Florida Senate - 2010 CS for SB 2754
By the Committee on Community Affairs; and Senators Fasano,
Joyner, Jones, and Justice
578-04910-10 20102754c1
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; clarifying that
8 the act does not prohibit voluntary annexation;
9 providing an effective date.
10
11 WHEREAS, the East Lake Tarpon Community is an area
12 surrounded on three sides by a lake and the county lines of
13 Pasco and Hillsborough Counties, situated in the northeastern
14 area of unincorporated Pinellas County, and
15 WHEREAS, East Lake Tarpon was developed as a predominantly
16 residential community, with most of the residents residing
17 within the deed-restricted communities of the East Lake Tarpon
18 area, and
19 WHEREAS, the residents of East Lake Tarpon are developing a
20 common vision of East Lake Tarpon’s future as a family oriented,
21 residential, scenic community where small businesses and
22 commercial uses serve to complement and support area residents,
23 and the community is working with Pinellas County to adopt an
24 East Lake Tarpon Community Overlay within the Pinellas County
25 Comprehensive Plan that reflects the community’s vision, and
26 WHEREAS, the residents of the East Lake Tarpon Community
27 pay ad valorem taxes to support and receive fire control
28 services from the East Lake Tarpon Fire Control District, NOW,
29 THEREFORE,
30
31 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
32
33 Section 1. Annexation of territory by municipalities;
34 communitywide referendum required.—Notwithstanding any other
35 provision of law, a municipality within Pinellas County may not
36 annex any unincorporated territory situated within the defined
37 boundaries of the East Lake Tarpon Community following the
38 effective date of this act unless the annexation of all of the
39 territory within the boundaries of the East Lake Tarpon
40 Community is approved by a majority vote of the electors of the
41 East Lake Tarpon Community voting in a referendum called for
42 that purpose.
43 Section 2. Legal description; East Lake Tarpon Community.
44 All those lands situate, lying, and being within the herein
45 described parcel:
46 The East Lake Tarpon Community is described by the following:
47 Begin at the Northeast Corner of Section 1, Township
48 27 South, Range 16 East, Pinellas County, Florida;
49 thence run south along the said East Section Line
50 (Hillsborough/Pinellas County Line) to the East-West
51 Half Section Line of Section 1, Township 28 South,
52 Range 16 East; thence West along said Half Section
53 Line to the Easterly right-of-way Line of Florida
54 Power Corporation; thence South along said right-of
55 way Line to the East-West Half Section Line of Section
56 12, Township 28 South, Range 16 East; thence East
57 along said Half Section Line to the Northeast Corner
58 of Florida Power Corporation Substation; thence South
59 along the East Line of said Substation to the South
60 Section Line of said Section 12; thence East to the
61 East Section Line of Section 13, Township 28 South,
62 Range 16 East (Hillsborough/Pinellas County Line);
63 thence South along said County Line to the South Line
64 of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of said
65 Section 13; thence West along said Line to the
66 Westerly right-of-way Line of Florida Power
67 Corporation; thence North along said right-of-way line
68 to the North Section Line of said Section 13; thence
69 West along said Section Line to the North-South Center
70 Section Line of Section 12, Township 28 South, Range
71 16 East; thence North along said Center Section Line
72 to the South Right-of-way line of Florida Power
73 Corporation; thence West along said right-of-way Line
74 to the West Line of Section 11, township 28 South,
75 Range 16 East; thence North along said West Line to
76 the North right-of-way Line of said Florida Power
77 Corporation; thence East along said right-of-way Line
78 to the East Line of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest
79 1/4 of said Section 12; thence North along said
80 Easterly Line to the East-West Centerline of said
81 Section 12, thence East along said Centerline to the
82 West Line of the East 1/2 of the East 1/2 of the
83 Northwest 1/4 of said Section 12; thence North along
84 said line to the North Section Line of said Section
85 12; thence East along said line to the North-South
86 Centerline of Section 1, Township 28 South, Range 16
87 East; thence North along said line a distance of
88 491.97 feet; thence North 75 00'00" east to the West
89 right-of-way Line of Florida Power Corporation; thence
90 North along said right-of-way Line to the East-West
91 Centerline of said Section 1; thence West along said
92 line a distance of 1,837.78 feet; thence North to the
93 South Line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4
94 of said Section 1; thence West along said line to the
95 West Line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of
96 said Section 1; thence North along said line to the
97 North Line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4
98 of Section 36, Township 27 South, Range 16 East;
99 thence West along said line to the North-South
100 Centerline of Section 35, Township 27 South, Range 16
101 East; thence South along said line to the South
102 Section Line of said Section 35; thence West along
103 said Section Line to the Southwest corner of said
104 Section 35; thence South along the West Section Line
105 of Sections 2 and Section 11, Township 28 South, Range
106 16 East to the North Section Line of Section 15,
107 Township 28 South, Range 16 East; thence West along
108 the North Line of said Section 15 to the North-South
109 Centerline of said Section; thence South along said 15
110 Centerline to the northerly right-of-way line of Tampa
111 Road (S.R. 584); thence in a Northwesterly direction
112 along said right-of-way line to the Southerly Line of
113 Florida Power Corporation; thence Southwesterly along
114 said Southerly Line to the centerline of the Lake
115 Tarpon Outfall Canal; thence Northerly along the
116 centerline of the Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal into Lake
117 Tarpon to its North-South Centerline; thence Northerly
118 along the North-South Centerline of Lake Tarpon to the
119 City Limit Line of the City of Tarpon Springs on the
120 Northern shoreline of Lake Tarpon; thence along the
121 City Limit Line of Tarpon Springs around its Easterly
122 point above Lake Tarpon and then Westerly to the
123 North-South Centerline of Salt Lake; thence northerly
124 along the North-South Centerline of Salt Lake to the
125 Centerline of the Anclote River; thence Northeasterly
126 along the Centerline of the Anclote River to the
127 Pasco-Pinellas County Line; thence East along
128 the Pasco/Pinellas County Line to the Point of
129 Beginning.
130 LESS any areas annexed into the corporate municipal
131 limits of Oldsmar or Tarpon Springs.
132 Section 3. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any voluntary
133 annexation.
134 Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.