Case Name: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, etc., Petitioner, v. CITY OF COCOA, Florida, etc., Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2007-01-05
Citations: 953 So. 2d 8
Docket Number: No. 5D06-125
Parties: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, etc., Petitioner, v. CITY OF COCOA, Florida, etc., Respondent.
Judges: GRIFFIN and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 953
Pages: 8–11

Head Matter:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, etc., Petitioner, v. CITY OF COCOA, Florida, etc., Respondent.
No. 5D06-125.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Jan. 5, 2007.
Rehearing Denied April 2, 2007.
Scott Knox, County Attorney, Office of the County Attorney, Viera, for Petitioner.
Anthony A. Garganese, City Attorney, The City of Cocoa, Cocoa, and Erin J. O’Leary of Brown, Garganese, Weiss & D’Agresta, P.A., Orlando, for Respondent, The City of Cocoa, Florida.
Thomas A. Cloud, Tracy A. Marshall and Earl M. Crittenden, Jr., of Gray Robinson, P.A., Orlando, for Respondent, Florida Space Needle, LLC.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petition for writ of certiorari is denied. See Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kaklamanos, 843 So.2d 885, 889 (Fla.2003) ("A district court should exercise its discretion to grant certiorari review only when there has been a violation of a clearly established principle of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice.") (emphasis in original).
The annexation in this case consisted of ten parcels of property totaling 757.29 acres. The City has been the recognized utility provider for the annexation area for almost fifty years, pursuant to a special act of the Florida Legislature. Property owners for nine of the parcels, totaling 754.97 acres (or 99.7 percent of the overall annexation area), consented to the annexation. Additionally, the entire annexation area is slated for urban development under the County's land use plan and is completely surrounded by property already developed for urban purposes.
"Certiorari is not used to grant a second appeal or redress mere legal error; rather, it provides a safety net to correct a miscarriage of justice when no other remedy is available." See County of Volusia v. City of Deltona, 925 So.2d 340, 343 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006). Finding no miscarriage of justice under the facts presented, we deny certiorari review. In so ruling, we note that we do not necessarily disagree with Judge Evander's analysis of section 171.043, Florida Statutes (2003). Rather, we find that the County has failed to demonstrate a miscarriage of justice sufficient to warrant the exercise of our discretionary certiorari jurisdiction.
CERTIORARI DENIED.
GRIFFIN and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
EVANDER, J., dissents, with opinion.