City of North Port v. Consolidated Minerals, Inc.

THREADGILL, Judge.

Appellants challenge a final order of the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) which closed a file on an application for a water use permit when Con*486solidated Minerals, Inc. filed a notice that it was withdrawing the application. We reverse.

Consolidated applied to SWFWMD for a revised individual water use permit in 1991. SWFWMD issued a notice of intent to issue the permit and prepared a proposed draft of the permit subject to certain conditions. Both Consolidated and opponents of the permit, the City of North Port and Environmental Confederation of Southwest…