Rustic Oaks Community Development District
The Rustic Oaks Community Development District is a local, special-purpose government entity authorized by Chapter 190 of the Florida Statutes as amended, and established on July 13, 2021 by the City Council for the City of Venice, Sarasota County, Florida, Ordinance No. 2021-20 as an alternative method of planning, acquiring, operating and maintaining community-wide improvements in planned communities.
The Rustic Oaks CDD is located entirely within unincorporated Sarasota County, Florida and covers approximately 302.796± acres of land, more or less. The District consists of two parcels, generally located at the intersection of Rustic & Ranch Road, east of I‐75. The South Parcel is located on the South side of Rustic Rd, east of Cow Pen Slough. The North Parcel is located east of I‐75 and west of Cow Pen Slough.
Board of Supervisors
Garth Noble
Jessica Reschke
Martha Schiffer
Megan Germino
John Kakridas
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Ordinance
The Rustic Oaks Community Development District is a local, special-purpose government entity authorized by Chapter 190 of the Florida Statutes as amended, and established on July 13, 2021 by the City Council for the City of Venice, Sarasota County, Florida, Ordinance No. 2021-20.
The Board of Supervisors may further exercise certain additional powers to finance, fund, plan, establish, acquire, construct or reconstruct, enlarge or extend, equip, operate and maintain additional systems and facilities for: a) Water management and control for the lands within the district and to connect some or any of such facilities with roads and bridges. (b) Water supply, sewer, and wastewater management, reclamation, and reuse or any combination thereof, and to construct and operate connecting intercepting or outlet sewers and sewer mains and pipes and water mains, conduits, or pipelines in, along, and under any street, alley, highway, or other public place or ways, and to dispose of any effluent, residue, or other byproducts of such system or sewer system (c) Bridges or culverts that may be needed across any drain, ditch, canal, floodway, holding basin, excavation, public highway, tract, grade, fill, or cut and roadways over levees and embankments, and to construct any and all of such works and improvements across, through, or over any public right-of-way, highway, grade, fill, or cut.
(d)1. District roads equal to or exceeding the applicable specifications of the county in which such district roads are located; roads and improvements to existing public roads that are owned by or conveyed to the local general-purpose government, the state, or the Federal Government; street lights; alleys; landscaping; hardscaping; and the undergrounding of electric utility lines. Districts may request the underground placement of utility lines by the local retail electric utility provider in accordance with the utility’s tariff on file with the Public Service Commission and may finance the required contribution.
Ordinance No. 2021-20