§ 505. Voluntary annexation.

(a)

(1)

The board of county commissioners may designate as "preservation districts" any areas of Orange County that are not within municipalities and that have existing historical and cohesive residential communities located within rural settlements as identified by the county's comprehensive plan (or within such successor land use categories as the board may from time to time use in the comprehensive plan).

(2)

There is created as a preservation district the "Dr. Phillips Urban Preservation District" in unincorporated Orange County. It has existing historical and residential communities which form a cohesive whole. Its boundaries and description are respectively set forth at Appendixes "A" and "B" to Orange County Ordinance No. 98-08.

(3)

There is created as a preservation district the "Taft Urban Preservation District" in unincorporated Orange County. It has existing historical and residential communities which form a cohesive whole. Its boundaries and description are respectively set forth at Appendixes "A" and "B" to Orange County Ordinance No. 2000-18.

(4)

There is created as a preservation district the "Pine Castle Urban Preservation District" in unincorporated Orange County. It has existing historical and residential communities which form a cohesive whole. Its boundaries and description are respectively set forth at Appendixes "A" and "B" to Orange County Ordinance No. 2002-11.

(b)

Voluntary annexation in a preservation district may occur only if it is approved by a majority of the board of county commissioners after an advertised public hearing and by a majority of the registered electors residing within the boundaries of the preservation district in which the property or properties lie and voting on the question. The vote by the registered electors residing within the preservation district shall be conducted in accordance with Florida laws pertaining to annexation elections, and the board of county commissioners may adopt regulations and procedures to implement this method of voluntary annexation.

(c)

The annexation requirements in subsection (b) shall not apply to the Dr. Phillips Urban Preservation District, or the Taft Urban Preservation District, or the Pine Castle Urban Preservation District if and to the extent their application would impair contractual rights under any agreement existing prior to the date the district in question was created.

(Created November 1992, Amended September 1998; Ord. No. 2000-18, § 2, 8-9-00; Ord. No. 2002-11, § 1, 8-20-02)