Bill Text: FL S1174 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Residential Facilities

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Status: (Passed) 2016-03-23 - Chapter No. 2016-74 [S1174 Detail]

Download: Florida-2016-S1174-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2016                                    SB 1174
       
       
        
       By Senator Diaz de la Portilla
       
       40-01647A-16                                          20161174__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to residential facilities; amending s.
    3         419.001, F.S.; specifying applicability of siting
    4         requirements for community residential homes;
    5         providing applicability with respect to local land use
    6         and zoning; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 419.001, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         419.001 Site selection of community residential homes.—
   13         (5) All distance requirements in this section shall be
   14  measured from the nearest point of the existing home or area of
   15  single-family zoning to the nearest point of the proposed home.
   16  When one home has 6 or fewer residents and another home has 7 to
   17  14 residents, the greater distance requirement applies.
   18  Distances between community residential homes shall be measured
   19  according to the requirements of this section regardless of
   20  which agency, as specified in paragraph (1)(a), serves the
   21  clients housed therein. For purposes of local land use and
   22  zoning determinations, this paragraph does not affect the legal
   23  nonconforming use status of any community residential home
   24  lawfully permitted and operating as of July 1, 2016.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.