Bill Text: FL H1343 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Community Redevelopment

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H1343 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H1343-Introduced.html

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HB 1343

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to community redevelopment; amending s.
3	163.340, F.S.; expanding the definition of the term
4	"blighted area" to include land previously used as a
5	military facility; providing an effective date.
6
7	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9	Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 163.340, Florida
10	Statutes, is amended to read:
11	163.340  Definitions.-The following terms, wherever used or
12	referred to in this part, have the following meanings:
13	(8)  "Blighted area" means an area in which there are a
14	substantial number of deteriorated, or deteriorating structures,
15	in which conditions, as indicated by government-maintained
16	statistics or other studies, are leading to economic distress or
17	endanger life or property, and in which two or more of the
18	following factors are present:
19	(a)  Predominance of defective or inadequate street layout,
20	parking facilities, roadways, bridges, or public transportation
21	facilities;
22	(b)  Aggregate assessed values of real property in the area
23	for ad valorem tax purposes have failed to show any appreciable
24	increase over the 5 years prior to the finding of such
25	conditions;
26	(c)  Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy,
27	accessibility, or usefulness;
28	(d)  Unsanitary or unsafe conditions;
29	(e)  Deterioration of site or other improvements;
30	(f)  Inadequate and outdated building density patterns;
31	(g)  Falling lease rates per square foot of office,
32	commercial, or industrial space compared to the remainder of the
33	county or municipality;
34	(h)  Tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the
35	fair value of the land;
36	(i)  Residential and commercial vacancy rates higher in the
37	area than in the remainder of the county or municipality;
38	(j)  Incidence of crime in the area higher than in the
39	remainder of the county or municipality;
40	(k)  Fire and emergency medical service calls to the area
41	proportionately higher than in the remainder of the county or
42	municipality;
43	(l)  A greater number of violations of the Florida Building
44	Code in the area than the number of violations recorded in the
45	remainder of the county or municipality;
46	(m)  Diversity of ownership or defective or unusual
47	conditions of title which prevent the free alienability of land
48	within the deteriorated or hazardous area; or
49	(n)  Governmentally owned property with adverse
50	environmental conditions caused by a public or private entity.
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52	However, the term "blighted area" also means any area in which
53	at least one of the factors identified in paragraphs (a) through
54	(n) is are present and all taxing authorities subject to s.
55	163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal agreement or
56	agreements with the agency or by resolution, that the area is
57	blighted. Such agreement or resolution shall only determine only
58	that the area is blighted. The term also includes an area that
59	was previously used as a military facility, is undeveloped, and
60	consists of land that the Federal Government declared surplus
61	within the preceding 20 years. For purposes of qualifying for
62	the tax credits authorized in chapter 220, "blighted area" means
63	an area as defined in this subsection.
64	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.