Florida Senate - 2010 (NP) SB 2754
By Senator Fasano
11-00726B-10 20102754__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the East Lake Tarpon Community,
3 Pinellas County; providing requirements for the
4 municipal annexation of the East Lake Tarpon
5 Community; requiring a referendum of the electors
6 within the community prior to such annexation;
7 describing the community boundaries; providing an
8 effective date.
9
10 WHEREAS, the East Lake Tarpon Community is an area
11 surrounded on three sides by a lake and the county lines of
12 Pasco and Hillsborough Counties, situated in the northeastern
13 area of unincorporated Pinellas County, and
14 WHEREAS, East Lake Tarpon was developed as a predominantly
15 residential community, with most of the residents residing
16 within the deed-restricted communities of the East Lake Tarpon
17 area, and
18 WHEREAS, the residents of East Lake Tarpon are developing a
19 common vision of East Lake Tarpon’s future as a family oriented,
20 residential, scenic community where small businesses and
21 commercial uses serve to complement and support area residents,
22 and the community is working with Pinellas County to adopt an
23 East Lake Tarpon Community Overlay within the Pinellas County
24 Comprehensive Plan that reflects the community’s vision, and
25 WHEREAS, the residents of the East Lake Tarpon Community
26 pay ad valorem taxes to support and receive fire control
27 services from the East Lake Tarpon Fire Control District, NOW,
28 THEREFORE,
29
30 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
31
32 Section 1. Annexation of territory by municipalities;
33 communitywide referendum required.—Notwithstanding any other
34 provision of law, a municipality within Pinellas County may not
35 annex any unincorporated territory situated within the defined
36 boundaries of the East Lake Tarpon Community on the effective
37 date of this act unless the annexation of all of the territory
38 within the boundaries of the East Lake Tarpon Community is
39 approved by a majority vote of the electors of the East Lake
40 Tarpon Community voting in a referendum called for that purpose.
41 Section 2. Legal description; East Lake Tarpon Community.
42 All those lands situate, lying, and being within the herein
43 described parcel:
44 The East Lake Tarpon Community is described by the following:
45 Begin at the Northeast Corner of Section 1, Township
46 27 South, Range 16 East, Pinellas County, Florida;
47 thence run south along the said East Section Line
48 (Hillsborough/Pinellas County Line) to the East-West
49 Half Section Line of Section 1, Township 28 South,
50 Range 16 East; thence West along said Half Section
51 Line to the Easterly right-of-way Line of Florida
52 Power Corporation; thence South along said right-of
53 way Line to the East-West Half Section Line of Section
54 12, Township 28 South, Range 16 East; thence East
55 along said Half Section Line to the Northeast Corner
56 of Florida Power Corporation Substation; thence South
57 along the East Line of said Substation to the South
58 Section Line of said Section 12; thence East to the
59 East Section Line of Section 13, Township 28 South,
60 Range 16 East (Hillsborough/Pinellas County Line);
61 thence South along said County Line to the South Line
62 of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of said
63 Section 13; thence West along said Line to the
64 Westerly right-of-way Line of Florida Power
65 Corporation; thence North along said right-of-way line
66 to the North Section Line of said Section 13; thence
67 West along said Section Line to the North-South Center
68 Section Line of Section 12, Township 28 South, Range
69 16 East; thence North along said Center Section Line
70 to the South Right-of-way line of Florida Power
71 Corporation; thence West along said right-of-way Line
72 to the West Line of Section 11, township 28 South,
73 Range 16 East; thence North along said West Line to
74 the North right-of-way Line of said Florida Power
75 Corporation; thence East along said right-of-way Line
76 to the East Line of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest
77 1/4 of said Section 12; thence North along said
78 Easterly Line to the East-West Centerline of said
79 Section 12, thence East along said Centerline to the
80 West Line of the East 1/2 of the East 1/2 of the
81 Northwest 1/4 of said Section 12; thence North along
82 said line to the North Section Line of said Section
83 12; thence East along said line to the North-South
84 Centerline of Section 1, Township 28 South, Range 16
85 East; thence North along said line a distance of
86 491.97 feet; thence North 75 00'00" east to the West
87 right-of-way Line of Florida Power Corporation; thence
88 North along said right-of-way Line to the East-West
89 Centerline of said Section 1; thence West along said
90 line a distance of 1,837.78 feet; thence North to the
91 South Line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4
92 of said Section 1; thence West along said line to the
93 West Line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of
94 said Section 1; thence North along said line to the
95 North Line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4
96 of Section 36, Township 27 South, Range 16 East;
97 thence West along said line to the North-South
98 Centerline of Section 35, Township 27 South, Range 16
99 East; thence South along said line to the South
100 Section Line of said Section 35; thence West along
101 said Section Line to the Southwest corner of said
102 Section 35; thence South along the West Section Line
103 of Sections 2 and Section 11, Township 28 South, Range
104 16 East to the North Section Line of Section 15,
105 Township 28 South, Range 16 East; thence West along
106 the North Line of said Section 15 to the North-South
107 Centerline of said Section; thence South along said 15
108 Centerline to the northerly right-of-way line of Tampa
109 Road (S.R. 584); thence in a Northwesterly direction
110 along said right-of-way line to the Southerly Line of
111 Florida Power Corporation; thence Southwesterly along
112 said Southerly Line to the centerline of the Lake
113 Tarpon Outfall Canal; thence Northerly along the
114 centerline of the Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal into Lake
115 Tarpon to its North-South Centerline; thence Northerly
116 along the North-South Centerline of Lake Tarpon to the
117 City Limit Line of the City of Tarpon Springs on the
118 Northern shoreline of Lake Tarpon; thence along the
119 City Limit Line of Tarpon Springs around its Easterly
120 point above Lake Tarpon and then Westerly to the
121 North-South Centerline of Salt Lake; thence northerly
122 along the North-South Centerline of Salt Lake to the
123 Centerline of the Anclote River; thence Northeasterly
124 along the Centerline of the Anclote River to the
125 Pasco-Pinellas County Line; thence East along
126 the Pasco/Pinellas County Line to the Point of
127 Beginning.
128 LESS any areas annexed into the corporate municipal
129 limits of Oldsmar or Tarpon Springs.
130 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.