Hillsborough County - File #: V26-0010

• File #: V26-0010
• Type: Vacation of Rights-of-Way, Easements & Plats
• Status: Agenda Ready
• In control: BOCC Land Use
• On agenda: 5/12/2026
• Title: V26-0010 Public Hearing - Vacating Petition by Joseph Bernhardt and Michelle Andersen-Bernhardt to vacate a portion of a platted public drainage easement located at 2327 Platinum Drive in Sun City Center, within Folio 057472-2822. Adopt a Resolution vacating a portion of a platted public drainage easement, consisting of approximately 40.4 square feet, within Lot 6, Block 2 of the plat of Sun City Center Unit 257, Phase I, as recorded in Plat Book 75, Page 37, of the public records of Hillsborough County. The petitioners, Michelle Andersen-Bernhardt and Joseph Bernhardt have submitted this request to cure an encroachment of the westerly exterior wall of the home into the platted public drainage easement so they can complete the sale of their property. The wall was permitted and constructed in 1998. Although the County's Public Works Department Policy PWD 0001.0 2016 generally restricts the vacating of drainage easements, Public Works Stormwater does not object to the vacate request du...

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V26-0010 Public Hearing - Vacating Petition by Joseph Bernhardt and Michelle Andersen-Bernhardt

to vacate a portion of a platted public drainage easement located at 2327 Platinum Drive in Sun City

Center, within Folio 057472-2822.

Adopt a Resolution vacating a portion of a platted public drainage easement, consisting of approximately 40.4

square feet, within Lot 6, Block 2 of the plat of Sun City Center Unit 257, Phase I, as recorded in Plat Book 75,

Page 37, of the public records of Hillsborough County. The petitioners, Michelle Andersen-Bernhardt and

Joseph Bernhardt have submitted this request to cure an encroachment of the westerly exterior wall of the

home into the platted public drainage easement so they can complete the sale of their property. The wall was

permitted and constructed in 1998. Although the County’s Public Works Department Policy PWD 0001.0 2016

generally restricts the vacating of drainage easements, Public Works Stormwater does not object to the vacate

request due to the relatively small area requested to be vacated - the petitioner is requesting to reduce the

10-foot-wide easement to 9 feet for the 40-foot length of their house wall (40.4 square feet of the 1,400

square-foot total easement). County departments, agencies and utility providers have raised no objections to

this request. Estimated costs for required advertising per statute, recording fees, and processing are accounted

for in the Petitioner’s application fee of $400.