Key Colony No. 1 Condominium Ass'n v. Village of Key Biscayne

The appellants filed suit challenging the assessments imposed upon them by the Village of Key Biscayne to fund a stormwater *780utility. See generally § 403.0893, Pla.Stat. (1993). The appellants claimed that Village ordinance 93-11 violated Florida Statute section 403.031(17)’s requirement that assessments be made based upon relative contribution to need. In order to have prevailed below, the appellants needed to overcome a presumption of correctness of the Village’s findings underlying the assessment, and needed to do so by strong, direct, clear, and positive proof. See City of Boca Raton v.…