Pinellas County/St. Pete remain deadlocked on Tierra Verde

JANUARY 14, 2009

Pinellas County and St. Petersburg officials met briefly this morning to resolve the dispute over the city's annexation of 28 acres of commercial land on Tierra Verde. County planning director Brian Smith said the meeting, held in Clearwater, lasted 20 minutes and the two sides got nowhere.

Smith said the county offered to accept an all-or-nothing approach in which the city claimed the entirety of Tierra Verde rather than a portion. As expected, Smith said, city officials balked.

"It was agreed there was no way to resolve the conflict administratively," he said.

Within the next few days, a meeting between the County Commission and City Council will be scheduled, another formal step in the process. If there's no resolution, a mediator gets involved. If the the two camps remain at an impasse, the issue will then head to the courts.

Will Van Sant, Times staff writer

Posted by Times Editor at 12:27:20 pm on January 14, 2009 in

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