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Special magistrate orders $250-per-day fines for Lantana Holdings after affidavit of noncompliance
Summary
The special magistrate found Lantana Holdings LLC in continued violation of two code cases and ordered fines of $250 per day for each case beginning June 27, 2023, totaling $208,250 per case to date and continuing to accrue until compliance.
Special Magistrate Amity Barnard on Thursday ordered the Town of Loxahatchee Groves to assess fines of $250 per day for two separate code cases against Lantana Holdings LLC, after the town recorded an affidavit of noncompliance showing the property remained in violation.
Barnard based the order on a recorded affidavit of noncompliance dated Sept. 17, 2025, and the First Amendment to a previously executed joint code enforcement stipulated agreement. Barnard said the fines begin on the effective date of the amendment, June 27, 2023, and continue to accrue until the property complies with town code. "Having noted that the property remains in violation . . . I will issue an order assessing fine that contains both case numbers, 23010003 and 23010006," Barnard said.
Diana Thomas, code enforcement officer for the town, told the magistrate the town recorded the affidavit of noncompliance after…
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