Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Jul. 18, 2017
The issues in this case are: 1) whether the Petitioner, Southport Ranch, LLC (Petitioner), is a substantially affected person with standing to challenge the Respondent, South Florida Water Management District’s (District) intent to issue Environmental Resource Permit (Mitigation Banking) Number 49-00007-M to the Respondents, D.R. Horton, Inc., and Osceola County (Applicants); and 2) the number of potential mitigation bank credits that the District should award to the Applicants.Petitioner did not carry its burden of proving that Respondents were not entitled to the proposed amount of mitigation credits. Respondents carried their burden of showing entitlement to the requested mitigation bank permit.
