Anita Geraci-Carver
Anita Geraci-Carver served as Groveland City Attorney through the city's regulatory architecture buildout — the period when Groveland authored the Eco-Agrarian Lifestyle Code (October 2025) and entered active drafting on Community Development Code V5. Her departure on April 2, 2026 came mid-EAR-amendment cycle and mid-CDC-V5 drafting; institutional knowledge loss for the city most exposed to SB 180 (the Eco-Agrarian Code sits post-August 2024 line, vulnerable to citizen-plaintiff challenge under the statute). Her parting line on the Planning & Zoning Board record — *"All bills failed. SB 180 expires June 2026."* — confirmed the 2026 legislative repeal attempt failed and named the statutory clock the next attorney inherits.
On the record
Anita Geraci-Carver's tenure as Groveland City Attorney spanned the city's regulatory architecture buildout — Eco-Agrarian Lifestyle Code adoption October 2025, CDC V5 drafting through 2025-2026, the institutional response to SB 180's August 2024 retroactive line. Her departure mid-EAR-amendment cycle and mid-CDC-V5 drafting is operationally significant: Groveland is the city most exposed to SB 180 preemption (the Eco-Agrarian Code is post-line; CDC V5 is still being authored under the tightening clock).
The parting line on April 2, 2026 — "All bills failed. SB 180 expires June 2026" — was a substantive update on Florida's 2026 legislative session: the repeal attempt failed; the statute expires June 2026 on its own terms; the hurricane state-of-emergency continues the comp-plan freeze through that date. The next Groveland City Attorney inherits the SB 180 clock and the CDC V5 drafting under it.