St. Johns County Commissioners today authorized filing of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of legislation inserted in 2012 by Florida Senate President Pro Tempore MICHAEL BENNETT. BENNETT''s sneak attack on St. Johns County took the form of -- last minute special legislation benefiting one developer, violating St. Johns County's rights to "local control" over land use, affecting only one 607 acre plot near Switzerland.
Record article
and editorial.
There will be a meeting with the developer and County staff on March 25, 2013. Both the Florida Association of Cities and Florida Association of Counties went along with the deal, throwing St. Johns County to the wolves. Before anyone pays any more dues to those august organizations, public officials need to question those Tallahassee organizations about their ethics and morality.
For more on BENNETT's folly, see Record article
and editorial, and prior blog story here.
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