A very bad law: SB 180
The Florida Legislature may reconsider next year a very bad law that prohibits approval of any measure by a local government that developers deem “burdensome or restrictive”. Your help is needed to make it happen. The law is known by its 2025 Senate bill number, SB 180 . It was slipped by developer lobbyists into a bill for hurricane damage relief. Legislators were falsely told that it only protects the right to rebuild property damaged by a hurricane. Instead, the new law , s. 252.422(2), Florida Statutes, prohibits any county or city for one year after being within 100 miles of a hurricane path, from adopting “a more restrictive or burdensome amendment to its comprehensive plan or land development regulations” or development approval procedure. Restore good wetland protections? Nope. Rein in urban sprawl? Nope. Increase building setbacks or limit heights? Nope. Not even a little. Our ...