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Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier
[T]here are two significant problems: (1) enforcement and (2) precedent.
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I would add a third...no legal authority: based upon my review of the Florida statute cited and the Florida Attorney General's Opinion ( re Cape Coral), it would appear that, absent compelling legal arguments to the contrary, Sumter County does not have the legal authority to enact such a restriction on the use of a public street. I have asked this question of the five county commissioners and have received no legal basis for the decision. While I sympathize with the plight of the residents of Oak Forest, any remedy fashioned (and they deserve to have one) must be within the legal authority of the government enacting it.
John