STUART — Stuart voters will decide in November whether a roughly two-acre parcel connected to Haney Creek should remain available for commercial use or instead be converted to conservation.
The city previously put the land before voters in 2011 as part of a plan to generate revenue for Haney Creek Preserve. City Attorney Lee Baggett said changing that decision requires another referendum.
“Back in 2011, we put this issue out to the voters and they voted to lease out this approximate two-acre parcel for commercial purposes to help fund the Haney Creek Preserve. In order to undo that, we’ve got to go back to the voters to seek rescission of that prior referendum and instead to convert the two acres into conservation,” Baggett said…