Lee County 2 03 27 PDF
Lee County 2 03 27 PDF
RE:
Your Failure to Reply and/or Settle the Allegations and Issues of Interest Raised;
Dear Ann:
Thank you for our follow-up conversation on Friday, March 23, 2007, regarding the
correspondence with your Office pertaining to Lot 15A on Cayo Costa Island, Lee
County, Florida.
You stated that at that time the Lee County Attorney’s Office was unable to provide and
substantiate the requested documentation of its alleged ownership and/or interest
claims, that your Office was continuing to research the matter, and that your Office was
to provide me with an official answer on Monday, March 26, 2007.
1. Please note that Official Record 2967, Pages 1084, 1085, and 1086 [Number
4400351] state:
“COUNTY DEED
(Statutory)
This Deed, executed this 24th day of March, A.D., 1998, by LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA, A
Office Box 398, Fort Myers, Florida 33902-0398 first party, to Alice M.S. Robinson,
whose address is 4201 North Seminole Avenue, No. 2516, Tampa, Florida 33601,
second party …
… has granted, bargained and sold to the said second party, its heirs and assigns
forever, the following described land, lying and being in Lee County, Florida:
12-44-20-01-00016.0220; 12-44-20-01-00042.038A.]
This grant conveys only the interest of the County and its Board of County
Commissioners in the property herein described, and shall not be deemed to warrant
in its name by its Board of County Commissioners acting by the Chairman or Vice
“All of the first party’s interest, if any, in those certain lands which have accreted
to the following described lots, said lots being located within that certain
subdivision known as Second Revised Plat of Cayo Costa, according to the map
or plat thereof filed and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Lee County, Florida, in Plat Book 3, Page 25, Public Records of Lee County,
2. Hereby, Plaintiff again advises Lee County that riparian rights only exist for riparian
owners. Crutchfield v. F. A. Sebring Realty Co., 69 So.2d 328 (Fla. 1954). Riparian
rights arise out of ownership of riparian upland and are appurtenant to and
an unconstitutional taking.
Florida’s law is clear that riparian rights cannot be severed from riparian uplands
absent an agreement with the riparian owner, not even by the power of eminent
domain. See Belvedere Dev. Corp. v. Dept. of Transp., 476 So.2d 649 (Fla. 1985).
4. Riparian rights are appurtenant to and inseparable from riparian land, and riparian
rights ordinarily pass with a grant of the abutting upland property. Conveyance of
title entitles the grantee riparian to riparian rights running with the land whether or
not they are mentioned in the deed. See Fla. Stat. 253.141(1); see also Board of
Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund v. Sand Key Associates, Ltd., 512
claim any.
• Please disclose any and all “state of facts concerning the same [properties
• Please identify accreted lands and abutting uplands and explain how
Please note that Blocks 13 and 16 are altogether “dry” and “non-riparian” as per the
determination of a riparian right of ingress and egress for private residential dock
slips are based upon the number of linear feet of riparian shoreline. Private
residential docks complying with all provisions of the standards and criteria of
docking facilities, as listed in Fla. Admin. Code Rule 18-20.004(5) are deemed to
satisfy the public interest requirement of Fla. Admin. Code Rule 18-20.004(1)(b).
ingress and egress appear to interfere with Plaintiff’s riparian rights and to be
discriminatory.
6. Relief from an agency action obstructing riparian rights may be brought in the form
Repeatedly, you have obstructed my riparian rights, including your categorical denial
of a boat dock permit. Last week, Mr. A. Mead again categorically denied my riparian
7. It has been the admitted strategy of the Government to acquire land and ‘extinguish
and shift Island paths and/or roadways’ thereby “land-locking” the few remaining
private properties on Cayo Costa Island. See Florida Cabinet Meeting Transcripts
Lots 12A and 11A to the North, Lot 14A to the East, Lots 13A, and 10A to the North-
East, Lots 17A, 18A, 21A, 22A, 25A, 26A, 29A, 30A, and 33A to the South-East, and
Lots 16A, 19A, and 20A to the South. The alleged Owner or Record of these Lots
“landlocked”.
8. Another admitted and executed Government strategy has been to relocate and shift
Cayo Costa Island paths onto Government property. One example is property 12-44-
traffic onto Government land, where the Government can block traffic, access, and
in many cases.
HEREBY, Plaintiff demands that Lee County immediately invalidate any and all
Official Records in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lee County.
S /Jorg Busse/
Plaintiff Riparian Landowner and Boat Dock Applicant
239-595-7074
ENCLOSURES
Governor Bush: “In this case we have private [Cayo Costa] property owners; but it is
the intention to buy the entire island?”
Ms. Armstrong: “That is our goal. We have not been totally successful in buying. You
see the map; there are owners in there. Until you get rid of all those other
owners, we would not go after extinguishing all those roads. Now these are not
publicly dedicated roads. So there is not something for us really to extinguish. They
are coming into us and saying, I own property here; you own everything around it. I
have a statutory right to get to my property…”
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