Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1124
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Altman moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 52 - 81
    4  and insert:
    5         (f) “Planned residential community” means a local
    6  government-approved, planned unit development having amenities
    7  that are designed to serve residents who have developmental
    8  disabilities and may contain two or more community residential
    9  homes, licensed by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities,
   10  which are contiguous to one another.
   11         (2) Homes of six or fewer residents which otherwise meet
   12  the definition of a community residential home shall be deemed a
   13  single-family unit and a noncommercial, residential use for the
   14  purpose of local laws and ordinances. Such homes of six or fewer
   15  residents which otherwise meet the definition of a community
   16  residential home:
   17         (a) Shall be allowed in single-family or multifamily zoning
   18  without approval by the local government approval if they are,
   19  provided that such homes shall not be located within a radius of
   20  1,000 feet of another existing such home that has with six or
   21  fewer residents. Such homes are with six or fewer residents
   22  shall not be required to comply with the notification provisions
   23  of this section if; provided that, prior to licensure, the
   24  sponsoring agency provides the local government with the most
   25  recently published data compiled from the licensing entities
   26  that identifies all community residential homes within the
   27  jurisdictional limits of the local government in which the
   28  proposed site is to be located in order to show that no other
   29  community residential home is within a radius of 1,000 feet of
   30  the proposed home with six or fewer residents. At the time of
   31  home occupancy, the sponsoring agency must notify the local
   32  government that the home is licensed by the licensing entity.
   33         (b) If located within a planned residential community, do
   34  not require local government approval regardless of their
   35  proximity to each other. This subsection does not limit the
   36  authority of a local government to approve or deny a planned
   37  unit development.