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Fla. Stat. § 177.011 (2025)

Purpose and scope of part I.

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177.011 Purpose and scope of part I.This part shall be deemed to establish consistent minimum requirements, and to create such additional powers in local governing bodies, as herein provided to regulate and control the platting of lands. This part establishes minimum requirements and does not exclude additional provisions or regulations by local ordinance, laws, or regulations.
History.s. 1, ch. 71-339; s. 33, ch. 79-164.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1983–2016 · leading case: City of Coconut Creek v. Broward Cty. Bd., 430 So. 2d 959 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983).
City of Coconut Creek v. Broward Cty. Bd., 430 So. 2d 959 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983). “Section 177.011 states that the platting statute establishes only minimum requirements to regulate and control the platting of lands and "does not exclude additional provisions or regulations by local ordinance, laws or regulations.”
Blair Nurseries, Inc. v. Baker Cnty., Florida, A Political etc., 199 So. 3d 534 (Fla. 1st DCA 2016). · cites it 6× “” § 177.011, Fla. Stat. (2014) (emphasis added).”
Kilgore v. Killearn Homes Ass'n, Inc., 676 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). “[1] The trial court granted Homes' motion, basing its decision on section 177.011, et seq., Florida Statutes, and the subdivision documents, which it found: demonstrate[d] that the previously unplatted parcel of land which was merged with Lot 14, Block W, Unit 7, Killearn…”
Orange West, Ltd. v. City of Winter Garden, 528 So. 2d 84 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988). “While the ordinances at issue in this case refer to single owners, this language refers to mobile home parks, and not the formation of a subdivision as was accomplished in the instant case when the individual lands were sold.”
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