Florida Senate - 2009 (NP) SB 2712
By Senator Jones
13-00308-09 20092712__
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 which 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 Statute, 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 community-wide 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 described
53 parcel:
54
55 A portion of fractional Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and
56 32, Township 32 South, Range 16 East, together with submerged
57 lands and together with unsurveyed lands, lying in Pinellas
58 County, Florida, being described as follows:
59
60 From the Southerly most corner of Lot 5, Block 23, TIERRA VERDE
61 UNIT ONE, as recorded in Plat Book 57, Pages 42 through 55,
62 Public Records of Pinellas County, Florida, as the Point of
63 Commencement; thence North 30°52'53" East, along the East line
64 of said Block 23 and the Northeasterly extension thereof,
65 1,187.95 feet to a point on the center of the main ship channel
66 of Boca Ciega Bay, the same being the City Limits of the City of
67 St. Petersburg; thence along said main ship channel of Boca
68 Ciega Bay and City Limits of the City of St. Petersburg the
69 following two courses and distances, (1) North 56°23'06" West
70 2,350.94 feet, (2) North 24°49'37" West 459.96 feet to the
71 intersection with the Pass-a-Grille Channel, the same being the
72 City Limits of the City of St. Pete Beach, said point being the
73 Point of Beginning; thence along the said Pass-a-Grille Channel
74 and the City Limits of the City of St. Pete Beach, the following
75 four courses and distances: (1) South 49°04'05" West 2,741.70
76 feet, (2) South 38°55'13" West 1,201.77 feet, (3) South
77 21°58'42" West 1,202.38 feet, (4) South 11°52'59" East 2549.64
78 feet; thence departing said Pass-a-Grille Channel and City
79 Limits of the City of St. Pete Beach, South 10°50'24" East
80 2,510.20 feet; thence South 48°30'09" East 740.07 feet; thence
81 South 03°49'00" West 2,557.86 feet; thence South 37°18'04" East
82 6,807.92 feet; thence North 88°30'47" East 173.30 feet, more or
83 less to a point on the West line of the City Limits of the City
84 of St. Petersburg; thence along said West line of the City
85 Limits of the City of St. Petersburg North 00°09'46" West
86 15,402.33 feet to a point on the aforesaid main ship channel of
87 Boca Ciega Bay; thence along said main ship channel of Boca
88 Ciega Bay continuing along the City Limits of the City of St.
89 Petersburg, the following two courses and distances: (1) North
90 56°23'06" West 2,601.89 feet, (2) North 24°49'37" West 459.96
91 feet to the Point of Beginning.
92 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.