Yankeetown Challenges Growth Management Reform
On August 1, Yankeetown asked a Leon County circuit court judge to declare HB 7207 unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed against the Department of Community Affairs, DCA Secretary Billy Buzzett [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 2: What Didn’t Change?
My personal “top ten” list of things that have NOT changed in local government comprehensive planning with the enactment of the 2011 Community Planning Act: 1) Local governments still must [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 5: Proportionate Share Mitigation of Transportation Impacts – Deficient Roadways and Other Transportation Facilities
The Act removes the state mandate for local governments to enforce transportation concurrency, the regulatory requirement that roadway and other transportation facilities be in place concurrent [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 4: Permit Extensions Redux
As in the film “Groundhog Day,” local governments woke up at the end of the 2011 Legislative Session to find that yet another set of permit extensions were provided directly by the state, [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 3: Adversely Impact Important State Resources and Facilities?
The Act limits the scope of the state land planning agency’s (now the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) but, as of October, to become the Department of Economic Opportunity) ability to object [...]
Temporary Impacts Can Be Inordinate Burdens Under the Harris Act
For the first time since the enactment of the Harris Act in 1995, the Act can apply to temporary impacts to the development of property. See Section 70.001, Florida Statutes, known as the Bert J. [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 7: Discouraging Urban Sprawl
The Act continues to require local governments to discourage the proliferation of urban sprawl. For the first time, urban sprawl has been defined in the Community Planning Act, as: “a development [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 1: When Do Local Governments Have To Comply?
This is the first in a series of blog entries focusing on particular aspects of the 2011 Community Planning Act. (See House Bill 7207, enacted by the 2011 Florida Legislature to reform the 1985 [...]
WSHPC&B Files Amicus Curiae Brief On Behalf Of Florida League Of Cities In Significant Home Rule Case
Edward G. Guedes, Susan L. Trevarthen and Jamie A. Cole teamed together to prepare and file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Florida League of Cities at the Florida Supreme Court. The [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 6: Evaluation and Appraisal Process
The Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) as you have known it is dead. In its place is a requirement that local governments evaluate, every seven years, whether changes to the comprehensive plan [...]
