This article in the Pensacola News Journal outlines why the 4 lane for Perdido Key will likely hit no more speed bumps. The Supreme Court decided not to even give the case another hearing.
TALLAHASSEE -- A Pensacola veterinarian's legal fight against an Escambia County tax plan to widen a road has ended.
The Florida Supreme Court denied a rehearing in Gregg Strand's court case, thus ending a back-and-forth battle that at one time concluded government borrowing for infrastructure projects had to go to a public vote.
In September the high court reversed itself from a year earlier and ruled against Strand. In a one-page order today, the court said a motion to rehear the case failed to get four justices to agree to it.
A 2007 unanimous decision sided with Strand's challenge of the Escambia commission's authority to issue $135 million in bonds for road widening on Perdido Key. But that decision had wide-ranging implications for community redevelopment agencies around the state and they, along with Escambia County and the Florida Association of Counties, successfully appealed the decision.
Earlier this year five justices changed direction and issued a new opinion in the case.
This year's decision now stands. The controlling decision says tax-increment financing plans -- schemes to borrow money now and pay it off with the increased property taxes brought about by improved values -- can be approved without a public vote.
To give you and idea of what would be the results, these photos show a before and after:
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