WHEREAS, Tierra Verde was developed as a predominantly
15	residential community, with most of the residents residing
16	within the deed-restricted community of the Tierra Verde
17	Community Association, which includes the designated
18	neighborhoods of Entrada, Monte Cristo, Pinellas Bayway, Sands
19	Point, East Shore, and West Shore, and
20	WHEREAS, the majority of the neighborhoods of Tierra Verde
21	are part of a master community association that provides and
22	maintains services, functions, and amenities for the residents
23	of Tierra Verde, and
24	WHEREAS, the residents of Tierra Verde have developed a
25	common vision of Tierra Verde's future as a family-oriented,
26	residential island community where small businesses and
27	commercial uses serve to complement and support island
28	residents; and, in recognition thereof, Pinellas County has
29	adopted a Tierra Verde Community Overlay within the Pinellas
30	County Comprehensive Plan that reflects the community's vision,
31	and
32	WHEREAS, the residents of the Tierra Verde Community pay ad
33	valorem taxes to support and receive fire control services from
34	the Tierra Verde Fire Control District, and
35	WHEREAS, s. 171.031(11), Florida Statutes, states that a
36	special act may prohibit the annexation of territory that is
37	separated from the annexing municipality by a body of water or
38	watercourse, NOW, THEREFORE,
39
40	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
41
42	Section 1.  Annexation of territory by municipalities;
43	communitywide referendum required.--Notwithstanding any other
44	provision of law, a municipality within Pinellas County may not
45	annex any unincorporated territory situated within the defined
46	boundaries of the Tierra Verde Community on the effective date
47	of this act unless the annexation of all of the territory within
48	the boundaries of the Tierra Verde Community is approved by a
49	majority vote of the electors of the Tierra Verde Community
50	voting in a referendum called for that purpose.
51	Section 2.  Legal description; Tierra Verde Community.--All
52	those lands situate, lying, and being within the herein
53	described parcel:
54
55	A portion of fractional Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29,
56	30, 31, and 32, Township 32 South, Range 16 East,
57	together with submerged lands and together with
58	unsurveyed lands, lying in Pinellas County, Florida,
59	being described as follows:
60
61	From the Southerly most corner of Lot 5, Block 23,
62	TIERRA VERDE UNIT ONE, as recorded in Plat Book 57,
63	Pages 42 through 55, Public Records of Pinellas
64	County, Florida, as the Point of Commencement; thence
65	North 30°52'53" East, along the East line of said
66	Block 23 and the Northeasterly extension thereof,
67	1,187.95 feet to a point on the center of the main
68	ship channel of Boca Ciega Bay, the same being the
69	City Limits of the City of St. Petersburg; thence
70	along said main ship channel of Boca Ciega Bay and
71	City Limits of the City of St. Petersburg the
72	following two courses and distances, (1) North
73	56°23'06" West 2,350.94 feet, (2) North 24°49'37" West
74	459.96 feet to the intersection with the Pass-a-Grille
75	Channel, the same being the City Limits of the City of
76	St. Pete Beach, said point being the Point of
77	Beginning; thence along the said Pass-a-Grille Channel
78	and the City Limits of the City of St. Pete Beach, the
79	following four courses and distances: (1) South
80	49°04'05" West 2,741.70 feet, (2) South 38°55'13" West
81	1,201.77 feet, (3) South 21°58'42" West 1,202.38 feet,
82	(4) South 11°52'59" East 2549.64 feet; thence
83	departing said Pass-a-Grille Channel and City Limits
84	of the City of St. Pete Beach, South 10°50'24" East
85	2,510.20 feet; thence South 48°30'09" East 740.07
86	feet; thence South 03°49'00" West 2,557.86 feet;
87	thence South 37°18'04" East 6,807.92 feet; thence
88	North 88°30'47" East 173.30 feet, more or less to a
89	point on the West line of the City Limits of the City
90	of St. Petersburg; thence along said West line of the
91	City Limits of the City of St. Petersburg North
92	00°09'46" West 15,402.33 feet to a point on the
93	aforesaid main ship channel of Boca Ciega Bay; thence
94	along said main ship channel of Boca Ciega Bay
95	continuing along the City Limits of the City of St.
96	Petersburg, the following two courses and distances:
97	(1) North 56°23'06" West 2,601.89 feet, (2) North
98	24°49'37" West 459.96 feet to the Point of Beginning.
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100	Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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