Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1174
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/26/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Diaz de la Portilla)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 419.001, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         419.001 Site selection of community residential homes.—
    8         (2) Homes of six or fewer residents which otherwise meet
    9  the definition of a community residential home shall be deemed a
   10  single-family unit and a noncommercial, residential use for the
   11  purpose of local laws and ordinances. Homes of six or fewer
   12  residents which otherwise meet the definition of a community
   13  residential home shall be allowed in single-family or
   14  multifamily zoning without approval by the local government,
   15  provided that such homes are shall not be located within a
   16  radius of 1,000 feet of another existing such home with six or
   17  fewer residents or within a radius of 1,200 feet of another
   18  existing community residential home. Such homes with six or
   19  fewer residents are shall not be required to comply with the
   20  notification provisions of this section; provided that, before
   21  prior to licensure, the sponsoring agency provides the local
   22  government with the most recently published data compiled from
   23  the licensing entities that identifies all community residential
   24  homes within the jurisdictional limits of the local government
   25  in which the proposed site is to be located in order to show
   26  that there is not a home of six or fewer residents which
   27  otherwise meets the definition of a no other community
   28  residential home is within a radius of 1,000 feet and not a
   29  community residential home within a radius of 1,200 feet of the
   30  proposed home with six or fewer residents. At the time of home
   31  occupancy, the sponsoring agency must notify the local
   32  government that the home is licensed by the licensing entity.
   33  For purposes of local land use and zoning determinations, this
   34  subsection does not affect the legal nonconforming use status of
   35  any community residential home lawfully permitted and operating
   36  as of July 1, 2016.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.
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   39  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   42  and insert:
   43                        A bill to be entitled                      
   44         An act relating to residential facilities; amending s.
   45         419.001, F.S.; specifying applicability of siting
   46         requirements for community residential homes;
   47         providing applicability with respect to local land use
   48         and zoning; providing an effective date.