Bill Text: FL S1274 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Growth Management
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 487 (Ch. 2021-206) [S1274 Detail]
Download: Florida-2021-S1274-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Growth Management
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 487 (Ch. 2021-206) [S1274 Detail]
Download: Florida-2021-S1274-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2021 SB 1274 By Senator Perry 8-01062B-21 20211274__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to growth management; amending s. 3 163.3167, F.S.; authorizing landowners with 4 development orders existing before the incorporation 5 of a municipality to elect to abandon such orders and 6 develop the vested density and intensity contained 7 therein under specified conditions; amending s. 8 163.3187, F.S.; revising the required acreage 9 thresholds under which a small scale development 10 amendment may be adopted; providing an effective date. 11 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13 14 Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 163.3167, Florida 15 Statutes, is amended to read: 16 163.3167 Scope of act.— 17 (5) Nothing in this act shall limit or modify the rights of 18 any person to complete any development that has been authorized 19 as a development of regional impact pursuant to chapter 380 or 20 who has been issued a final local development order and 21 development has commenced and is continuing in good faith. Any 22 landowner with a development order existing before the 23 incorporation of a municipality may elect to abandon the 24 development order and develop the vested density and intensity 25 contained therein pursuant to the municipality’s comprehensive 26 plan and land development regulations adopted pursuant to 27 subsection (3) so long as the vested uses, density, and 28 intensity are consistent with the municipality’s comprehensive 29 plan. 30 Section 2. Subsections (1) and (3) of section 163.3187, 31 Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 32 163.3187 Process for adoption of small scalesmall-scale33 comprehensive plan amendment.— 34 (1) A small scale development amendment may be adopted 35 under the following conditions: 36 (a) The proposed amendment involves a use of 5010acres or 37 fewer.and:38 (b) The proposed amendment does not involve a text change 39 to the goals, policies, and objectives of the local government’s 40 comprehensive plan, but only proposes a land use change to the 41 future land use map for a site-specific small scale development 42 activity. However, text changes that relate directly to, and are 43 adopted simultaneously with, the small scale future land use map 44 amendment shall be permissible under this section. 45 (c) The property that is the subject of the proposed 46 amendment is not located within an area of critical state 47 concern, unless the project subject to the proposed amendment 48 involves the construction of affordable housing units meeting 49 the criteria of s. 420.0004(3), and is located within an area of 50 critical state concern designated by s. 380.0552 or by the 51 Administration Commission pursuant to s. 380.05(1). 52 (3) If the small scale development amendment involves a 53 site within a rural area of opportunity as defined under s. 54 288.0656(2)(d) for the duration of such designation, the acreage 5510-acrelimit listed in subsection (1) shall be increased by 100 56 percentto 20 acres. The local government approving the small 57 scale plan amendment shall certify to the state land planning 58 agency that the plan amendment furthers the economic objectives 59 set forth in the executive order issued under s. 288.0656(7), 60 and the property subject to the plan amendment shall undergo 61 public review to ensure that all concurrency requirements and 62 federal, state, and local environmental permit requirements are 63 met. 64 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.