Opinion

Homich v. Lake County School Board

  • 779 So. 2d 567
  • 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 988
  • 2001 WL 85536
Court
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Filed
Feb 2, 2001
Status
Published
Author
Cobb
On the bench
Cobb, Griffin, Thompson
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 0.8%

The opinion

COBB, J.

This is the administrative appeal of a decision by the Lake County School Board to demolish several historical buildings on the Roseborough Elementary School campus in Mount Dora, Florida. Appellants are residents of the City of Mount Dora who oppose the School Board’s decision to tear down the buildings.

The decision to tear down Roseborough Elementary has been the subject of long and apparently heated debate in the Mount Dora community. Since 1996, there have been three separate votes by the School Board to tear down the school. The first two votes were rescinded; the final vote was not. It is the latter vote which is the subject of this appeal. The five buildings that are the subject of this litigation were built by the City of Mount Dora between 1926 and 1934. The buildings are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Sites. They are vacant, having been declared unsafe by the State Department of Education.

The appellants have failed to, show an abuse of discretion by the Lake County School Board, which apparently complied with the procedural steps required by the State Requirements for Educational Facilities and Chapter 120, Florida Statutes. Federal cases, federal statutes and federal administrative rules relied upon by the appellants are not applicable to this case. We affirm on the authority of Jones v. Braxton, 379 So.2d 115 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979).

AFFIRMED.

THOMPSON, C.J., concurs.

GRIFFIN, J., dissents with opinion.

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