View for sale: $30,000 New owner of a lake fences it off when homeowners wouldn't pay.

St. Petersburg Times ^ | May 14, 2002 | ROBERT FARLEY

[tacticalogic]

Your idea seems fine to me. I know that the town where I live required notice to neighbors for zoning variances and other building projects. However, I'd also guess that there is no law currently requiring the type of notice you've suggested.

As others on this thread have suggested, constructive notice via publication all too often is not notice at all.

I think the question shouldn't be what the law requires, but what the law allows. While it is not the government's job to keep you from making bad decisions, the officials do have a responsibility to the residents and community collectively. The end result of their actions is a bunch of po'd homeowners, some ugly fences, and a reduction in property values in a high-end neighborhood, with a resultant decrease in the tax base. All for $1,000.00, less the overhead of the paperwork and having the sale. They apparently knew about Connoly and his tactics, and had been warned about selling undeveloped property but did only what the law required of them, to the detriment of their constituents and community.

[Roscoe]

anti-social behavior will lead to the development of a just system of laws.

Necessitate.

The greater the immoral behavior of the libertines, the greater the burdens of the law inevitably becomes.

Simple.

[Roscoe]

Perhaps

http://www.florida.ctic.com/guide/Guide_planned_unit_development.htm

[ctdonath2]

That post is just a tad bit ambiguous.

Follow the subthread and it will be clear.

[CoolH2OH]

If no one pays, all he has is land that he can't really do anything with. The key is for the residents to stick together on this and wait until he gets his tax bill.

[Lazamataz]

You have a stick-to-it nature that I respect. Amazing, you are going through each post!

[tpaine]

I'm sure you have the illusion that you made a point.

---- But I can also assure you that NO ONE else at FR knows what that point might be.

[A CA Guy]

BL if it would be in an association with control and fees if that was in any way the case. There is no such thing as a common where nobody is resposible for it unless it is a public land where the Feds or State control it. It was obviously private and I bet some around the lake knew it was for sale and didn't try to purchase it. The wise move would have been to buy it, stock it full of fish as your private lake and get permission to build a dock if you could. I don't know if there were restrictions to using it as a private lake after it was purchased.