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County asks city commissioners to meet Feb. 18 to try to resolve dispute over annexation ordinance 616
Summary
Gulf County representatives asked Port St. Joe commissioners to hold a joint session Feb. 18 to discuss Ordinance 616, an annexation of about 100 acres on Industrial Road, and to use the meeting to avoid a statutorily required conflict assessment and potential litigation.
Port St. Joe commissioners agreed Feb. 4 to set a joint meeting with Gulf County for 9 a.m. Feb. 18 to discuss Ordinance 616, the proposed annexation of roughly 100 acres in the city's industrial park, after county counsel said the county intends to pursue the dispute process in Florida Statute 164.
Jeremy Novak, attorney for the Gulf County Commission, told the Port St. Joe board that the county had adopted a resolution and served notice after the city completed a first reading and advertised Ordinance 616. "The county now is posture to sue the city of Fort St. Joe and stop an annexation of a hundred acres of property in Industrial Park," Novak said,…
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