ORDINANCE NO. 2016-16


§ 1. RECITALS.
§ 2. AUTHORITY.
§ 3. DISTRICT NAME.
§ 4. EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT.
§ 5. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS.
§ 6. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
§ 7. SEVERABILITY.
§ 8. INCLUSION IN THE CODE.
§ 9. FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
§ 10. EFFECTIVE DATE.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, ESTABLISHING THE AVALON GROVES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 20, LAKE COUNTY CODE, ENTITLED "SPECIAL DISTRICTS", SECTION 20-1, ENTITLED "ORDINANCES ADOPTED BY REFERENCE", TO INCORPORATE THIS ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE AVALON GROVES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INTO THE LIST AS ITEM NUMBER 20; NAMING THE DISTRICT; DESCRIBING THE EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT; GRANTING THE DISTRICT POWERS UNDER SECTION 190.012(1), FLORIDA STATUTES (2015); NAMING THE INITIAL MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT'S BOARD OF SUPERVISORS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE CODE; PROVIDING FOR FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

WHEREAS, Kolter Acquisitions, LLC ("Petitioner"), has petitioned the Board of County Commissioners of Lake County, Florida ("Board"), a political subdivision of the State of Florida, to adopt an ordinance establishing the Avalon Groves Community Development District ("District"), pursuant to Chapter 190, Florida Statutes (2015); and

WHEREAS, Petitioner is a Florida limited liability company authorized to conduct business in the State of Florida; and

WHEREAS, all interested persons and affected units of general-purpose local government were afforded an opportunity to present oral and written comments on the Petition at a duly noticed public hearing conducted by the Board on April 19, 2016; and

WHEREAS, upon consideration of the record established at that hearing, the Board determined that the statements within the Petition were true and correct, that the establishment of the District is not inconsistent with any applicable element or portion of the state comprehensive plan or the Lake County Comprehensive Plan, that the land within the District is of sufficient size, is sufficiently compact, and sufficiently contiguous to be developable as a functionally interrelated community, that the District is the best alternative available for delivering community development services and facilities to the area served by the District, that the services and facilities of the District will not be incompatible with the capacity and uses of existing local and regional community development services and facilities, and that the area to be served by the District is amenable to separate special-district governance; and

WHEREAS, establishment of the District will constitute a timely, efficient, effective, responsive and economic way to deliver community development services in the area described in the Petition.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LAKE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, THAT: