District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of a petition for certiorari review of an annexation ordinance passed by defendant-city is quashed and remanded where the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law in its findings regarding contiguousness and a pre-annexation agreement between defendant and a landowner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2006
• Published 01/20/2006

Judges

• THOMPSON, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randell H. Rowe, III, and Michael G. Dyer, Assistant County Attorney, DeLand, for Petitioner., Lonnie N. Groot of Stenstrom, McIntosh, Colbert, Whigham, Reischmann & Partlow, P.A., Sanford, Amicus Curiae, for City of Lake Helen., Albert J. Hadeed of Albert J. Hadeed, P.A., Flagler Beach, Amicus Curiae, for Environmental Council of Volusia and Flagler Counties, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• L. Roland Blossom, City Attorney and George Trovato, Assistant City Attorney, Deltona, for Respondent, City of Deltona., C. Allen Watts of Cobb & Cole, P.A., DeLand, for Respondent, Leffler Co.