PINELLAS COUNTY v. LAKE PADGETT PINES

Nos. 76-164, 76-184, 76-223, 76-248, 76-270 and 76-301.

333 So.2d 472 (1976)

PINELLAS COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, et al., Appellants, v. LAKE PADGETT PINES, a Florida Co-Partnership, and Pasco County, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Allen, Jr., St. Petersburg, and W. Gray Dunlap, County Atty., Clearwater, for Pinellas County.

Carl R. Linn, City Atty., St. Petersburg, for City of St. Petersburg.

A. Fletcher Dyches and Thomas E. Cone, Jr., of Gibbons, Tucker, McEwen, Smith, Cofer & Taub, Tampa, for Southwest Florida Water Management District.

Louis F. Hubener, III, Tallahassee, for Division of State Planning.

Louis de la Parte, Jr., Tampa, for West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority.

Roger S. Tucker, St. Petersburg, for Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council.

Barry Lessinger, Tallahassee, and Michael H. Feiler, Detroit, Mich., for appellee, Lake Padgett Pines.

Jacob D. Varn, Roger D. Schwenke, and Steven L. Sparkman, of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa, for appellee Pasco County.


SCHEB, Judge.

The central issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in holding the Cypress Creek Well Field project in Pasco County to be a "development of regional impact" as defined in Fla. Stat. Ch. 380. We hold it did and reverse.

Appellee/plaintiff Lake Padgett Pines, a Florida partnership, filed its complaint naming Pasco County and the appellants herein as defendants; the appellants being those several governmental entities involved in various...

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