Appeals Court Rejects Pinecrest Lakes Developer's Plea

JENSEN BEACH, FL-A state appeals court has rejected a developer’s bid to ensure that the state Supreme Court will consider a precedent-setting case in which the developer was ordered to tear down five new apartment buildings in Pinecrest Lakes, a subdivision of Jensen Beach 100 miles north of Downtown Miami.

The original ruling was handed down in 1999 by a circuit court judge and upheld by the Fourth District Court of Appeal three months ago. Developer Thomas Thomson is appealing the case to the Florida Supreme Court, but there is no guarantee that the court will accept the case.

So last week, Thomson requested that the Fourth District Court of Appeal ask the Supreme Court to consider the case as one of “great public importance.”