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Special magistrate schedules new hearing for Lantana Holdings status dispute
Summary
The Town of Loxahatchee Groves and parties in a long-running code enforcement matter involving Lantana Holdings LLC agreed to resume the case; Special Magistrate Amity Barnard set a hearing for Aug. 22, 2025, and ordered memoranda of law from both sides.
Special Magistrate Amity Barnard on Aug. 4 set a new hearing for the code-enforcement matters involving Lantana Holdings LLC, ordering both sides to file written memoranda of law before the hearing.
The hearing concerns alleged violations tied to Lantana Holdings LLC at 16169 Southern Boulevard in the Town of Loxahatchee Groves. The magistrate said an agreed stipulation is on the record but that subsequent negotiations between the town and the property owner have been “protracted and long,” and the owner had not taken a final position on resolving remaining issues.
Tanya Early, town attorney for the Town of Loxahatchee Groves, told the magistrate the town had previously filed a memorandum and asked for permission to contact the magistrate by email to schedule a special set hearing. “Without getting into details, suffice to say that those negotiations have been protracted and long, and we still don't have the final word from the land [owner],” Early said.
Cody German, attorney for the tenant at the property, said his client currently is a tenant but has an option to purchase and “is likely gonna be purchasing the property in the coming weeks,” which he said could resolve the outstanding dispute between tenant and landowner. German agreed the parties could be bound by the procedural stipulations used in prior hearings.
Barnard accepted the town’s proof of service for the status/fine-assessment hearing and ordered that both parties submit separate written memoranda of law addressing the magistrate’s prior directions. The magistrate set the next hearing for Aug. 22, 2025, at 9 a.m., and ordered the memoranda to be emailed no later than 5 p.m. on Aug. 15. Barnard also instructed the parties to copy each other on e-mail submissions for transparency.
The magistrate’s order will reflect the hearing date and the submission requirements, and Barnard said she would issue that order following the hearing. No merits rulings were made at the Aug. 4 status conference; the matter was continued to allow further negotiation and to ensure memoranda addressing the magistrate’s prior order were in the record.
