Florida Senate - 2009 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 2148
Barcode 857832
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/24/2009 .
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The Committee on Community Affairs (Bennett) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment
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3 Between lines 149 and 150
4 insert:
5 (a) A future land use plan element designating proposed
6 future general distribution, location, and extent of the uses of
7 land for residential uses, commercial uses, industry,
8 agriculture, recreation, conservation, education, public
9 buildings and grounds, other public facilities, and other
10 categories of the public and private uses of land. Counties are
11 encouraged to designate rural land stewardship areas, pursuant
12 to the provisions of paragraph (11)(d), as overlays on the
13 future land use map. Each future land use category must be
14 defined in terms of uses included rather than numerical caps,
15 and must include standards to be followed in the control and
16 distribution of population densities and building and structure
17 intensities. The proposed distribution, location, and extent of
18 the various categories of land use shall be shown on a land use
19 map or map series which shall be supplemented by goals,
20 policies, and measurable objectives. The future land use plan
21 shall be based upon surveys, studies, and data regarding the
22 area, including the amount of land required to accommodate
23 anticipated growth; the projected population of the area; the
24 character of undeveloped land; those factors limiting
25 development, critical habitat designations as well as other
26 applicable environmental protections, and local building
27 restrictions incorporated into the comprehensive plan or land
28 development code; the availability of water supplies, public
29 facilities, and services; the need for redevelopment, including
30 the renewal of blighted areas and the elimination of
31 nonconforming uses which are inconsistent with the character of
32 the community; the compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to or
33 closely proximate to military installations; the discouragement
34 of urban sprawl; energy-efficient land use patterns accounting
35 for existing and future electric power generation and
36 transmission systems; greenhouse gas reduction strategies; and,
37 in rural communities, the need for job creation, capital
38 investment, and economic development that will strengthen and
39 diversify the community’s economy. The future land use plan may
40 designate areas for future planned development use involving
41 combinations of types of uses for which special regulations may
42 be necessary to ensure development in accord with the principles
43 and standards of the comprehensive plan and this act. The future
44 land use plan element shall include criteria to be used to
45 achieve the compatibility of adjacent or closely proximate lands
46 with military installations. In addition, for rural communities,
47 the amount of land designated for future planned industrial use
48 shall be based upon surveys and studies that reflect the need
49 for job creation, capital investment, and the necessity to
50 strengthen and diversify the local economies, and shall not be
51 limited solely by the projected population of the rural
52 community. The future land use plan of a county may also
53 designate areas for possible future municipal incorporation. The
54 land use maps or map series shall generally identify and depict
55 historic district boundaries and shall designate historically
56 significant properties meriting protection. For coastal
57 counties, the future land use element must include, without
58 limitation, regulatory incentives and criteria that encourage
59 the preservation of recreational and commercial working
60 waterfronts as defined in s. 342.07. The future land use element
61 must clearly identify the land use categories in which public
62 schools are an allowable use. When delineating the land use
63 categories in which public schools are an allowable use, a local
64 government shall include in the categories sufficient land
65 proximate to residential development to meet the projected needs
66 for schools in coordination with public school boards and may
67 establish differing criteria for schools of different type or
68 size. Each local government shall include lands contiguous to
69 existing school sites, to the maximum extent possible, within
70 the land use categories in which public schools are an allowable
71 use. The failure by a local government to comply with these
72 school siting requirements will result in the prohibition of the
73 local government’s ability to amend the local comprehensive
74 plan, except for plan amendments described in s. 163.3187(1)(b),
75 until the school siting requirements are met. Amendments
76 proposed by a local government for purposes of identifying the
77 land use categories in which public schools are an allowable use
78 are exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan
79 amendments contained in s. 163.3187. The future land use element
80 shall include criteria that encourage the location of schools
81 proximate to urban residential areas to the extent possible and
82 shall require that the local government seek to collocate public
83 facilities, such as parks, libraries, and community centers,
84 with schools to the extent possible and to encourage the use of
85 elementary schools as focal points for neighborhoods. For
86 schools serving predominantly rural counties, defined as a
87 county with a population of 100,000 or fewer, an agricultural
88 land use category shall be eligible for the location of public
89 school facilities if the local comprehensive plan contains
90 school siting criteria and the location is consistent with such
91 criteria. Local governments required to update or amend their
92 comprehensive plan to include criteria and address compatibility
93 of adjacent or closely proximate lands with existing military
94 installations in their future land use plan element shall
95 transmit the update or amendment to the department by June 30,
96 2006.