Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2614
       
       
       
       By Senator Crist
       
       
       
       
       12-01865A-10                                          20102614__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to applications for specified housing
    3         arrangements; amending s. 419.001, F.S.; requiring a
    4         sponsoring agency to notify the local government when
    5         a request to locate a home with six or fewer residents
    6         which otherwise meets the definition of a community
    7         residential home has been submitted; requiring the
    8         agency to provide additional information in the
    9         notification; providing an effective date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 419.001, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         419.001 Site selection of community residential homes.—
   16         (2) Homes of six or fewer residents which otherwise meet
   17  the definition of a community residential home shall be deemed a
   18  single-family unit and a noncommercial, residential use for the
   19  purpose of local laws and ordinances. Homes of six or fewer
   20  residents which otherwise meet the definition of a community
   21  residential home shall be allowed in single-family or
   22  multifamily zoning without approval by the local government,
   23  provided that such homes shall not be located within a radius of
   24  1,000 feet of another existing such home with six or fewer
   25  residents. At the time of application, the sponsoring agency
   26  must notify the local government that there is a request to
   27  locate a home with six or fewer residents which otherwise meets
   28  the definition of a community residential home within the
   29  jurisdictional limits of the local government. The notification
   30  must include the proposed home’s address and Such homes with six
   31  or fewer residents shall not be required to comply with the
   32  notification provisions of this section; provided that, prior to
   33  licensure, the sponsoring agency provides the local government
   34  with the most recently published data compiled from the
   35  licensing entities that identifies all community residential
   36  homes within the jurisdictional limits of the local government
   37  in which the proposed site is to be located in order to show
   38  that no other community residential home is within a radius of
   39  1,000 feet of the proposed home with six or fewer residents. At
   40  the time of home occupancy, the sponsoring agency must notify
   41  the local government that the home is licensed by the licensing
   42  entity.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.