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  2         An act relating to community revitalization;

  3         creating ss. 163.2511, 163.2514, 163.2517,

  4         163.2520, 163.2523, and 163.2526, F.S., the

  5         Growth Policy Act; providing legislative

  6         findings; providing definitions; authorizing

  7         counties and municipalities to designate urban

  8         infill and redevelopment areas based on

  9         specified criteria; providing for community and

10         neighborhood participation; requiring

11         preparation of a plan or designation of an

12         existing plan and providing requirements with

13         respect thereto; providing for amendment of the

14         local comprehensive plan to delineate area

15         boundaries; providing for adoption of the plan

16         by ordinance; providing requirements for

17         continued eligibility for economic and

18         regulatory incentives and providing that such

19         incentives may be rescinded if the plan is not

20         implemented; providing that counties and

21         municipalities that have adopted such plan may

22         issue revenue bonds and employ tax increment

23         financing under the Community Redevelopment Act

24         and exercise powers granted to community

25         redevelopment neighborhood improvement

26         districts; requiring a report by certain state

27         agencies; providing that such areas shall have

28         priority in the allocation of private activity

29         bonds; providing a program for grants to

30         counties and municipalities with urban infill

31         and redevelopment areas; providing for review


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  1         and evaluation of the act and requiring a

  2         report; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; revising

  3         the definition of "projects that promote public

  4         transportation" under the Local Government

  5         Comprehensive Planning and Land Development

  6         Regulation Act; amending s. 163.3177, F.S.;

  7         modifying the date by which local government

  8         comprehensive plans must comply with school

  9         siting requirements, and the consequences of

10         failure to comply; amending s. 163.3180, F.S.;

11         specifying that the concurrency requirement

12         applies to transportation facilities; providing

13         requirements with respect to measuring level of

14         service for specified transportation modes and

15         multimodal analysis; providing that the

16         concurrency requirement does not apply to

17         public transit facilities; authorizing

18         exemptions from the transportation facilities

19         concurrency requirement for developments

20         located in an urban infill and redevelopment

21         area; revising requirements for establishment

22         of level-of-service standards for certain

23         facilities on the Florida Intrastate Highway

24         System; providing that a multiuse development

25         of regional impact may satisfy certain

26         transportation concurrency requirements by

27         payment of a proportionate-share contribution

28         for traffic impacts under certain conditions;

29         authorizing establishment of multimodal

30         transportation districts in certain areas under

31         a local comprehensive plan, providing for


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  1         certain multimodal level-of-service standards,

  2         and providing requirements with respect

  3         thereto; providing for issuance of development

  4         permits; authorizing reduction of certain fees

  5         for development in such districts; amending s.

  6         163.3187, F.S.; providing that comprehensive

  7         plan amendments to designate urban infill and

  8         redevelopment areas are not subject to

  9         statutory limits on the frequency of plan

10         amendments; including such areas within certain

11         limitations relating to small scale development

12         amendments; amending s. 187.201, F.S.;

13         including policies relating to urban policy in

14         the State Comprehensive Plan; amending s.

15         380.06, F.S., relating to developments of

16         regional impact; increasing certain numerical

17         standards for determining a substantial

18         deviation for projects located in certain urban

19         infill and redevelopment areas; amending ss.

20         163.3220 and 163.3221, F.S.; revising

21         legislative intent with respect to the Florida

22         Local Government Development Agreement Act to

23         include intent with respect to certain

24         assurance to a developer upon receipt of a

25         brownfield designation; amending s. 163.375,

26         F.S.; authorizing acquisition by eminent domain

27         of property in unincorporated enclaves

28         surrounded by a community redevelopment area

29         when necessary to accomplish a community

30         development plan; amending s. 165.041, F.S.;

31         specifying the date for submission to the


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  1         Legislature of a feasibility study in

  2         connection with a proposed municipal

  3         incorporation and revising requirements for

  4         such study; amending s. 171.0413, F.S.,

  5         relating to municipal annexation procedures;

  6         requiring public hearings; deleting a

  7         requirement that a separate referendum be held

  8         in the annexing municipality when the

  9         annexation exceeds a certain size and providing

10         that the governing body may choose to hold such

11         a referendum; providing procedures by which a

12         county or combination of counties and the

13         municipalities therein may develop and adopt a

14         plan to improve the efficiency, accountability,

15         and coordination of the delivery of local

16         government services; providing for initiation

17         of the process by resolution; providing

18         requirements for the plan; requiring approval

19         by the local governments' governing bodies and

20         by referendum; authorizing municipal annexation

21         through such plan; amending s. 170.201, F.S.;

22         revising provisions which authorize a

23         municipality to exempt property owned or

24         occupied by certain religious or educational

25         institutions or housing facilities from special

26         assessments for emergency medical services;

27         extending application of such provisions to any

28         service; creating s. 196.1978, F.S.; providing

29         that property used to provide housing for

30         certain persons under ch. 420, F.S., and owned

31         by certain nonprofit corporations is exempt


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  1         from ad valorem taxation; amending s. 220.02,

  2         F.S.; amending the list specifying the order in

  3         which credits against the corporate income tax

  4         or the franchise tax must be applied, to

  5         conform to changes made by this act; amending

  6         s. 220.13, F.S.; amending the term "adjusted

  7         federal income," to conform to changes made by

  8         this act; creating ss. 220.185 and 420.5093,

  9         F.S.; creating the State Housing Tax Credit

10         Program; providing legislative findings and

11         policy; providing definitions; providing for a

12         credit against the corporate income tax in an

13         amount equal to a percentage of the eligible

14         basis of certain housing projects; providing a

15         limitation; providing for allocation of credits

16         and administration by the Florida Housing

17         Finance Corporation; providing for an annual

18         plan; providing application procedures;

19         providing that neither tax credits nor

20         financing generated thereby shall be considered

21         income for ad valorem tax purposes; providing

22         for recognition of certain income by the

23         property appraiser; amending s. 420.503, F.S.;

24         providing that certain projects shall qualify

25         as housing for the elderly for purposes of

26         certain loans under the State Apartment

27         Incentive Loan Program, and shall qualify as a

28         project targeted for the elderly in connection

29         with allocation of low-income housing tax

30         credits and with the HOME program under certain

31         conditions; amending s. 420.5087, F.S.;


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  1         directing the Florida Housing Finance

  2         Corporation to adopt rules for the equitable

  3         distribution of certain unallocated funds under

  4         the State Apartment Incentive Loan Program;

  5         authorizing the corporation to waive a mortgage

  6         limitation under said program for projects in

  7         certain areas; creating ss. 420.630, 420.631,

  8         420.632, 420.633, 420.634, and 420.635, F.S.,

  9         the Urban Homesteading Act; providing

10         definitions; authorizing a local government or

11         its designee to operate a program to make

12         foreclosed single-family housing available for

13         purchase by qualified buyers; providing

14         eligibility requirements; providing application

15         procedures; providing conditions under which

16         such property may be deeded to a qualified

17         buyer; requiring payment of a pro rata share of

18         certain bonded debt under certain conditions

19         and providing for loans to buyers who are

20         required to make such payment; amending s.

21         235.193, F.S.; providing that the collocation

22         of a new educational facility with an existing

23         educational facility or the expansion of an

24         existing educational facility shall not be

25         deemed inconsistent with local government

26         comprehensive plans under certain

27         circumstances; providing appropriations;

28         providing an effective date for Senate Bill

29         182, which creates the Wireless Emergency

30         Telephone System Fund; authorizing

31         municipalities to designate satellite


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  1         enterprise zones; amending s. 170.09, F.S.;

  2         providing an increased period for payment of

  3         special assessments; amending s. 189.4031,

  4         F.S.; providing that community development

  5         districts established pursuant to ch. 190,

  6         F.S., shall be deemed in compliance with

  7         certain charter requirements; 189.405, F.S.;

  8         authorizing the Department of Community Affairs

  9         to provide education programs for district

10         board members; authorizing a district board, at

11         its discretion, to pay such education costs and

12         providing for fee waiver; amending s. 189.412,

13         F.S.; authorizing the Special District

14         Information Program to provide assistance for

15         certain conferences; amending s. 189.417, F.S.;

16         authorizing water management districts to

17         provide certain notice of public meetings held

18         to evaluate responses to solicitations issued

19         by the water management district by publication

20         in certain newspapers; amending s. 190.004,

21         F.S.; specifying requirements for the charter

22         of a community development district; amending

23         s. 190.005, F.S.; providing requirements for

24         the petition to reestablish an existing special

25         district as a community development district;

26         revising language with respect to establishment

27         of such districts; amending ss. 190.006 and

28         190.011, F.S.; revising requirements relating

29         to the date of the election for the board of

30         supervisors of such districts; revising

31         requirements relating to the location of the


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  1         office of such a district; authorizing the

  2         holding of meetings at such office for certain

  3         districts; amending s. 190.009, F.S.; revising

  4         requirements relating to provision of the

  5         disclosure of public financing by such

  6         districts to prospective purchasers of real

  7         property; amending s. 190.012, F.S.; revising

  8         and expanding the powers of such districts;

  9         amending s. 190.021, F.S.; specifying the

10         status of special assessments imposed by such

11         districts; specifying that such assessments

12         constitute a lien against the property;

13         providing for collection thereof; amending s.

14         190.022, F.S.; revising requirements relating

15         to special assessments for construction,

16         acquisition, or maintenance of district

17         facilities; amending s. 190.033, F.S.; revising

18         bid requirements for the purchase of goods and

19         the construction or improvement of public works

20         and for contracts for maintenance services;

21         amending s. 190.046, F.S.; revising

22         requirements relating to consent to a change in

23         the boundaries of such districts and

24         limitations on such boundary changes; providing

25         that approval of a proposed merger of community

26         development districts by an elected board of

27         supervisors constitutes approval by the

28         landowners of the district; amending s.

29         190.048, F.S.; revising requirements relating

30         to the required disclosure to purchasers of

31         real estate within a district; creating s.


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  1         190.0485, F.S.; requiring such districts to

  2         record a notice of establishment; providing for

  3         application to existing districts; amending s.

  4         190.049, F.S.; providing an exception to the

  5         prohibition against special laws or general

  6         laws of local application creating an

  7         independent special district having two or more

  8         of a community development district's special

  9         powers enumerated in s. 190.012, F.S.;

10         providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Sections 163.2511, 163.2514, 163.2517,

15  163.2520, 163.2523, and 163.2526, Florida Statutes, are

16  created to read:

17         163.2511  Urban infill and redevelopment.--

18         (1)  Sections 163.2511-163.2526 may be cited as the

19  "Growth Policy Act."

20         (2)  It is declared that:

21         (a)  Fiscally strong urban centers are beneficial to

22  regional and state economies and resources, are a method for

23  reduction of future urban sprawl, and should be promoted by

24  state, regional, and local governments.

25         (b)  The health and vibrancy of the urban cores benefit

26  their respective regions and the state; conversely, the

27  deterioration of those urban cores negatively impacts the

28  surrounding area and the state.

29         (c)  In recognition of the interwoven destiny between

30  the urban center, the suburbs, the region, and the state, the

31  respective governments need to establish a framework and work


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  1  in partnership with communities and the private sector to

  2  revitalize urban centers.

  3         (d)  State urban policies should guide the state,

  4  regional agencies, local governments, and the private sector

  5  in preserving and redeveloping existing urban cores and

  6  promoting the adequate provision of infrastructure, human

  7  services, safe neighborhoods, educational facilities, and

  8  economic development to sustain these cores into the future.

  9         (e)  Successfully revitalizing and sustaining the urban

10  cores is dependent on addressing, through an integrated and

11  coordinated community effort, a range of varied components

12  essential to a healthy urban environment, including cultural,

13  educational, recreational, economic, transportation, and

14  social service components.

15         (f)  Infill development and redevelopment are

16  recognized to be important components and useful mechanisms

17  for promoting and sustaining urban cores. State and regional

18  entities and local governments should provide incentives to

19  promote urban infill and redevelopment. Existing programs and

20  incentives should be integrated to the extent possible to

21  promote urban infill and redevelopment and to achieve the

22  goals of the state urban policy.

23         163.2514  Definitions.--As used in ss.

24  163.2511-163.2526:

25         (1)  "Local government" means any county or

26  municipality.

27         (2)  "Urban infill and redevelopment area" means an

28  area or areas designated by a local government where:

29         (a)  Public services such as water and wastewater,

30  transportation, schools, and recreation are already available

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  1  or are scheduled to be provided in an adopted 5-year schedule

  2  of capital improvements;

  3         (b)  The area, or one or more neighborhoods within the

  4  area, suffers from pervasive poverty, unemployment, and

  5  general distress as defined by s. 290.0058;

  6         (c)  The area exhibits a proportion of properties that

  7  are substandard, overcrowded, dilapidated, vacant or

  8  abandoned, or functionally obsolete which is higher than the

  9  average for the local government;

10         (d)  More than 50 percent of the area is within 1/4

11  mile of a transit stop, or a sufficient number of such transit

12  stops will be made available concurrent with the designation;

13  and

14         (e)  The area includes or is adjacent to community

15  redevelopment areas, brownfields, enterprise zones, or Main

16  Street programs, or has been designated by the state or

17  Federal Government as an urban redevelopment, revitalization,

18  or infill area under empowerment zone, enterprise community,

19  or brownfield showcase community programs or similar programs.

20         163.2517  Designation of urban infill and redevelopment

21  area.--

22         (1)  A local government may designate a geographic area

23  or areas within its jurisdiction as an urban infill and

24  redevelopment area for the purpose of targeting economic

25  development, job creation, housing, transportation, crime

26  prevention, neighborhood revitalization and preservation, and

27  land use incentives to encourage urban infill and

28  redevelopment within the urban core.

29         (2)(a)  As part of the preparation and implementation

30  of an urban infill and redevelopment plan, a collaborative and

31  holistic community participation process must be implemented


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  1  to include each neighborhood within the area targeted for

  2  designation as an urban infill and redevelopment area. The

  3  objective of the community participation process is to

  4  encourage communities within the proposed urban infill and

  5  redevelopment area to participate in the design and

  6  implementation of the plan, including a "visioning" of the

  7  urban core, before redevelopment.

  8         (b)1.  A neighborhood participation process must be

  9  developed to provide for the ongoing involvement of

10  stakeholder groups including, but not limited to,

11  community-based organizations, neighborhood associations,

12  financial institutions, faith organizations, housing

13  authorities, financial institutions, existing businesses,

14  businesses interested in operating in the community, schools,

15  and neighborhood residents, in preparing and implementing the

16  urban infill and redevelopment plan.

17         2.  The neighborhood participation process must include

18  a governance structure whereby the local government shares

19  decisionmaking authority for developing and implementing the

20  urban infill and redevelopment plan with communitywide

21  representatives. For example, the local government and

22  community representatives could organize a corporation under

23  s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to implement

24  specific redevelopment projects.

25         (3)  A local government seeking to designate a

26  geographic area within its jurisdiction as an urban infill and

27  redevelopment area shall prepare a plan that describes the

28  infill and redevelopment objectives of the local government

29  within the proposed area. In lieu of preparing a new plan, the

30  local government may demonstrate that an existing plan or

31  combination of plans associated with a community redevelopment


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  1  area, Florida Main Street program, Front Porch Florida

  2  Community, sustainable community, enterprise zone, or

  3  neighborhood improvement district includes the factors listed

  4  in paragraphs (a)-(n), including a collaborative and holistic

  5  community participation process, or amend such existing plans

  6  to include these factors. The plan shall demonstrate the local

  7  government and community's commitment to comprehensively

  8  address the urban problems within the urban infill and

  9  redevelopment area and identify activities and programs to

10  accomplish locally identified goals such as code enforcement;

11  improved educational opportunities; reduction in crime;

12  neighborhood revitalization and preservation; provision of

13  infrastructure needs, including mass transit and multimodal

14  linkages; and mixed-use planning to promote multifunctional

15  redevelopment to improve both the residential and commercial

16  quality of life in the area. The plan shall also:

17         (a)  Contain a map depicting the geographic area or

18  areas to be included within the designation.

19         (b)  Confirm that the infill and redevelopment area is

20  within an area designated for urban uses in the local

21  government's comprehensive plan.

22         (c)  Identify and map existing enterprise zones,

23  community redevelopment areas, community development

24  corporations, brownfield areas, downtown redevelopment

25  districts, safe neighborhood improvement districts, historic

26  preservation districts, and empowerment zones or enterprise

27  communities located within the area proposed for designation

28  as an urban infill and redevelopment area and provide a

29  framework for coordinating infill and redevelopment programs

30  within the urban core.

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  1         (d)  Identify a memorandum of understanding between the

  2  district school board and the local government jurisdiction

  3  regarding public school facilities located within the urban

  4  infill and redevelopment area to identify how the school board

  5  will provide priority to enhancing public school facilities

  6  and programs in the designated area, including the reuse of

  7  existing buildings for schools within the area.

  8         (e)  Identify each neighborhood within the proposed

  9  area and state community preservation and revitalization goals

10  and projects identified through a collaborative and holistic

11  community participation process and how such projects will be

12  implemented.

13         (f)  Identify how the local government and

14  community-based organizations intend to implement affordable

15  housing programs, including, but not limited to, economic and

16  community development programs administered by federal and

17  state agencies, within the urban infill and redevelopment

18  area.

19         (g)  Identify strategies for reducing crime.

20         (h)  If applicable, provide guidelines for the adoption

21  of land development regulations specific to the urban infill

22  and redevelopment area which include, for example, setbacks

23  and parking requirements appropriate to urban development.

24         (i)  Identify and map any existing transportation

25  concurrency exception areas and any relevant public

26  transportation corridors designated by a metropolitan planning

27  organization in its long-range transportation plans or by the

28  local government in its comprehensive plan for which the local

29  government seeks designation as a transportation concurrency

30  exception area. For those areas, describe how public

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  1  transportation, pedestrian ways, and bikeways will be

  2  implemented as an alternative to increased automobile use.

  3         (j)  Identify and adopt a package of financial and

  4  local government incentives which the local government will

  5  offer for new development, expansion of existing development,

  6  and redevelopment within the urban infill and redevelopment

  7  area. Examples of such incentives include:

  8         1.  Waiver of license and permit fees.

  9         2.  Waiver of local option sales taxes.

10         3.  Waiver of delinquent taxes or fees to promote the

11  return of property to productive use.

12         4.  Expedited permitting.

13         5.  Lower transportation impact fees for development

14  which encourages more use of public transit, pedestrian, and

15  bicycle modes of transportation.

16         6.  Prioritization of infrastructure spending within

17  the urban infill and redevelopment area.

18         7.  Local government absorption of developers'

19  concurrency costs.

20         (k)  Identify how activities and incentives within the

21  urban infill and redevelopment area will be coordinated and

22  what administrative mechanism the local government will use

23  for the coordination.

24         (l)  Identify how partnerships with the financial and

25  business community will be developed.

26         (m)  Identify the governance structure that the local

27  government will use to involve community representatives in

28  the implementation of the plan.

29         (n)  Identify performance measures to evaluate the

30  success of the local government in implementing the urban

31  infill and redevelopment plan.


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  1         (4)  In order for a local government to designate an

  2  urban infill and redevelopment area, it must amend its

  3  comprehensive land use plan under s. 163.3187 to delineate the

  4  boundaries of the urban infill and redevelopment area within

  5  the future land use element of its comprehensive plan pursuant

  6  to its adopted urban infill and redevelopment plan. The state

  7  land planning agency shall review the boundary delineation of

  8  the urban infill and redevelopment area in the future land use

  9  element under s. 163.3184. However, an urban infill and

10  redevelopment plan adopted by a local government is not

11  subject to review for compliance as defined by s.

12  163.3184(1)(b), and the local government is not required to

13  adopt the plan as a comprehensive plan amendment. An amendment

14  to the local comprehensive plan to designate an urban infill

15  and redevelopment area is exempt from the twice-a-year

16  amendment limitation of s. 163.3187.

17         (5)  After the preparation of an urban infill and

18  redevelopment plan or designation of an existing plan, the

19  local government shall adopt the plan by ordinance. Notice for

20  the public hearing on the ordinance must be in the form

21  established in s. 166.041(3)(c)2. for municipalities, and s.

22  125.66(4)(b)2. for counties.

23         (6)(a)  In order to continue to be eligible for the

24  economic and regulatory incentives granted with respect to an

25  urban infill and redevelopment area, the local government must

26  demonstrate during the evaluation, assessment, and review of

27  its comprehensive plan required pursuant to s. 163.3191, that

28  within designated urban infill and redevelopment areas, the

29  amount of combined annual residential, commercial, and

30  institutional development has increased by at least 10

31  percent.


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  1         (b)  If the local government fails to implement the

  2  urban infill and redevelopment plan in accordance with the

  3  deadlines set forth in the plan, the Department of Community

  4  Affairs may seek to rescind the economic and regulatory

  5  incentives granted to the urban infill and redevelopment area,

  6  subject to the provisions of chapter 120.  The action to

  7  rescind may be initiated 90 days after issuing a written

  8  letter of warning to the local government.

  9         163.2520  Economic incentives; report.--

10         (1)  A local government with an adopted urban infill

11  and redevelopment plan or plan employed in lieu thereof may

12  issue revenue bonds under s. 163.385 and employ tax increment

13  financing under s. 163.387 for the purpose of financing the

14  implementation of the plan, except that in a charter county

15  such incentives shall be employed consistent with the

16  provisions of s. 163.410.

17         (2)  A local government with an adopted urban infill

18  and redevelopment plan or plan employed in lieu thereof may

19  exercise the powers granted under s. 163.514 for community

20  redevelopment neighborhood improvement districts, including

21  the authority to levy special assessments.

22         (3)  State agencies that provide infrastructure

23  funding, cost reimbursement, grants, or loans to local

24  governments, including, but not limited to, the Department of

25  Environmental Protection (Clean Water State Revolving Fund,

26  Drinking Water Revolving Loan Trust Fund, and the state

27  pollution control bond program); the Department of Community

28  Affairs (economic development and housing programs, Florida

29  Communities Trust); the Florida Housing Finance Corporation;

30  and the Department of Transportation (Intermodal Surface

31  Transportation Efficiency Act funds), are directed to report


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  1  to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of

  2  Representatives by January 1, 2000, regarding statutory and

  3  rule changes necessary to give urban infill and redevelopment

  4  areas identified by local governments under this act an

  5  elevated priority in infrastructure funding, loan, and grant

  6  programs.

  7         (4)  Prior to June 1 each year, areas designated by a

  8  local government as urban infill and redevelopment areas shall

  9  be given a priority in the allocation of private activity

10  bonds from the state pool pursuant to s. 159.807.

11         163.2523  Grant program.--An Urban Infill and

12  Redevelopment Assistance Grant Program is created for local

13  governments. A local government may allocate grant money to

14  special districts, including community redevelopment agencies,

15  and nonprofit community development organizations to implement

16  projects consistent with an adopted urban infill and

17  redevelopment plan or plan employed in lieu thereof. Thirty

18  percent of the general revenue appropriated for this program

19  shall be available for planning grants to be used by local

20  governments for the development of an urban infill and

21  redevelopment plan, including community participation

22  processes for the plan. Sixty percent of the general revenue

23  appropriated for this program shall be available for

24  fifty/fifty matching grants for implementing urban infill and

25  redevelopment projects that further the objectives set forth

26  in the local government's adopted urban infill and

27  redevelopment plan or plan employed in lieu thereof. The

28  remaining 10 percent of the revenue must be used for outright

29  grants for implementing projects requiring an expenditure of

30  under $50,000. Projects that provide employment opportunities

31  to clients of the WAGES program and projects within urban


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  1  infill and redevelopment areas that include a community

  2  redevelopment area, Florida Main Street program, Front Porch

  3  Florida Community, sustainable community, enterprise zone,

  4  federal enterprise zone, enterprise community, or neighborhood

  5  improvement district must be given an elevated priority in the

  6  scoring of competing grant applications. The Division of

  7  Housing and Community Development of the Department of

  8  Community Affairs shall administer the grant program. The

  9  Department of Community Affairs shall adopt rules establishing

10  grant review criteria consistent with this section.

11         163.2526  Review and evaluation.--Before the 2004

12  Regular Session of the Legislature, the Office of Program

13  Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall perform a

14  review and evaluation of ss. 163.2511-163.2526, including the

15  financial incentives listed in s. 163.2520. The report must

16  evaluate the effectiveness of the designation of urban infill

17  and redevelopment areas in stimulating urban infill and

18  redevelopment and strengthening the urban core. A report of

19  the findings and recommendations of the Office of Program

20  Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall be

21  submitted to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of

22  the House of Representatives before the 2004 Regular Session

23  of the Legislature.

24         Section 2.  Subsection (28) of section 163.3164,

25  Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

26         163.3164  Definitions.--As used in this act:

27         (28)  "Projects that promote public transportation"

28  means projects that directly affect the provisions of public

29  transit, including transit terminals, transit lines and

30  routes, separate lanes for the exclusive use of public transit

31  services, transit stops (shelters and stations), and office


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  1  buildings or projects that include fixed-rail or transit

  2  terminals as part of the building, and projects which are

  3  transit-oriented and designed to complement reasonably

  4  proximate planned or existing public facilities.

  5         Section 3.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of section

  6  163.3177, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to

  7  read:

  8         163.3177  Required and optional elements of

  9  comprehensive plan; studies and surveys.--

10         (6)  In addition to the requirements of subsections

11  (1)-(5), the comprehensive plan shall include the following

12  elements:

13         (a)  A future land use plan element designating

14  proposed future general distribution, location, and extent of

15  the uses of land for residential uses, commercial uses,

16  industry, agriculture, recreation, conservation, education,

17  public buildings and grounds, other public facilities, and

18  other categories of the public and private uses of land.  The

19  future land use plan shall include standards to be followed in

20  the control and distribution of population densities and

21  building and structure intensities.  The proposed

22  distribution, location, and extent of the various categories

23  of land use shall be shown on a land use map or map series

24  which shall be supplemented by goals, policies, and measurable

25  objectives.  Each land use category shall be defined in terms

26  of the types of uses included and specific standards for the

27  density or intensity of use.  The future land use plan shall

28  be based upon surveys, studies, and data regarding the area,

29  including the amount of land required to accommodate

30  anticipated growth; the projected population of the area; the

31  character of undeveloped land; the availability of public


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  1  services; and the need for redevelopment, including the

  2  renewal of blighted areas and the elimination of nonconforming

  3  uses which are inconsistent with the character of the

  4  community. The future land use plan may designate areas for

  5  future planned development use involving combinations of types

  6  of uses for which special regulations may be necessary to

  7  ensure development in accord with the principles and standards

  8  of the comprehensive plan and this act.  The future land use

  9  plan of a county may also designate areas for possible future

10  municipal incorporation.  The land use maps or map series

11  shall generally identify and depict historic district

12  boundaries and shall designate historically significant

13  properties meriting protection.  The future land use element

14  must clearly identify the land use categories in which public

15  schools are an allowable use.  When delineating the land use

16  categories in which public schools are an allowable use, a

17  local government shall include in the categories sufficient

18  land proximate to residential development to meet the

19  projected needs for schools in coordination with public school

20  boards and may establish differing criteria for schools of

21  different type or size.  Each local government shall include

22  lands contiguous to existing school sites, to the maximum

23  extent possible, within the land use categories in which

24  public schools are an allowable use. All comprehensive plans

25  must comply with the school siting requirements of this

26  paragraph no later than October 1, 1999, or the deadline for

27  the local government evaluation and appraisal report,

28  whichever occurs first. The failure by a local government to

29  comply with these school siting requirements by October 1,

30  1999, this requirement will result in the prohibition of the

31  local government's ability to amend the local comprehensive


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  1  plan, except for plan amendments described in s.

  2  163.3187(1)(b), until the school siting requirements are met

  3  as provided by s. 163.3187(6). An amendment proposed by a

  4  local government for purposes of identifying the land use

  5  categories in which public schools are an allowable use is

  6  exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments

  7  contained in s. 163.3187. The future land use element shall

  8  include criteria which encourage the location of schools

  9  proximate to urban residential areas to the extent possible

10  and shall require that the local government seek to collocate

11  public facilities, such as parks, libraries, and community

12  centers, with schools to the extent possible.

13         Section 4.  Subsections (1), (4), (5), and (10) of

14  section 163.3180, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, are

15  amended, subsections (12) and (13) are renumbered as

16  subsections (13) and (14), respectively, and new subsections

17  (12) and (15) are added to said section, to read:

18         163.3180  Concurrency.--

19         (1)(a)  Roads, Sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage,

20  potable water, parks and recreation, and transportation

21  facilities, including mass transit, where applicable, are the

22  only public facilities and services subject to the concurrency

23  requirement on a statewide basis. Additional public facilities

24  and services may not be made subject to concurrency on a

25  statewide basis without appropriate study and approval by the

26  Legislature; however, any local government may extend the

27  concurrency requirement so that it applies to additional

28  public facilities within its jurisdiction.

29         (b)  Local governments shall use professionally

30  accepted techniques for measuring level of service for

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  1  These techniques may be used to evaluate increased

  2  accessibility by multiple modes and reductions in vehicle

  3  miles of travel in an area or zone.  The Department of

  4  Transportation shall develop methodologies to assist local

  5  governments in implementing this multimodal level-of-service

  6  analysis. The Department of Community Affairs and the

  7  Department of Transportation shall provide technical

  8  assistance to local governments in applying these

  9  methodologies.

10         (4)(a)  The concurrency requirement as implemented in

11  local comprehensive plans applies to state and other public

12  facilities and development to the same extent that it applies

13  to all other facilities and development, as provided by law.

14         (b)  The concurrency requirement as implemented in

15  local comprehensive plans does not apply to public transit

16  facilities.  For the purposes of this paragraph, public

17  transit facilities include transit stations and terminals,

18  transit station parking, park-and-ride lots, intermodal public

19  transit connection or transfer facilities, and fixed bus,

20  guideway, and rail stations.  As used in this paragraph, the

21  terms "terminals" and "transit facilities" do not include

22  airports or seaports or commercial or residential development

23  constructed in conjunction with a public transit facility.

24         (5)(a)  The Legislature finds that under limited

25  circumstances dealing with transportation facilities,

26  countervailing planning and public policy goals may come into

27  conflict with the requirement that adequate public facilities

28  and services be available concurrent with the impacts of such

29  development.  The Legislature further finds that often the

30  unintended result of the concurrency requirement for

31  transportation facilities is the discouragement of urban


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  1  infill development and redevelopment.  Such unintended results

  2  directly conflict with the goals and policies of the state

  3  comprehensive plan and the intent of this part.  Therefore,

  4  exceptions from the concurrency requirement for transportation

  5  facilities may be granted as provided by this subsection.

  6         (b)  A local government may grant an exception from the

  7  concurrency requirement for transportation facilities if the

  8  proposed development is otherwise consistent with the adopted

  9  local government comprehensive plan and is a project that

10  promotes public transportation or is located within an area

11  designated in the comprehensive plan for:

12         1.  Urban infill development,

13         2.  Urban redevelopment, or

14         3.  Downtown revitalization, or.

15         4.  Urban infill and redevelopment under s. 163.2517.

16         (c)  The Legislature also finds that developments

17  located within urban infill, urban redevelopment, existing

18  urban service, or downtown revitalization areas or areas

19  designated as urban infill and redevelopment areas under s.

20  163.2517 which pose only special part-time demands on the

21  transportation system should be excepted from the concurrency

22  requirement for transportation facilities.  A special

23  part-time demand is one that does not have more than 200

24  scheduled events during any calendar year and does not affect

25  the 100 highest traffic volume hours.

26         (d)  A local government shall establish guidelines for

27  granting the exceptions authorized in paragraphs (b) and (c)

28  in the comprehensive plan. These guidelines must include

29  consideration of the impacts on the Florida Intrastate Highway

30  System, as defined in s. 338.001.  The exceptions may be

31  available only within the specific geographic area of the


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  1  jurisdiction designated in the plan.  Pursuant to s. 163.3184,

  2  any affected person may challenge a plan amendment

  3  establishing these guidelines and the areas within which an

  4  exception could be granted.

  5         (10)  With regard to facilities on the Florida

  6  Intrastate Highway System as defined in s. 338.001, with

  7  concurrence from the Department of Transportation, the

  8  level-of-service standard for general-lanes in urbanized

  9  areas, as defined in s. 334.03(36), may be established by the

10  local government in the comprehensive plan. For all other

11  facilities on the Florida Intrastate Highway System, local

12  governments shall adopt the level-of-service standard

13  established by the Department of Transportation by rule.  For

14  all other roads on the State Highway System, local governments

15  shall establish an adequate level-of-service standard that

16  need not be consistent with any level-of-service standard

17  established by the Department of Transportation.

18         (12)  When authorized by a local comprehensive plan, a

19  multiuse development of regional impact may satisfy the

20  transportation concurrency requirements of the local

21  comprehensive plan, the local government's concurrency

22  management system, and s. 380.06 by payment of a

23  proportionate-share contribution for local and regionally

24  significant traffic impacts, if:

25         (a)  The development of regional impact meets or

26  exceeds the guidelines and standards of s. 380.0651(3)(i) and

27  rule 28-24.032(2), Florida Administrative Code, and includes a

28  residential component that contains at least 100 residential

29  dwelling units or 15 percent of the applicable residential

30  guideline and standard, whichever is greater;

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  1         (b)  The development of regional impact contains an

  2  integrated mix of land uses and is designed to encourage

  3  pedestrian or other nonautomotive modes of transportation;

  4         (c)  The proportionate-share contribution for local and

  5  regionally significant traffic impacts is sufficient to pay

  6  for one or more required improvements that will benefit a

  7  regionally significant transportation facility;

  8         (d)  The owner and developer of the development of

  9  regional impact pays or assures payment of the

10  proportionate-share contribution; and

11         (e)  If the regionally significant transportation

12  facility to be constructed or improved is under the

13  maintenance authority of a governmental entity, as defined by

14  s. 334.03(12), other than the local government with

15  jurisdiction over the development of regional impact, the

16  developer is required to enter into a binding and legally

17  enforceable commitment to transfer funds to the governmental

18  entity having maintenance authority or to otherwise assure

19  construction or improvement of the facility.

20

21  The proportionate-share contribution may be applied to any

22  transportation facility to satisfy the provisions of this

23  subsection and the local comprehensive plan, but, for the

24  purposes of this subsection, the amount of the

25  proportionate-share contribution shall be calculated based

26  upon the cumulative number of trips from the proposed

27  development expected to reach roadways during the peak hour

28  from the complete buildout of a stage or phase being approved,

29  divided by the change in the peak hour maximum service volume

30  of roadways resulting from construction of an improvement

31  necessary to maintain the adopted level of service, multiplied


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  1  by the construction cost, at the time of developer payment, of

  2  the improvement necessary to maintain the adopted level of

  3  service. For purposes of this subsection, "construction cost"

  4  includes all associated costs of the improvement.

  5         (15)(a)  Multimodal transportation districts may be

  6  established under a local government comprehensive plan in

  7  areas delineated on the future land use map for which the

  8  local comprehensive plan assigns secondary priority to vehicle

  9  mobility and primary priority to assuring a safe, comfortable,

10  and attractive pedestrian environment, with convenient

11  interconnection to transit.  Such districts must incorporate

12  community design features that will reduce the number of

13  automobile trips or vehicle miles of travel and will support

14  an integrated, multimodal transportation system.

15         (b)  Community design elements of such a district

16  include:  a complementary mix and range of land uses,

17  including educational, recreational, and cultural uses;

18  interconnected networks of streets designed to encourage

19  walking and bicycling, with traffic-calming where desirable;

20  appropriate densities and intensities of use within walking

21  distance of transit stops; daily activities within walking

22  distance of residences, allowing independence to persons who

23  do not drive; public uses, streets, and squares that are safe,

24  comfortable, and attractive for the pedestrian, with adjoining

25  buildings open to the street and with parking not interfering

26  with pedestrian, transit, automobile, and truck travel modes.

27         (c)  Local governments may establish multimodal

28  level-of-service standards that rely primarily on nonvehicular

29  modes of transportation within the district, when justified by

30  an analysis demonstrating that the existing and planned

31  community design will provide an adequate level of mobility


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  1  within the district based upon professionally accepted

  2  multimodal level-of-service methodologies.  The analysis must

  3  take into consideration the impact on the Florida Intrastate

  4  Highway System.  The analysis must also demonstrate that the

  5  capital improvements required to promote community design are

  6  financially feasible over the development or redevelopment

  7  timeframe for the district and that community design features

  8  within the district provide convenient interconnection for a

  9  multimodal transportation system.  Local governments may issue

10  development permits in reliance upon all planned community

11  design capital improvements that are financially feasible over

12  the development or redevelopment timeframe for the district,

13  without regard to the period of time between development or

14  redevelopment and the scheduled construction of the capital

15  improvements.  A determination of financial feasibility shall

16  be based upon currently available funding or funding sources

17  that could reasonably be expected to become available over the

18  planning period.

19         (d)  Local governments may reduce impact fees or local

20  access fees for development within multimodal transportation

21  districts based on the reduction of vehicle trips per

22  household or vehicle miles of travel expected from the

23  development pattern planned for the district.

24         Section 5.  Subsection (1) of section 163.3187, Florida

25  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

26         163.3187  Amendment of adopted comprehensive plan.--

27         (1)  Amendments to comprehensive plans adopted pursuant

28  to this part may be made not more than two times during any

29  calendar year, except:

30         (a)  In the case of an emergency, comprehensive plan

31  amendments may be made more often than twice during the


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  1  calendar year if the additional plan amendment receives the

  2  approval of all of the members of the governing body.

  3  "Emergency" means any occurrence or threat thereof whether

  4  accidental or natural, caused by humankind, in war or peace,

  5  which results or may result in substantial injury or harm to

  6  the population or substantial damage to or loss of property or

  7  public funds.

  8         (b)  Any local government comprehensive plan amendments

  9  directly related to a proposed development of regional impact,

10  including changes which have been determined to be substantial

11  deviations and including Florida Quality Developments pursuant

12  to s. 380.061, may be initiated by a local planning agency and

13  considered by the local governing body at the same time as the

14  application for development approval using the procedures

15  provided for local plan amendment in this section and

16  applicable local ordinances, without regard to statutory or

17  local ordinance limits on the frequency of consideration of

18  amendments to the local comprehensive plan.  Nothing in this

19  subsection shall be deemed to require favorable consideration

20  of a plan amendment solely because it is related to a

21  development of regional impact.

22         (c)  Any local government comprehensive plan amendments

23  directly related to proposed small scale development

24  activities may be approved without regard to statutory limits

25  on the frequency of consideration of amendments to the local

26  comprehensive plan.  A small scale development amendment may

27  be adopted only under the following conditions:

28         1.  The proposed amendment involves a use of 10 acres

29  or fewer and:

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  1         a.  The cumulative annual effect of the acreage for all

  2  small scale development amendments adopted by the local

  3  government shall not exceed:

  4         (I)  A maximum of 120 acres in a local government that

  5  contains areas specifically designated in the local

  6  comprehensive plan for urban infill, urban redevelopment, or

  7  downtown revitalization as defined in s. 163.3164, urban

  8  infill and redevelopment areas designated under s. 163.2517,

  9  transportation concurrency exception areas approved pursuant

10  to s. 163.3180(5), or regional activity centers and urban

11  central business districts approved pursuant to s.

12  380.06(2)(e); however, amendments under this paragraph may be

13  applied to no more than 60 acres annually of property outside

14  the designated areas listed in this sub-sub-subparagraph.

15         (II)  A maximum of 80 acres in a local government that

16  does not contain any of the designated areas set forth in

17  sub-sub-subparagraph (I).

18         (III)  A maximum of 120 acres in a county established

19  pursuant to s. 9, Art. VIII of the State Constitution.

20         b.  The proposed amendment does not involve the same

21  property granted a change within the prior 12 months.

22         c.  The proposed amendment does not involve the same

23  owner's property within 200 feet of property granted a change

24  within the prior 12 months.

25         d.  The proposed amendment does not involve a text

26  change to the goals, policies, and objectives of the local

27  government's comprehensive plan, but only proposes a land use

28  change to the future land use map for a site-specific small

29  scale development activity.

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  1         e.  The property that is the subject of the proposed

  2  amendment is not located within an area of critical state

  3  concern.

  4         f.  If the proposed amendment involves a residential

  5  land use, the residential land use has a density of 10 units

  6  or less per acre, except that this limitation does not apply

  7  to small scale amendments described in sub-sub-subparagraph

  8  a.(I) that are designated in the local comprehensive plan for

  9  urban infill, urban redevelopment, or downtown revitalization

10  as defined in s. 163.3164, urban infill and redevelopment

11  areas designated under s. 163.2517, transportation concurrency

12  exception areas approved pursuant to s. 163.3180(5), or

13  regional activity centers and urban central business districts

14  approved pursuant to s. 380.06(2)(e).

15         2.a.  A local government that proposes to consider a

16  plan amendment pursuant to this paragraph is not required to

17  comply with the procedures and public notice requirements of

18  s. 163.3184(15)(c) for such plan amendments if the local

19  government complies with the provisions in s. 125.66(4)(a) for

20  a county or in s. 166.041(3)(c) for a municipality. If a

21  request for a plan amendment under this paragraph is initiated

22  by other than the local government, public notice is required.

23         b.  The local government shall send copies of the

24  notice and amendment to the state land planning agency, the

25  regional planning council, and any other person or entity

26  requesting a copy.  This information shall also include a

27  statement identifying any property subject to the amendment

28  that is located within a coastal high hazard area as

29  identified in the local comprehensive plan.

30         3.  Small scale development amendments adopted pursuant

31  to this paragraph require only one public hearing before the


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  1  governing board, which shall be an adoption hearing as

  2  described in s. 163.3184(7), and are not subject to the

  3  requirements of s. 163.3184(3)-(6) unless the local government

  4  elects to have them subject to those requirements.

  5         (d)  Any comprehensive plan amendment required by a

  6  compliance agreement pursuant to s. 163.3184(16) may be

  7  approved without regard to statutory limits on the frequency

  8  of adoption of amendments to the comprehensive plan.

  9         (e)  A comprehensive plan amendment for location of a

10  state correctional facility. Such an amendment may be made at

11  any time and does not count toward the limitation on the

12  frequency of plan amendments.

13         (f)  Any comprehensive plan amendment that changes the

14  schedule in the capital improvements element, and any

15  amendments directly related to the schedule, may be made once

16  in a calendar year on a date different from the two times

17  provided in this subsection when necessary to coincide with

18  the adoption of the local government's budget and capital

19  improvements program.

20         (g)  Any local government comprehensive plan amendments

21  directly related to proposed redevelopment of brownfield areas

22  designated under s. 376.80 may be approved without regard to

23  statutory limits on the frequency of consideration of

24  amendments to the local comprehensive plan.

25         (h)  A comprehensive plan amendment for the purpose of

26  designating an urban infill and redevelopment area under s.

27  163.2517 may be approved without regard to the statutory

28  limits on the frequency of amendments to the comprehensive

29  plan.

30         (i)  Any comprehensive plan amendment to establish

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  1  including, but not limited to, adoption of a public school

  2  facilities element and adoption of amendments to the capital

  3  improvements element and intergovernmental coordination

  4  element. In order to ensure the consistency of local

  5  government public school facilities elements within a county,

  6  such elements shall be prepared and adopted on a similar time

  7  schedule.

  8         Section 6.  Subsection (17) of section 187.201, Florida

  9  Statutes, is amended to read:

10         187.201  State Comprehensive Plan adopted.--The

11  Legislature hereby adopts as the State Comprehensive Plan the

12  following specific goals and policies:

13         (17)  URBAN AND DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION.--

14         (a)  Goal.--In recognition of the importance of

15  Florida's vital urban centers and of the need to develop and

16  redevelop developing and redeveloping downtowns to the state's

17  ability to use existing infrastructure and to accommodate

18  growth in an orderly, efficient, and environmentally

19  acceptable manner, Florida shall encourage the centralization

20  of commercial, governmental, retail, residential, and cultural

21  activities within downtown areas.

22         (b)  Policies.--

23         1.  Provide incentives to encourage private sector

24  investment in the preservation and enhancement of downtown

25  areas.

26         2.  Assist local governments in the planning,

27  financing, and implementation of development efforts aimed at

28  revitalizing distressed downtown areas.

29         3.  Promote state programs and investments which

30  encourage redevelopment of downtown areas.

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  1         4.  Promote and encourage communities to engage in a

  2  redesign step to include public participation of members of

  3  the community in envisioning redevelopment goals and design of

  4  the community core before redevelopment.

  5         5.  Ensure that local governments have adequate

  6  flexibility to determine and address their urban priorities

  7  within the state urban policy.

  8         6.  Enhance the linkages between land use, water use,

  9  and transportation planning in state, regional, and local

10  plans for current and future designated urban areas.

11         7.  Develop concurrency requirements that do not

12  compromise public health and safety for urban areas that

13  promote redevelopment efforts.

14         8.  Promote processes for the state, general purpose

15  local governments, school boards, and local community colleges

16  to coordinate and cooperate regarding educational facilities

17  in urban areas, including planning functions, the development

18  of joint facilities, and the reuse of existing buildings.

19         9.  Encourage the development of mass transit systems

20  for urban centers, including multimodal transportation feeder

21  systems, as a priority of local, metropolitan, regional, and

22  state transportation planning.

23         10.  Locate appropriate public facilities within urban

24  centers to demonstrate public commitment to the centers and to

25  encourage private sector development.

26         11.  Integrate state programs that have been developed

27  to promote economic development and neighborhood

28  revitalization through incentives to promote the development

29  of designated urban infill areas.

30         12.  Promote infill development and redevelopment as an

31  important mechanism to revitalize and sustain urban centers.


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  1         Section 7.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (19) of section

  2  380.06, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

  3         380.06  Developments of regional impact.--

  4         (19)  SUBSTANTIAL DEVIATIONS.--

  5         (b)  Any proposed change to a previously approved

  6  development of regional impact or development order condition

  7  which, either individually or cumulatively with other changes,

  8  exceeds any of the following criteria shall constitute a

  9  substantial deviation and shall cause the development to be

10  subject to further development-of-regional-impact review

11  without the necessity for a finding of same by the local

12  government:

13         1.  An increase in the number of parking spaces at an

14  attraction or recreational facility by 5 percent or 300

15  spaces, whichever is greater, or an increase in the number of

16  spectators that may be accommodated at such a facility by 5

17  percent or 1,000 spectators, whichever is greater.

18         2.  A new runway, a new terminal facility, a 25-percent

19  lengthening of an existing runway, or a 25-percent increase in

20  the number of gates of an existing terminal, but only if the

21  increase adds at least three additional gates.  However, if an

22  airport is located in two counties, a 10-percent lengthening

23  of an existing runway or a 20-percent increase in the number

24  of gates of an existing terminal is the applicable criteria.

25         3.  An increase in the number of hospital beds by 5

26  percent or 60 beds, whichever is greater.

27         4.  An increase in industrial development area by 5

28  percent or 32 acres, whichever is greater.

29         5.  An increase in the average annual acreage mined by

30  5 percent or 10 acres, whichever is greater, or an increase in

31  the average daily water consumption by a mining operation by 5


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  1  percent or 300,000 gallons, whichever is greater.  An increase

  2  in the size of the mine by 5 percent or 750 acres, whichever

  3  is less.

  4         6.  An increase in land area for office development by

  5  5 percent or 6 acres, whichever is greater, or an increase of

  6  gross floor area of office development by 5 percent or 60,000

  7  gross square feet, whichever is greater.

  8         7.  An increase in the storage capacity for chemical or

  9  petroleum storage facilities by 5 percent, 20,000 barrels, or

10  7 million pounds, whichever is greater.

11         8.  An increase of development at a waterport of wet

12  storage for 20 watercraft, dry storage for 30 watercraft, or

13  wet/dry storage for 60 watercraft in an area identified in the

14  state marina siting plan as an appropriate site for additional

15  waterport development or a 5-percent increase in watercraft

16  storage capacity, whichever is greater.

17         9.  An increase in the number of dwelling units by 5

18  percent or 50 dwelling units, whichever is greater.

19         10.  An increase in commercial development by 6 acres

20  of land area or by 50,000 square feet of gross floor area, or

21  of parking spaces provided for customers for 300 cars or a

22  5-percent increase of any of these, whichever is greater.

23         11.  An increase in hotel or motel facility units by 5

24  percent or 75 units, whichever is greater.

25         12.  An increase in a recreational vehicle park area by

26  5 percent or 100 vehicle spaces, whichever is less.

27         13.  A decrease in the area set aside for open space of

28  5 percent or 20 acres, whichever is less.

29         14.  A proposed increase to an approved multiuse

30  development of regional impact where the sum of the increases

31  of each land use as a percentage of the applicable substantial


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  1  deviation criteria is equal to or exceeds 100 percent. The

  2  percentage of any decrease in the amount of open space shall

  3  be treated as an increase for purposes of determining when 100

  4  percent has been reached or exceeded.

  5         15.  A 15-percent increase in the number of external

  6  vehicle trips generated by the development above that which

  7  was projected during the original

  8  development-of-regional-impact review.

  9         16.  Any change which would result in development of

10  any area which was specifically set aside in the application

11  for development approval or in the development order for

12  preservation or special protection of endangered or threatened

13  plants or animals designated as endangered, threatened, or

14  species of special concern and their habitat, primary dunes,

15  or archaeological and historical sites designated as

16  significant by the Division of Historical Resources of the

17  Department of State.  The further refinement of such areas by

18  survey shall be considered under sub-subparagraph (e)5.b.

19

20  The substantial deviation numerical standards in subparagraphs

21  4., 6., 10., 14., excluding residential uses, and 15., are

22  increased by 100 percent for a project certified under s.

23  403.973 which creates jobs and meets criteria established by

24  the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development as to

25  its impact on an area's economy, employment, and prevailing

26  wage and skill levels. The substantial deviation numerical

27  standards in subparagraphs 4., 6., 9., 10., 11., and 14. are

28  increased by 50 percent for a project located wholly within an

29  urban infill and redevelopment area designated on the

30  applicable adopted local comprehensive plan future land use

31  map and not located within the coastal high hazard area.


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  1         Section 8.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section

  2  163.3220, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  3         163.3220  Short title; legislative intent.--

  4         (2)  The Legislature finds and declares that:

  5         (b)  Assurance to a developer that upon receipt of his

  6  or her development permit or brownfield designation he or she

  7  may proceed in accordance with existing laws and policies,

  8  subject to the conditions of a development agreement,

  9  strengthens the public planning process, encourages sound

10  capital improvement planning and financing, assists in

11  assuring there are adequate capital facilities for the

12  development, encourages private participation in comprehensive

13  planning, and reduces the economic costs of development.

14         Section 9.  Subsections (1) through (13) of section

15  163.3221, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (2)

16  through (14), respectively, and a new subsection (1) is added

17  to said section to read:

18         163.3221  Definitions.--As used in ss.

19  163.3220-163.3243:

20         (1)  "Brownfield designation" means a resolution

21  adopted by a local government pursuant to the Brownfields

22  Redevelopment Act, ss. 376.77-376.85.

23         Section 10.  Subsection (1) of section 163.375, Florida

24  Statutes, is amended to read:

25         163.375  Eminent domain.--

26         (1)  Any county or municipality, or any community

27  redevelopment agency pursuant to specific approval of the

28  governing body of the county or municipality which established

29  the agency, as provided by any county or municipal ordinance

30  has the right to acquire by condemnation any interest in real

31  property, including a fee simple title thereto, which it deems


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  1  necessary for, or in connection with, community redevelopment

  2  and related activities under this part.  Any county or

  3  municipality, or any community redevelopment agency pursuant

  4  to specific approval by the governing body of the county or

  5  municipality which established the agency, as provided by any

  6  county or municipal ordinance may exercise the power of

  7  eminent domain in the manner provided in chapters 73 and 74

  8  and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, or it

  9  may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner now or

10  which may be hereafter provided by any other statutory

11  provision for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.

12  Property in unincorporated enclaves surrounded by the

13  boundaries of a community redevelopment area may be acquired

14  when it is determined necessary by the agency to accomplish

15  the community redevelopment plan. Property already devoted to

16  a public use may be acquired in like manner.  However, no real

17  property belonging to the United States, the state, or any

18  political subdivision of the state may be acquired without its

19  consent.

20         Section 11.  Subsection (1) of section 165.041, Florida

21  Statutes, is amended to read:

22         165.041  Incorporation; merger.--

23         (1)(a)  A charter for incorporation of a municipality,

24  except in case of a merger which is adopted as otherwise

25  provided in subsections (2) and (3), shall be adopted only by

26  a special act of the Legislature upon determination that the

27  standards herein provided have been met.

28         (b)  To inform the Legislature on the feasibility of a

29  proposed incorporation of a municipality, a feasibility study

30  shall be completed and submitted to the Legislature 90 days

31  before the first day of the regular session of the Legislature


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  1  during which in conjunction with a proposed special act for

  2  the enactment of the municipal charter would be enacted.  The

  3  Such feasibility study shall contain the following:

  4         1.  The general location of territory subject to

  5  boundary change and a map of the area which identifies the

  6  proposed change.

  7         2.  The major reasons for proposing the boundary

  8  change.

  9         3.  The following characteristics of the area:

10         a.  A list of the current land use designations applied

11  to the subject area in the county comprehensive plan.

12         b.  A list of the current county zoning designations

13  applied to the subject area.

14         c.  A general statement of present land use

15  characteristics of the area.

16         d.  A description of development being proposed for the

17  territory, if any, and a statement of when actual development

18  is expected to begin, if known.

19         4.  A list of all public agencies, such as local

20  governments, school districts, and special districts, whose

21  current boundary falls within the boundary of the territory

22  proposed for the change or reorganization.

23         5.  A list of current services being provided within

24  the proposed incorporation area, including, but not limited

25  to, water, sewer, solid waste, transportation, public works,

26  law enforcement, fire and rescue, zoning, street lighting,

27  parks and recreation, and library and cultural facilities, and

28  the estimated costs for each current service.

29         6.  A list of proposed services to be provided within

30  the proposed incorporation area, and the estimated cost of

31  such proposed services.


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  1         7.  The names and addresses of three officers or

  2  persons submitting the proposal.

  3         8.  Evidence of fiscal capacity and an organizational

  4  plan as it relates to the area seeking incorporation that, at

  5  a minimum, includes:

  6         a.  Existing tax bases, including ad valorem taxable

  7  value, utility taxes, sales and use taxes, franchise taxes,

  8  license and permit fees, charges for services, fines and

  9  forfeitures, and other revenue sources, as appropriate.

10         b.  A 5-year operational plan that, at a minimum,

11  includes proposed staffing, building acquisition and

12  construction, debt issuance, and budgets.

13         9.1.  Data and analysis to support the conclusions that

14  incorporation is necessary and financially feasible, including

15  population projections and population density calculations,

16  and an explanation concerning methodologies used for such

17  analysis.

18         10.2.  Evaluation of the alternatives available to the

19  area to address its policy concerns.

20         11.3.  Evidence that the proposed municipality meets

21  the requirements for incorporation pursuant to s. 165.061.

22         (c)  In counties that have adopted a municipal overlay

23  for municipal incorporation pursuant to s. 163.3217, such

24  information shall be submitted to the Legislature in

25  conjunction with any proposed municipal incorporation in the

26  county.  This information should be used to evaluate the

27  feasibility of a proposed municipal incorporation in the

28  geographic area.

29         Section 12.  Section 171.0413, Florida Statutes, is

30  amended to read:

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  1         171.0413  Annexation procedures.--Any municipality may

  2  annex contiguous, compact, unincorporated territory in the

  3  following manner:

  4         (1)  An ordinance proposing to annex an area of

  5  contiguous, compact, unincorporated territory shall be adopted

  6  by the governing body of the annexing municipality pursuant to

  7  the procedure for the adoption of a nonemergency ordinance

  8  established by s. 166.041. Prior to the adoption of the

  9  ordinance of annexation, the local governing body shall hold

10  at least two advertised public hearings.  The first public

11  hearing shall be on a weekday at least 7 days after the day

12  that the first advertisement is published. The second public

13  hearing shall be held on a weekday at least 5 days after the

14  day that the second advertisement is published.  Each such

15  ordinance shall propose only one reasonably compact area to be

16  annexed.  However, prior to the ordinance of annexation

17  becoming effective, a referendum on annexation shall be held

18  as set out below, and, if approved by the referendum, the

19  ordinance shall become effective 10 days after the referendum

20  or as otherwise provided in the ordinance, but not more than 1

21  year following the date of the referendum.

22         (2)  Following the final adoption of the ordinance of

23  annexation by the governing body of the annexing municipality,

24  the ordinance shall be submitted to a vote of the registered

25  electors of the area proposed to be annexed. The governing

26  body of the annexing municipality may also choose to submit

27  the ordinance of annexation to a separate vote of the

28  registered electors of the annexing municipality.  If the

29  proposed ordinance would cause the total area annexed by a

30  municipality pursuant to this section during any one calendar

31  year period cumulatively to exceed more than 5 percent of the


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  1  total land area of the municipality or cumulatively to exceed

  2  more than 5 percent of the municipal population, the ordinance

  3  shall be submitted to a separate vote of the registered

  4  electors of the annexing municipality and of the area proposed

  5  to be annexed. The referendum on annexation shall be called

  6  and conducted and the expense thereof paid by the governing

  7  body of the annexing municipality.

  8         (a)  The referendum on annexation shall be held at the

  9  next regularly scheduled election following the final adoption

10  of the ordinance of annexation by the governing body of the

11  annexing municipality or at a special election called for the

12  purpose of holding the referendum. However, the referendum,

13  whether held at a regularly scheduled election or at a special

14  election, shall not be held sooner than 30 days following the

15  final adoption of the ordinance by the governing body of the

16  annexing municipality.

17         (b)  The governing body of the annexing municipality

18  shall publish notice of the referendum on annexation at least

19  once each week for 2 consecutive weeks immediately preceding

20  the date of the referendum in a newspaper of general

21  circulation in the area in which the referendum is to be held.

22  The notice shall give the ordinance number, the time and

23  places for the referendum, and a brief, general description of

24  the area proposed to be annexed.  The description shall

25  include a map clearly showing the area and a statement that

26  the complete legal description by metes and bounds and the

27  ordinance can be obtained from the office of the city clerk.

28         (c)  On the day of the referendum on annexation there

29  shall be prominently displayed at each polling place a copy of

30  the ordinance of annexation and a description of the property

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  1  proposed to be annexed.  The description shall be by metes and

  2  bounds and shall include a map clearly showing such area.

  3         (d)  Ballots or mechanical voting devices used in the

  4  referendum on annexation shall offer the choice "For

  5  annexation of property described in ordinance number .... of

  6  the City of ...." and "Against annexation of property

  7  described in ordinance number .... of the City of ...." in

  8  that order.

  9         (e)  If the referendum is held only in the area

10  proposed to be annexed and receives a majority vote, or if the

11  ordinance is submitted to a separate vote of the registered

12  electors of the annexing municipality and the area proposed to

13  be annexed and there is a separate majority vote for

14  annexation in the annexing municipality and in the area

15  proposed to be annexed, the ordinance of annexation shall

16  become effective on the effective date specified therein. If

17  there is any majority vote against annexation, the ordinance

18  shall not become effective, and the area proposed to be

19  annexed shall not be the subject of an annexation ordinance by

20  the annexing municipality for a period of 2 years from the

21  date of the referendum on annexation.

22         (3)  Any parcel of land which is owned by one

23  individual, corporation, or legal entity, or owned

24  collectively by one or more individuals, corporations, or

25  legal entities, proposed to be annexed under the provisions of

26  this act shall not be severed, separated, divided, or

27  partitioned by the provisions of said ordinance, but shall, if

28  intended to be annexed, or if annexed, under the provisions of

29  this act, be annexed in its entirety and as a whole.  However,

30  nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the

31  validity or enforceability of any ordinance declaring an


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  1  intention to annex land under the existing law that has been

  2  enacted by a municipality prior to July 1, 1975. The owner of

  3  such property may waive the requirements of this subsection if

  4  such owner does not desire all of the tract or parcel included

  5  in said annexation.

  6         (4)  Except as otherwise provided in this law, the

  7  annexation procedure as set forth in this section shall

  8  constitute a uniform method for the adoption of an ordinance

  9  of annexation by the governing body of any municipality in

10  this state, and all existing provisions of special laws which

11  establish municipal annexation procedures are repealed hereby;

12  except that any provision or provisions of special law or laws

13  which prohibit annexation of territory that is separated from

14  the annexing municipality by a body of water or watercourse

15  shall not be repealed.

16         (5)  If more than 70 percent of the land in an area

17  proposed to be annexed is owned by individuals, corporations,

18  or legal entities which are not registered electors of such

19  area, such area shall not be annexed unless the owners of more

20  than 50 percent of the land in such area consent to such

21  annexation.  Such consent shall be obtained by the parties

22  proposing the annexation prior to the referendum to be held on

23  the annexation.

24         (6)  Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), if the

25  area proposed to be annexed does not have any registered

26  electors on the date the ordinance is finally adopted, a vote

27  of electors of the area proposed to be annexed is not

28  required. In addition to the requirements of subsection (5),

29  the area may not be annexed unless the owners of more than 50

30  percent of the parcels of land in the area proposed to be

31  annexed consent to the annexation. If the governing body does


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  1  not choose to hold a referendum of the annexing municipality

  2  is not required as well pursuant to subsection (2), then the

  3  property owner consents required pursuant to subsection (5)

  4  shall be obtained by the parties proposing the annexation

  5  prior to the final adoption of the ordinance, and the

  6  annexation ordinance shall be effective upon becoming a law or

  7  as otherwise provided in the ordinance.

  8         Section 13.  Efficiency and accountability in local

  9  government services.--

10         (1)  The intent of this section is to provide and

11  encourage a process that will:

12         (a)  Allow municipalities and counties to resolve

13  conflicts among local jurisdictions regarding the delivery and

14  financing of local services.

15         (b)  Increase local government efficiency and

16  accountability.

17         (c)  Provide greater flexibility in the use of local

18  revenue sources for local governments involved in the process.

19         (2)  Any county or combination of counties, and the

20  municipalities therein, may use the procedures provided by

21  this section to develop and adopt a plan to improve the

22  efficiency, accountability, and coordination of the delivery

23  of local government services. The development of such a plan

24  may be initiated by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of

25  the governing body of each of the counties involved, by

26  resolutions adopted by a majority vote of the governing bodies

27  of a majority of the municipalities within each county, or by

28  resolutions adopted by a majority vote of the governing bodies

29  of the municipality or combination of municipalities

30  representing a majority of the municipal population of each

31  county. The resolution shall create a commission which will be


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  1  responsible for developing the plan.  The resolution shall

  2  specify the composition of the commission, which shall include

  3  representatives of county and municipal governments, of any

  4  affected special districts, and of any other relevant local

  5  government entities or agencies.  The resolution must include

  6  a proposed timetable for development of the plan and must

  7  specify the local government support and personnel services

  8  that will be made available to the representatives developing

  9  the plan.

10         (3)  Upon adoption of a resolution or resolutions as

11  provided in subsection (2), the designated representatives

12  shall develop a plan for delivery of local government

13  services. The plan must:

14         (a)  Designate the areawide and local government

15  services that are the subject of the plan.

16         (b)  Describe the existing organization of such

17  services and the means of financing the services, and create a

18  reorganization of such services and the financing thereof that

19  will meet the goals of this section.

20         (c)  Designate the local agency that should be

21  responsible for the delivery of each service.

22         (d)  Designate those services that should be delivered

23  regionally or countywide. No provision of the plan shall

24  operate to restrict the power of a municipality to finance and

25  deliver services in addition to, or at a higher level than,

26  the services designated for regional or countywide delivery

27  under this paragraph.

28         (e)  Provide means to reduce the cost of providing

29  local services and enhance the accountability of service

30  providers.

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  1         (f)  Include a multiyear capital outlay plan for

  2  infrastructure.

  3         (g)  Specifically describe any expansion of municipal

  4  boundaries that would further the goals of this section. Any

  5  area proposed to be annexed must meet the standards for

  6  annexation provided in chapter 171, Florida Statutes. The plan

  7  shall not contain any provision for contraction of municipal

  8  boundaries or elimination of any municipality.

  9         (h)  Provide specific procedures for modification or

10  termination of the plan.

11         (i)  Specify any special act modifications which must

12  be made to effectuate the plan.

13         (j)  Specify the effective date of the plan.

14         (4)(a)  A plan developed pursuant to this section must

15  conform to all comprehensive plans that have been found to be

16  in compliance under part II of chapter 163, Florida Statutes,

17  for the local governments participating in the plan.

18         (b)  No provision of a plan developed pursuant to this

19  section shall restrict the authority of any state or regional

20  governmental agency to perform any duty required to be

21  performed by that agency by law.

22         (5)(a)  A plan developed pursuant to this section must

23  be approved by a majority vote of the governing body of each

24  county involved in the plan, and by a majority vote of the

25  governing bodies of a majority of municipalities in each

26  county, and by a majority vote of the governing bodies of the

27  municipality or municipalities that represent a majority of

28  the municipal population of each county.

29         (b)  After approval by the county and municipal

30  governing bodies as required by paragraph (a), the plan shall

31  be submitted for referendum approval in a countywide election


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  1  in each county involved. The plan shall not take effect unless

  2  approved by a majority of the electors of each county who vote

  3  in the referendum, and also by a majority of the electors of

  4  the municipalities that represent a majority of the municipal

  5  population of each county who vote in the referendum. If

  6  approved by the electors as required by this paragraph, the

  7  plan shall take effect on the date specified in the plan.

  8         (6)  If the plan calls for merger or dissolution of

  9  special districts, such merger or dissolution shall comply

10  with the provisions of chapter 189, Florida Statutes.

11         (7)  If a plan developed pursuant to this section

12  includes areas proposed for municipal annexation which meet

13  the standards for annexation provided in chapter 171, Florida

14  Statutes, such annexation shall take effect upon approval of

15  the plan as provided in this section, notwithstanding the

16  procedures for approval of municipal annexation specified in

17  chapter 171, Florida Statutes.

18         Section 14.  Subsection (2) of section 170.201, Florida

19  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

20         170.201  Special assessments.--

21         (2)  Property owned or occupied by a religious

22  institution and used as a place of worship or education; by a

23  public or private elementary, middle, or high school; or by a

24  governmentally financed, insured, or subsidized housing

25  facility that is used primarily for persons who are elderly or

26  disabled shall be exempt from any special assessment levied by

27  a municipality to fund any service emergency medical services

28  if the municipality so desires.  As used in this subsection,

29  the term "religious institution" means any church, synagogue,

30  or other established physical place for worship at which

31  nonprofit religious services and activities are regularly


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  1  conducted and carried on and the term "governmentally

  2  financed, insured, or subsidized housing facility" means a

  3  facility that is financed by a mortgage loan made or insured

  4  by the United States Department of Housing and Urban

  5  Development under s. 8, s. 202, s. 221(d)(3) or (4), s. 232,

  6  or s. 236 of the National Housing Act and is owned or operated

  7  by an entity that qualifies as an exempt charitable

  8  organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

  9         Section 15.  Section 196.1978, Florida Statutes, is

10  created to read:

11         196.1978  Low-income housing property

12  exemption.--Property used to provide housing pursuant to any

13  state housing program authorized under chapter 420 to

14  low-income or very-low-income persons as defined by s.

15  420.0004, which property is owned entirely by a nonprofit

16  corporation which is qualified as charitable under s.

17  501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which complies with

18  Rev. Proc. 96-32, 1996-1 C.B. 717, shall be considered

19  property owned by an exempt entity and used for a charitable

20  purpose, and such property shall be exempt from ad valorem

21  taxation to the extent authorized in s. 196.196. All property

22  identified in this section shall comply with the criteria for

23  determination of exempt status to be applied by property

24  appraisers on an annual basis as defined in s. 196.195.

25         Section 16.  Subsection (10) of section 220.02, Florida

26  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

27         220.02  Legislative intent.--

28         (10)  It is the intent of the Legislature that credits

29  against either the corporate income tax or the franchise tax

30  be applied in the following order: those enumerated in s.

31  220.68, those enumerated in s. 220.18, those enumerated in s.


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  1  631.828, those enumerated in s. 220.191, those enumerated in

  2  s. 220.181, those enumerated in s. 220.183, those enumerated

  3  in s. 220.182, those enumerated in s. 220.1895, those

  4  enumerated in s. 221.02, those enumerated in s. 220.184, those

  5  enumerated in s. 220.186, those enumerated in s. 220.188,

  6  those enumerated in s. 220.1845, and those enumerated in s.

  7  220.19, and those enumerated in s. 220.185.

  8         Section 17.  Effective July 1, 2000, subsection (10) of

  9  section 220.02, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, as amended

10  by chapter 98-132, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

11         220.02  Legislative intent.--

12         (10)  It is the intent of the Legislature that credits

13  against either the corporate income tax or the franchise tax

14  be applied in the following order: those enumerated in s.

15  220.18, those enumerated in s. 631.828, those enumerated in s.

16  220.191, those enumerated in s. 220.181, those enumerated in

17  s. 220.183, those enumerated in s. 220.182, those enumerated

18  in s. 220.1895, those enumerated in s. 221.02, those

19  enumerated in s. 220.184, those enumerated in s. 220.186,

20  those enumerated in s. 220.188, those enumerated in s.

21  220.1845, and those enumerated in s. 220.19, and those

22  enumerated in s. 220.185.

23         Section 18.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

24  220.13, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

25         220.13  "Adjusted federal income" defined.--

26         (1)  The term "adjusted federal income" means an amount

27  equal to the taxpayer's taxable income as defined in

28  subsection (2), or such taxable income of more than one

29  taxpayer as provided in s. 220.131, for the taxable year,

30  adjusted as follows:

31


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  1         (a)  Additions.--There shall be added to such taxable

  2  income:

  3         1.  The amount of any tax upon or measured by income,

  4  excluding taxes based on gross receipts or revenues, paid or

  5  accrued as a liability to the District of Columbia or any

  6  state of the United States which is deductible from gross

  7  income in the computation of taxable income for the taxable

  8  year.

  9         2.  The amount of interest which is excluded from

10  taxable income under s. 103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code or

11  any other federal law, less the associated expenses disallowed

12  in the computation of taxable income under s. 265 of the

13  Internal Revenue Code or any other law, excluding 60 percent

14  of any amounts included in alternative minimum taxable income,

15  as defined in s. 55(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, if the

16  taxpayer pays tax under s. 220.11(3).

17         3.  In the case of a regulated investment company or

18  real estate investment trust, an amount equal to the excess of

19  the net long-term capital gain for the taxable year over the

20  amount of the capital gain dividends attributable to the

21  taxable year.

22         4.  That portion of the wages or salaries paid or

23  incurred for the taxable year which is equal to the amount of

24  the credit allowable for the taxable year under s. 220.181.

25  The provisions of this subparagraph shall expire and be void

26  on June 30, 2005.

27         5.  That portion of the ad valorem school taxes paid or

28  incurred for the taxable year which is equal to the amount of

29  the credit allowable for the taxable year under s. 220.182.

30  The provisions of this subparagraph shall expire and be void

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  1         6.  The amount of emergency excise tax paid or accrued

  2  as a liability to this state under chapter 221 which tax is

  3  deductible from gross income in the computation of taxable

  4  income for the taxable year.

  5         7.  That portion of assessments to fund a guaranty

  6  association incurred for the taxable year which is equal to

  7  the amount of the credit allowable for the taxable year.

  8         8.  In the case of a nonprofit corporation which holds

  9  a pari-mutuel permit and which is exempt from federal income

10  tax as a farmers' cooperative, an amount equal to the excess

11  of the gross income attributable to the pari-mutuel operations

12  over the attributable expenses for the taxable year.

13         9.  The amount taken as a credit for the taxable year

14  under s. 220.1895.

15         10.  Up to nine percent of the eligible basis of any

16  designated project which is equal to the credit allowable for

17  the taxable year under s. 220.185.

18         Section 19.  Section 220.185, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         220.185  State housing tax credit.--

21         (1)  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.--The Legislature finds that:

22         (a)  There exist within the urban areas of the state

23  conditions of blight evidenced by extensive deterioration of

24  public and private facilities, abandonment of sound

25  structures, and high unemployment, and these conditions impede

26  the conservation and development of healthy, safe, and

27  economically viable communities.

28         (b)  Deterioration of housing and industrial,

29  commercial, and public facilities contributes to the decline

30  of neighborhoods and communities and leads to the loss of

31  their historic character and the sense of community which this


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  1  inspires; reduces the value of property comprising the tax

  2  base of local communities; discourages private investment; and

  3  requires a disproportionate expenditure of public funds for

  4  the social services, unemployment benefits, and police

  5  protection required to combat the social and economic problems

  6  found in urban communities.

  7         (c)  In order to ultimately restore social and economic

  8  viability to urban areas, it is necessary to renovate or

  9  construct new infrastructure and housing, including housing

10  specifically targeted for the elderly, and to specifically

11  provide mechanisms to attract and encourage private economic

12  activity.

13         (d)  The various local governments and other

14  redevelopment organizations now undertaking physical

15  revitalization projects and new housing developments in urban

16  areas are limited by tightly constrained budgets and

17  inadequate resources.

18         (e)  In order to significantly improve revitalization

19  efforts by local governments and community development

20  organizations and to retain as much of the historic character

21  of our communities as possible, it is necessary to provide

22  additional resources, and the participation of private

23  enterprise in revitalization efforts is an effective means for

24  accomplishing that goal.

25         (2)  POLICY AND PURPOSE.--It is the policy of this

26  state to encourage the participation of private corporations

27  in revitalization projects within urban areas. The purpose of

28  this section is to provide an incentive for such participation

29  by granting state corporate income tax credits to qualified

30  low-income housing projects, including housing specifically

31  designed for the elderly, and associated mixed-use projects.


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  1  The Legislature thus declares this a public purpose for which

  2  public money may be borrowed, expended, loaned, and granted.

  3         (3)  DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term:

  4         (a)  "Credit period" means the period of 5 years

  5  beginning with the year the project is completed.

  6         (b)  "Eligible basis" means a project's adjusted basis

  7  of the housing portion of the qualified project as of the

  8  close of the first taxable year of the credit period.

  9         (c)  "Adjusted basis" means the owner's adjusted basis

10  in the project, calculated in a manner consistent with the

11  calculation of basis under the Internal Revenue Code, taking

12  into account the adjusted basis of property of a character

13  subject to the allowance for depreciation used in common areas

14  or provided as comparable amenities to the entire project.

15         (d)  "Designated project" means a qualified project

16  designated pursuant to s. 420.5093 to receive the tax credit

17  under this section.

18         (e)  "Qualified project" means a project located in an

19  urban infill area, at least 50 percent of which, on a cost

20  basis, consists of a qualified low-income project within the

21  meaning of s. 42(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, including

22  such projects designed specifically for the elderly but

23  excluding any income restrictions imposed pursuant to s. 42(g)

24  of the Internal Revenue Code upon residents of the project

25  unless such restrictions are otherwise established by the

26  Florida Housing Finance Corporation pursuant to s. 420.5093,

27  and the remainder of which constitutes commercial or

28  single-family residential development consistent with and

29  serving to complement the qualified low-income project.

30         (f)  "Urban infill area" means an area designated for

31  urban infill as defined by s. 163.3164 or as defined through a


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  1  statewide urban infill study solicited and approved by the

  2  Board of Directors of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation.

  3         (4)  AUTHORIZATION TO GRANT STATE HOUSING TAX CREDITS;

  4  LIMITATION.--

  5         (a)  There shall be allowed a credit of up to 9

  6  percent, but no more than necessary to make the project

  7  feasible, of the eligible basis of any designated project for

  8  each year of the credit period against any tax due for a

  9  taxable year under this chapter.

10         (b)  The total amount of tax credits allocated for all

11  projects shall not exceed the amount appropriated for the

12  State Housing Tax Credit Program in the General Appropriations

13  Act. The total tax credits allocated is defined as the total

14  credits pledged over a 5-year period for all projects.

15         (c)  The tax credit shall be allocated among designated

16  projects by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation as

17  provided in s. 420.5093.

18         (d)  Each designated project must comply with the

19  applicable provisions of s. 42 of the Internal Revenue Code

20  with respect to the multifamily residential rental housing

21  element of the project, including specifically the provisions

22  of s. 42(h)(6).

23         (e)  A tax credit shall be allocated to a designated

24  project and shall not be subject to transfer by the recipient

25  unless the transferee is also an owner of the designated

26  project.

27         Section 20.  Section 420.5093, Florida Statutes, is

28  created to read:

29         420.5093  State Housing Tax Credit Program.--

30         (1)  There is created the State Housing Tax Credit

31  Program for the purposes of stimulating creative private


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  1  sector initiatives to increase the supply of affordable

  2  housing in urban areas, including specifically housing for the

  3  elderly, and to provide associated commercial facilities

  4  associated with such housing facilities.

  5         (2)  The Florida Housing Finance Corporation shall

  6  determine those qualified projects which shall be considered

  7  designated projects under s. 220.185 and eligible for the

  8  corporate tax credit under that section. The corporation shall

  9  establish procedures necessary for proper allocation and

10  distribution of state housing tax credits, including the

11  establishment of criteria for any single-family or commercial

12  component of a project, and may exercise all powers necessary

13  to administer the allocation of such credits. The board of

14  directors of the corporation shall administer the allocation

15  procedures and determine allocations on behalf of the

16  corporation. The corporation shall prepare an annual plan,

17  which must be approved by the Governor, containing general

18  guidelines for the allocation and distribution of credits to

19  designated projects.

20         (3)  The corporation shall adopt allocation procedures

21  that will ensure the maximum use of available tax credits in

22  order to encourage development of low-income housing and

23  associated mixed-use projects in urban areas, taking into

24  consideration the timeliness of the application, the location

25  of the proposed project, the relative need in the area of

26  revitalization and low-income housing and the availability of

27  such housing, the economic feasibility of the project, and the

28  ability of the applicant to proceed to completion of the

29  project in the calendar year for which the credit is sought.

30         (4)(a)  A taxpayer who wishes to participate in the

31  State Housing Tax Credit Program must submit an application


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  1  for tax credit to the corporation. The application shall

  2  identify the project and its location and include evidence

  3  that the project is a qualified project as defined in s.

  4  220.185. The corporation may request any information from an

  5  applicant necessary to enable the corporation to make tax

  6  credit allocations according to the guidelines set forth in

  7  subsection (3).

  8         (b)  The corporation's approval of an applicant as a

  9  designated project shall be in writing and shall include a

10  statement of the maximum credit allowable to the applicant. A

11  copy of this approval shall be transmitted to the executive

12  director of the Department of Revenue, who shall apply the tax

13  credit to the tax liability of the applicant.

14         (5)  For purposes of implementing this program and

15  assessing the property for ad valorem taxation under s.

16  193.011, neither the tax credits nor financing generated by

17  tax credits shall be considered as income to the property, and

18  the rental income from rent-restricted units in a state

19  housing tax credit development shall be recognized by the

20  property appraiser.

21         (6)  The corporation is authorized to expend fees

22  received in conjunction with the allocation of state housing

23  tax credits only for the purpose of administration of the

24  program, including private legal services which relate to

25  interpretation of s. 42 of the Internal Revenue Code.

26         Section 21.  Subsection (19) of section 420.503,

27  Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

28         420.503  Definitions.--As used in this part, the term:

29         (19)  "Housing for the elderly" means, for purposes of

30  s. 420.5087(3)(c)2., any nonprofit housing community that is

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  1  States Department of Housing and Urban Development under s.

  2  202, s. 202 with a s. 8 subsidy, s. 221(d)(3) or (4), or s.

  3  236 of the National Housing Act, as amended, and that is

  4  subject to income limitations established by the United States

  5  Department of Housing and Urban Development, or any program

  6  funded by the Rural Development Agency of the United States

  7  Department of Agriculture and subject to income limitations

  8  established by the United States Department of Agriculture. A

  9  project which qualifies for an exemption under the Fair

10  Housing Act as housing for older persons as defined by s.

11  760.29(4) shall qualify as housing for the elderly for

12  purposes of s. 420.5087(3)(c)2. In addition, if the

13  corporation adopts a qualified allocation plan pursuant to s.

14  42(m)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code or any other rules

15  that prioritize projects targeting the elderly for purposes of

16  allocating tax credits pursuant to s. 420.5099 or for purposes

17  of the HOME program under s. 420.5089, a project which

18  qualifies for an exemption under the Fair Housing Act as

19  housing for older persons as defined by s. 760.29(4) shall

20  qualify as a project targeted for the elderly, if the project

21  satisfies the other requirements set forth in this part.

22         Section 22.  Subsections (1) and (5) of section

23  420.5087, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, are amended to

24  read:

25         420.5087  State Apartment Incentive Loan

26  Program.--There is hereby created the State Apartment

27  Incentive Loan Program for the purpose of providing first,

28  second, or other subordinated mortgage loans or loan

29  guarantees to sponsors, including for-profit, nonprofit, and

30  public entities, to provide housing affordable to

31  very-low-income persons.


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  1         (1)  Program funds shall be distributed over successive

  2  3-year periods in a manner that meets the need and demand for

  3  very-low-income housing throughout the state.  That need and

  4  demand must be determined by using the most recent statewide

  5  low-income rental housing market studies available at the

  6  beginning of each 3-year period.  However, at least 10 percent

  7  of the program funds distributed during a 3-year period must

  8  be allocated to each of the following categories of counties,

  9  as determined by using the population statistics published in

10  the most recent edition of the Florida Statistical Abstract:

11         (a)  Counties that have a population of more than

12  500,000 people;

13         (b)  Counties that have a population between 100,000

14  and 500,000 people; and

15         (c)  Counties that have a population of 100,000 or

16  less.

17

18  Any increase in funding required to reach the 10-percent

19  minimum shall be taken from the county category that has the

20  largest allocation. The corporation shall adopt rules which

21  establish an equitable process for distributing any portion of

22  the 10 percent of program funds allocated to the county

23  categories specified in this subsection which remains

24  unallocated at the end of a 3-year period.  Counties that have

25  a population of 100,000 or less shall be given preference

26  under these rules.

27         (5)  The amount of the mortgage provided under this

28  program combined with any other mortgage in a superior

29  position shall be less than the value of the project without

30  the housing set-aside required by subsection (2). However, the

31  corporation may waive this requirement for projects in rural


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  1  areas or urban infill areas which have market rate rents that

  2  are less than the allowable rents pursuant to applicable state

  3  and federal guidelines. In no event shall the mortgage

  4  provided under this program combined with any other mortgage

  5  in a superior position exceed total project cost.

  6         Section 23.  Sections 420.630, 420.631, 420.632,

  7  420.633, 420.634, and 420.635, Florida Statutes, are created

  8  to read:

  9         420.630  Short title.--Sections 420.630-420.635 may be

10  cited as the "Urban Homesteading Act."

11         420.631  Definitions.--As used in ss. 420.630-420.635:

12         (1)  "Authority" or "housing authority" means any of

13  the public corporations created under s. 421.04.

14         (2)  "Department" means the Department of Community

15  Affairs.

16         (3)  "Homestead agreement" means a written contract

17  between a local government or its designee and a qualified

18  buyer which contains the terms under which the qualified buyer

19  may acquire a single-family housing property.

20         (4)  "Local government" means any county or

21  incorporated municipality within this state.

22         (5)  "Designee" means a housing authority appointed by

23  a local government, or a nonprofit community organization

24  appointed by a local government, to administer the urban

25  homesteading program for single-family housing under ss.

26  420.630-420.635.

27         (6)  "Nonprofit community organization" means an

28  organization that is exempt from taxation under s. 501(c)(3)

29  of the Internal Revenue Code. 

30         (7)  "Office" means the Office of Urban Opportunity

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  1         (8)  "Qualified buyer" means a person who meets the

  2  criteria under s. 420.633.

  3         (9)  "Qualified loan rate" means an interest rate that

  4  does not exceed the interest rate charged for home improvement

  5  loans by the Federal Housing Administration under Title I of

  6  the National Housing Act, ch. 847, 48 Stat. 1246, or 12 U.S.C.

  7  ss. 1702, 1703, 1705, and 1706b et seq.

  8         420.632  Authority to operate.--By resolution, subject

  9  to federal and state law, and in consultation with the Office

10  of Urban Opportunity, a local government or its designee may

11  operate a program that makes foreclosed single-family housing

12  properties available to qualified buyers to purchase. This

13  urban homesteading program is intended to be one component of

14  a comprehensive urban-core redevelopment initiative known as

15  Front Porch Florida, implemented by the Office of Urban

16  Opportunity.

17         420.633  Eligibility.--An applicant is eligible to

18  enter into a homestead agreement to acquire single-family

19  housing property as a qualified buyer under ss.

20  420.630-420.635 if:

21         (1)  The applicant or his or her spouse is employed and

22  has been employed for the immediately preceding 12 months;

23         (2)  The applicant or his or her spouse has not been

24  convicted of a drug-related felony within the immediately

25  preceding 3 years;

26         (3)  All school-age children of the applicant or his or

27  her spouse who will reside in the single-family housing

28  property attend school regularly; and

29         (4)  The applicant and his or her spouse have incomes

30  below the median for the state, as determined by the United

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  1  families with the same number of family members as the

  2  applicant and his or her spouse.

  3         420.634  Application process; deed to qualified

  4  buyer.--

  5         (1)  A qualified buyer may apply to a local government

  6  or its designee to acquire single-family housing property. The

  7  application must be in a form and in a manner provided by the

  8  local government or its designee. If the application is

  9  approved, the qualified buyer and the local government or its

10  designee shall enter into a homestead agreement for the

11  single-family housing property. The local government or its

12  designee may add additional terms and conditions to the

13  homestead agreement.

14         (2)  The local government or its designee shall deed or

15  cause to be deeded the single-family housing property to the

16  qualified buyer for $1 if the qualified buyer:

17         (a)  Is in compliance with the terms of the homestead

18  agreement for at least 5 years or has resided in the

19  single-family housing property before the local government or

20  its designee adopts the urban homesteading program;

21         (b)  Resides in that property for at least 5 years;

22         (c)  Meets the criteria in the homestead agreement; and

23         (d)  Has otherwise promptly met his or her financial

24  obligations with the local government or its designee.

25

26  However, if the local government or its designee has received

27  federal funds for which bonds or notes were issued and those

28  bonds or notes are outstanding for the housing project where

29  the single-family housing property is located, the local

30  government or its designee shall deed the property to the

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  1  bonded debt on that specific property by the qualified buyer.

  2  The local government or its designee shall obtain the

  3  appropriate releases from the holders of the bonds or notes.

  4         420.635  Loans to qualified buyers.--Contingent upon an

  5  appropriation, the department, in consultation with the Office

  6  of Urban Opportunity, shall provide loans to qualified buyers

  7  who are required to pay the pro rata portion of the bonded

  8  debt on single-family housing pursuant to s. 420.634. Loans

  9  provided under this section shall be made at a rate of

10  interest which does not exceed the qualified loan rate. A

11  buyer must maintain the qualifications specified in s. 420.633

12  for the full term of the loan. The loan agreement may contain

13  additional terms and conditions as determined by the

14  department.

15         Section 24.  Subsection (8) of section 235.193, Florida

16  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

17         235.193  Coordination of planning with local governing

18  bodies.--

19         (8)  Existing schools shall be considered consistent

20  with the applicable local government comprehensive plan

21  adopted under part II of chapter 163. The collocation of a new

22  proposed public educational facility with an existing public

23  educational facility, or the expansion of an existing public

24  educational facility is not inconsistent with the local

25  comprehensive plan, if the site is consistent with the

26  comprehensive plan's future land use policies and categories

27  in which public schools are identified as allowable uses, and

28  levels of service adopted by the local government for any

29  facilities affected by the proposed location for the new

30  facility are maintained. If a board submits an application to

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  1  impose reasonable development standards and conditions on the

  2  expansion only, and in a manner consistent with s.235.34(1).

  3  Standards and conditions may not be imposed which conflict

  4  with those established in this chapter or the State Uniform

  5  Building Code, unless mutually agreed. Local government review

  6  or approval is not required for:

  7         (a)  The placement of temporary or portable classroom

  8  facilities; or

  9         (b)  Proposed renovation or construction on existing

10  school sites, with the exception of construction that changes

11  the primary use of a facility, includes stadiums, or results

12  in a greater than 5 percent increase in student capacity, or

13  as mutually agreed.

14         Section 25.  Section 2 of Senate Bill 182, enacted in

15  the 1999 Regular Session of the Legislature, is amended to

16  read:

17         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999 on

18  the effective date of Senate Bill 178, relating to wireless

19  emergency 911 telephone service, but it shall not take effect

20  unless it is enacted by at least a three fifths vote of the

21  membership of each house of the Legislature.

22         Section 26.  The sum of $2.5 million is appropriated

23  from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Community

24  Affairs for the purpose of funding the state housing tax

25  credit as provided in section 220.185, Florida Statutes.

26         Section 27.  The sum of $2.5 million is appropriated

27  from nonrecurring general revenue to the Department of

28  Community Affairs for the purpose of funding the Urban Infill

29  and Redevelopment Grant Program under section 163.2523,

30  Florida Statutes.

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  1         Section 28.  Before December 31, 1999, any municipality

  2  an area of which has previously received designation as an

  3  Enterprise Zone in the population category described in

  4  section 290.0065(3)(a)3., Florida Statutes, may create a

  5  satellite enterprise zone not exceeding 1.5 square miles in

  6  area outside of and, notwithstanding anything contained in

  7  section 290.0055(4), Florida Statutes, or any other law, in

  8  addition to the previously designated enterprise zone

  9  boundaries. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic

10  Development shall amend the boundaries of the areas previously

11  designated by any such municipality as enterprise zones upon

12  receipt of a resolution adopted by the municipality describing

13  the satellite enterprise zone areas, as long as the additional

14  areas are consistent with the categories, criteria, and

15  limitations imposed by section 290.0055, Florida Statutes.

16  However, the requirements imposed by section 290.0055(4)(d),

17  Florida Statutes, do not apply to such satellite enterprise

18  zone areas.

19         Section 29.  Section 170.09, Florida Statutes, is

20  amended to read:

21         170.09  Priority of lien; interest; and method of

22  payment.--The special assessments shall be payable at the time

23  and in the manner stipulated in the resolution providing for

24  the improvement; shall remain liens, coequal with the lien of

25  all state, county, district, and municipal taxes, superior in

26  dignity to all other liens, titles, and claims, until paid;

27  shall bear interest, at a rate not to exceed 8 percent per

28  year, or, if bonds are issued pursuant to this chapter, at a

29  rate not to exceed 1 percent above the rate of interest at

30  which the improvement bonds authorized pursuant to this

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  1  of the acceptance of the improvement; and may, by the

  2  resolution aforesaid and only for capital outlay projects, be

  3  made payable in equal installments over a period not to exceed

  4  30 20 years notwithstanding any special act to the contrary,

  5  to which, if not paid when due, there shall be added a penalty

  6  at the rate of 1 percent per month, until paid. However, the

  7  assessments may be paid without interest at any time within 30

  8  days after the improvement is completed and a resolution

  9  accepting the same has been adopted by the governing

10  authority.

11         Section 30.  Subsection (2) of section 189.4031,

12  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         189.4031  Special districts; creation, dissolution, and

14  reporting requirements; charter requirements.--

15         (2)  Notwithstanding any general law, special act, or

16  ordinance of a local government to the contrary, any

17  independent special district charter enacted after the

18  effective date of this section shall contain the information

19  required by s. 189.404(3). Recognizing that the exclusive

20  charter for a community development district is the statutory

21  charter contained in ss. 190.006 through 190.041, community

22  development districts established after July 1, 1980, pursuant

23  to the provisions of chapter 190 shall be deemed in compliance

24  with this requirement.

25         Section 31.  Subsections (5) and (6) of section

26  189.405, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, are renumbered as

27  subsections (6) and (7), respectively, and a new subsection

28  (5) is added to said section to read:

29         189.405  Elections; general requirements and

30  procedures.--

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  1         (5)(a) The department may provide, contract for, or

  2  assist in conducting education programs, as its budget

  3  permits, for all newly elected or appointed members of

  4  district boards.  The eduction programs shall include, but are

  5  not limited to, courses on the code of ethics for public

  6  officers and employees, public meetings and public records

  7  requirements, public finance, and parliamentary procedure.

  8  Course content may be offered by means of the following:

  9  videotapes, live seminars, workshops, conferences,

10  teleconferences, computer-based training, multimedia

11  presentations, or other available instructional methods.

12         (b) An individual district board, at its discretion,

13  may bear the costs associated with educating its members.

14  Board members of districts which have qualified for a zero

15  annual fee for the most recent invoicing period pursuant to s.

16  189.427 shall not be required to pay a fee for any education

17  program the department provides, contracts for, or assists in

18  conducting.

19         Section 32.  Subsection (7) of section 189.412, Florida

20  Statutes, is amended to read:

21         189.412  Special District Information Program; duties

22  and responsibilities.--The Special District Information

23  Program of the Department of Community Affairs is created and

24  has the following special duties:

25         (7)  The provision of assistance related to and

26  appropriate in the performance of requirements specified in

27  this chapter, including assisting with an annual conference

28  sponsored by the Florida Association of Special Districts or

29  its successor.

30         Section 33.  Subsection (1) of section 189.417, Florida

31  Statutes, is amended to read:


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  1         189.417  Meetings; notice; required reports.--

  2         (1)  The governing body of each special district shall

  3  file quarterly, semiannually, or annually a schedule of its

  4  regular meetings with the local governing authority or

  5  authorities.  The schedule shall include the date, time, and

  6  location of each scheduled meeting. The schedule shall be

  7  published quarterly, semiannually, or annually in a newspaper

  8  of general paid circulation in the manner required in this

  9  subsection. The governing body of an independent special

10  district shall advertise the day, time, place, and purpose of

11  any meeting other than a regular meeting or any recessed and

12  reconvened meeting of the governing body, at least 7 days

13  prior to such meeting, in a newspaper of general paid

14  circulation in the county or counties in which the special

15  district is located, unless a bona fide emergency situation

16  exists, in which case a meeting to deal with the emergency may

17  be held as necessary, with reasonable notice, so long as it is

18  subsequently ratified by the board. No approval of the annual

19  budget shall be granted at an emergency meeting.  The

20  advertisement shall be placed in that portion of the newspaper

21  where legal notices and classified advertisements appear.  The

22  advertisement shall appear in a newspaper that is published at

23  least 5 days a week, unless the only newspaper in the county

24  is published fewer than 5 days a week.  The newspaper selected

25  must be one of general interest and readership in the

26  community and not one of limited subject matter, pursuant to

27  chapter 50.  Any other provision of law to the contrary

28  notwithstanding, and except in the case of emergency meetings,

29  water management districts may provide reasonable notice of

30  public meetings held to evaluate responses to solicitations

31  issued by the water management district, by publication in a


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  1  newspaper of general paid circulation in the county where the

  2  principal office of the water management district is located,

  3  or in the county or counties where the public work will be

  4  performed, no less than 7 days before such meeting.

  5         (2)  All meetings of the governing body of the special

  6  district shall be open to the public and governed by the

  7  provisions of chapter 286.

  8         (3)  Meetings of the governing body of the special

  9  district shall be held in a public building when available

10  within the district, in a county courthouse of a county in

11  which the district is located, or in a building in the county

12  accessible to the public.

13         Section 34.  Subsection (3) of section 190.004, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (4) is added to said

15  section, to read:

16         190.004  Preemption; sole authority.--

17         (3)  The establishment creation of an independent

18  community development district as provided in this act is not

19  a development order within the meaning of chapter 380.  All

20  governmental planning, environmental, and land development

21  laws, regulations, and ordinances apply to all development of

22  the land within a community development district. Community

23  development districts do not have the power of a local

24  government to adopt a comprehensive plan, building code, or

25  land development code, as those terms are defined in the Local

26  Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development

27  Regulation Act.  A district shall take no action which is

28  inconsistent with applicable comprehensive plans, ordinances,

29  or regulations of the applicable local general-purpose

30  government.

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  1         (4)  The exclusive charter for a community development

  2  district shall be the uniform community development district

  3  charter as set forth in ss. 190.006 through 190.041, including

  4  the special powers provided by s. 190.012.

  5         Section 35.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (1) and

  6  subsection (3) of section 190.005, Florida Statutes, 1998

  7  Supplement, are amended to read:

  8         190.005  Establishment of district.--

  9         (1)  The exclusive and uniform method for the

10  establishment of a community development district with a size

11  of 1,000 acres or more shall be pursuant to a rule, adopted

12  under chapter 120 by the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

13  Commission, granting a petition for the establishment of a

14  community development district.

15         (e)  The Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission

16  shall consider the entire record of the local hearing, the

17  transcript of the hearing, resolutions adopted by local

18  general-purpose governments as provided in paragraph (c), and

19  the following factors and make a determination to grant or

20  deny a petition for the establishment of a community

21  development district:

22         1.  Whether all statements contained within the

23  petition have been found to be true and correct.

24         2.  Whether the establishment creation of the district

25  is inconsistent with any applicable element or portion of the

26  state comprehensive plan or of the effective local government

27  comprehensive plan.

28         3.  Whether the area of land within the proposed

29  district is of sufficient size, is sufficiently compact, and

30  is sufficiently contiguous to be developable as one functional

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  1         4.  Whether the district is the best alternative

  2  available for delivering community development services and

  3  facilities to the area that will be served by the district.

  4         5.  Whether the community development services and

  5  facilities of the district will be incompatible with the

  6  capacity and uses of existing local and regional community

  7  development services and facilities.

  8         6.  Whether the area that will be served by the

  9  district is amenable to separate special-district government.

10         (3)  The governing body of any existing special

11  district, created to provide one or more of the public

12  improvements and community facilities authorized by this act,

13  may petition, pursuant to this act, for reestablishment of the

14  existing district as a community development district pursuant

15  to this act. The petition shall contain the information

16  specified in subparagraphs (1)(a)1., 3., 4., 5., 6., and 7.

17  and shall not require payment of a fee pursuant to paragraph

18  (1)(b). In such case, the new district so formed shall assume

19  the existing obligations, indebtedness, and guarantees of

20  indebtedness of the district so subsumed, and the existing

21  district shall be terminated.

22         Section 36.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and

23  subsection (7) of section 190.006, Florida Statutes, are

24  amended to read:

25         190.006  Board of supervisors; members and meetings.--

26         (2)(a)  Within 90 days following the effective date of

27  the rule or ordinance establishing the district, there shall

28  be held a meeting of the landowners of the district for the

29  purpose of electing five supervisors for the district.  Notice

30  of the landowners' meeting shall be published once a week for

31  2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper which is in general


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  1  circulation in the area of the district, the last day of such

  2  publication to be not fewer than 14 days or more than 28 days

  3  before the date of the election.  The landowners, when

  4  assembled at such meeting, shall organize by electing a chair

  5  who shall conduct the meeting.

  6         (b)  At such meeting, each landowner shall be entitled

  7  to cast one vote per acre of land owned by him or her and

  8  located within the district for each person to be elected.  A

  9  landowner may vote in person or by proxy in writing. A

10  fraction of an acre shall be treated as 1 acre, entitling the

11  landowner to one vote with respect thereto.  The two

12  candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be

13  elected for a period of 4 years, and the three candidates

14  receiving the next largest number of votes shall be elected

15  for a period of 2 years. The members of the first board

16  elected by landowners shall serve their respective 4-year or

17  2-year terms; however, the next election by landowners shall

18  be held on the first Tuesday in November. Thereafter, there

19  shall be an election of supervisors for the district every 2

20  years on the first Tuesday in November on a date established

21  by the board and noticed pursuant to paragraph (a). The two

22  candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be

23  elected to serve for a 4-year period, and the remaining

24  candidate elected shall serve for a 2-year period.

25         (7)  The board shall keep a permanent record book

26  entitled "Record of Proceedings of ...(name of district)...

27  Community Development District," in which shall be recorded

28  minutes of all meetings, resolutions, proceedings,

29  certificates, bonds given by all employees, and any and all

30  corporate acts.  The record book shall at reasonable times be

31  opened to inspection in the same manner as state, county, and


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  1  municipal records pursuant to chapter 119.  The record book

  2  shall be kept at the office or other regular place of business

  3  maintained by the board in the county or municipality in which

  4  the district is located or within the boundaries of a

  5  development of regional impact or Florida Quality Development,

  6  or combination of a development of regional impact and Florida

  7  Quality Development, which includes the district.

  8         Section 37.  Subsection (1) of section 190.009, Florida

  9  Statutes, is amended to read:

10         190.009  Disclosure of public financing.--

11         (1)  The district shall take affirmative steps to

12  provide for the full disclosure of information relating to the

13  public financing and maintenance of improvements to real

14  property undertaken by the district. Such information shall be

15  made available to all existing residents, and to all

16  prospective residents, of the district.  The district shall

17  furnish each developer of a residential development within the

18  district with sufficient copies of that information to provide

19  each prospective initial purchaser of property in that

20  development with a copy, and any developer of a residential

21  development within the district, when required by law to

22  provide a public offering statement, shall include a copy of

23  such information relating to the public financing and

24  maintenance of improvements in the public offering statement.

25         Section 38.  Subsection (6) of section 190.011, Florida

26  Statutes, is amended to read:

27         190.011  General powers.--The district shall have, and

28  the board may exercise, the following powers:

29         (6)  To maintain an office at such place or places as

30  it may designate within a county in which the district is

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  1  impact or a Florida Quality Development, or a combination of a

  2  development of regional impact and a Florida Quality

  3  Development, which includes the district, which office must be

  4  reasonably accessible to the landowners. Meetings pursuant to

  5  s. 189.417(3) of a district within the boundaries of a

  6  development of regional impact or Florida Quality Development,

  7  or a combination of a development of regional impact and a

  8  Florida Quality Development, may be held at such office.

  9         Section 39.  Subsection (1) of section 190.012, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         190.012  Special powers; public improvements and

12  community facilities.--The district shall have, and the board

13  may exercise, subject to the regulatory jurisdiction and

14  permitting authority of all applicable governmental bodies,

15  agencies, and special districts having authority with respect

16  to any area included therein, any or all of the following

17  special powers relating to public improvements and community

18  facilities authorized by this act:

19         (1)  To finance, fund, plan, establish, acquire,

20  construct or reconstruct, enlarge or extend, equip, operate,

21  and maintain systems, and facilities, and basic

22  infrastructures for the following basic infrastructures:

23         (a)  Water management and control for the lands within

24  the district and to connect some or any of such facilities

25  with roads and bridges.

26         (b)  Water supply, sewer, and wastewater management,

27  reclamation, and reuse or any combination thereof, and to

28  construct and operate connecting intercepting or outlet sewers

29  and sewer mains and pipes and water mains, conduits, or

30  pipelines in, along, and under any street, alley, highway, or

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  1  other public place or ways, and to dispose of any effluent,

  2  residue, or other byproducts of such system or sewer system.

  3         (c)  Bridges or culverts that may be needed across any

  4  drain, ditch, canal, floodway, holding basin, excavation,

  5  public highway, tract, grade, fill, or cut and roadways over

  6  levees and embankments, and to construct any and all of such

  7  works and improvements across, through, or over any public

  8  right-of-way, highway, grade, fill, or cut.

  9         (d)1.  District roads equal to or exceeding the

10  specifications of the county in which such district roads are

11  located, and street lights.

12         2.  Buses, trolleys, transit shelters, ridesharing

13  facilities and services, parking improvements, and related

14  signage.

15         (e)  Conservation areas, mitigation areas, and wildlife

16  habitat, including the maintenance of any plant or animal

17  species, and any related interest in real or personal

18  property.

19         (f)(e)  Any other project within or without the

20  boundaries of a district when a local government issued a

21  development order pursuant to s. 380.06 or s. 380.061

22  approving or expressly requiring the construction or funding

23  of the project by the district, or when the project is the

24  subject of an agreement between the district and a

25  governmental entity and is consistent with the local

26  government comprehensive plan of the local government within

27  which the project is to be located.

28         Section 40.  Subsections (8) and (9) are added to

29  section 190.021, Florida Statutes, to read:

30         190.021  Taxes; non-ad valorem assessments.--

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  1         (8)  STATUS OF ASSESSMENTS.--Benefit special

  2  assessments, maintenance special assessments, and special

  3  assessments are non-ad valorem assessments as defined by s.

  4  197.3632.

  5         (9)  ASSESSMENTS CONSTITUTE LIENS; COLLECTION.--Benefit

  6  special assessments and maintenance special assessments

  7  authorized by this section, and special assessments authorized

  8  by s. 190.022, shall constitute a lien on the property against

  9  which assessed from the date of imposition thereof until paid,

10  co-equal with the lien of state, county, municipal, and school

11  board taxes. These non-ad valorem assessments may be

12  collected, at the district's discretion, by the tax collector

13  pursuant to the provisions of s. 197.363 or s. 197.3632, or in

14  accordance with other collection measures provided by law.

15         Section 41.  Section 190.022, Florida Statutes, is

16  amended to read:

17         190.022  Special assessments.--

18         (1)  The board may levy special assessments for the

19  construction, reconstruction, acquisition, or maintenance of

20  district facilities authorized under this chapter using the

21  procedures for levy and collection provided in chapter 170 or

22  chapter 197.

23         (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 170.09,

24  district assessments may be made payable in no more than 30 20

25  yearly installments.

26         Section 42.  Subsections (1) and (3) of section

27  190.033, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

28         190.033  Bids required.--

29         (1)  No contract shall be let by the board for the

30  construction of any project authorized by this act, nor shall

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  1  amount thereof to be paid by the district shall exceed the

  2  amount provided in s. 287.017 for category four $10,000,

  3  unless notice of bids shall be advertised once in a newspaper

  4  in general circulation in the county and in the district. Any

  5  board seeking to construct or improve a public building,

  6  structure, or other public works shall comply with the bidding

  7  procedures of s. 255.20 and other applicable general law. In

  8  each case, the bid of the lowest responsive and responsible

  9  bidder shall be accepted unless all bids are rejected because

10  the bids are too high, or the board determines it is in the

11  best interests of the district to reject all bids.  The board

12  may require the bidders to furnish bond with a responsible

13  surety to be approved by the board.  Nothing in this section

14  shall prevent the board from undertaking and performing the

15  construction, operation, and maintenance of any project or

16  facility authorized by this act by the employment of labor,

17  material, and machinery.

18         (3)  Contracts for maintenance services for any

19  district facility or project shall be subject to competitive

20  bidding requirements when the amount thereof to be paid by the

21  district exceeds the amount provided in s. 287.017(1) and (2)

22  for category four two.  The district shall adopt rules,

23  policies, or procedures establishing competitive bidding

24  procedures for maintenance services. Contracts for other

25  services shall not be subject to competitive bidding unless

26  the district adopts a rule, policy, or procedure applying

27  competitive bidding procedures to said contracts.

28         Section 43.  Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subsection (1)

29  and subsection (3) of section 190.046, Florida Statutes, are

30  amended to read:

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  1         190.046  Termination, contraction, or expansion of

  2  district.--

  3         (1)  The board may petition to contract or expand the

  4  boundaries of a community development district in the

  5  following manner:

  6         (e)  In all cases, written consent of all the

  7  landowners whose land is to be added to or deleted from the

  8  district shall be required. The filing of the petition for

  9  expansion or contraction by the district board of supervisors

10  shall constitute consent of the landowners within the district

11  other than of landowners whose land is proposed to be added to

12  or removed from the district.

13         (f)1.  During the existence of a the district initially

14  established by administrative rule, petitions to amend the

15  boundaries of the district pursuant to paragraphs (a)-(e)

16  shall be limited to a cumulative total of no more than 10

17  percent of the land in the initial district, and in no event

18  shall all such petitions to amend the boundaries ever

19  encompass more than a total of 250 acres.

20         2.  For districts initially established by county or

21  municipal ordinance, the limitation provided by this paragraph

22  shall be a cumulative total of no more than 50 percent of the

23  land in the initial district, and in no event shall all such

24  petitions to amend the boundaries ever encompass more than a

25  total of 500 acres.

26         3.  Boundary expansions for districts initially

27  established by county or municipal ordinance shall follow the

28  procedure set forth in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c).

29         (3)  The district may merge with other community

30  development districts upon filing a petition for establishment

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  1  may merge with any other special districts upon filing a

  2  petition for establishment of a community development district

  3  pursuant to s. 190.005.  The government formed by a merger

  4  involving a community development district pursuant to this

  5  section shall assume all indebtedness of, and receive title

  6  to, all property owned by the preexisting special districts.

  7  Prior to filing said petition, the districts desiring to merge

  8  shall enter into a merger agreement and shall provide for the

  9  proper allocation of the indebtedness so assumed and the

10  manner in which said debt shall be retired. The approval of

11  the merger agreement by the board of supervisors elected by

12  the electors of the district shall constitute consent of the

13  landowners within the district.

14         Section 44.  Section 190.048, Florida Statutes, is

15  amended to read:

16         190.048  Sale of real estate within a district;

17  required disclosure to purchaser.--Subsequent to the

18  establishment creation of a district under this chapter, each

19  contract for the initial sale of a parcel of real property and

20  each contract for the initial sale of a residential unit

21  estate within the district shall include, immediately prior to

22  the space reserved in the contract for the signature of the

23  purchaser, the following disclosure statement in boldfaced and

24  conspicuous type which is larger than the type in the

25  remaining text of the contract: "THE ...(Name of

26  District)...COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT MAY IMPOSE AND LEVY

27  IMPOSES TAXES OR ASSESSMENTS, OR BOTH TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS,

28  ON THIS PROPERTY THROUGH A SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT.  THESE

29  TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS PAY THE CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND

30  MAINTENANCE COSTS OF CERTAIN PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES OF

31  THE DISTRICT AND ARE SET ANNUALLY BY THE GOVERNING BOARD OF


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  1  THE DISTRICT.  THESE TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS ARE IN ADDITION TO

  2  COUNTY AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS AND

  3  ALL OTHER TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS PROVIDED FOR BY LAW."

  4         Section 45.  Section 190.0485, Florida Statutes, is

  5  created to read:

  6         190.0485  Notice of establishment.--Within 30 days

  7  after the effective date of a rule or ordinance establishing a

  8  community development district under this act, the district

  9  shall cause to be recorded in the property records in the

10  county in which it is located a "Notice of Establishment of

11  the      Community Development District."  The notice shall,

12  at a minimum, include the legal description of the district

13  and a copy of the disclosure statement specified in s.

14  190.048.

15         Section 46.  Each community development district in

16  existence on the effective date of this act shall record a

17  notice of establishment as specified in s. 190.0485, Florida

18  Statutes, as created by this act, within 90 days after that

19  date, unless the district has previously recorded a notice

20  that meets the requirements set forth in that section.

21         Section 47.  (1)  Section 190.049, Florida Statutes, is

22  amended to read:

23         190.049  Special acts prohibited.--Pursuant to s.

24  11(a)(21), Art. III of the State Constitution, there shall be

25  no special law or general law of local application creating an

26  independent special district which has the powers enumerated

27  in two or more of the paragraphs contained in s. 190.012,

28  unless such district is created pursuant to the provisions of

29  s. 189.404.

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