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High Springs officials dissect state law SB 180 and its limits on post-storm land-use changes
Summary
At the Oct. 9 High Springs City Commission meeting residents and the city attorney discussed SB 180, a recently enacted Florida law that restricts some local land-development regulatory changes after hurricanes and mandates administrative approvals for certain actions; commissioners said the law will affect the city's ongoing Land Development Code
SB 180 — the state law residents say was signed this year — could limit High Springs' ability to adopt more restrictive land-development rules after a hurricane, city officials said Tuesday night.
Resident Julie Tapio Ruano asked the City Commission for guidance on how the statute might affect the city’s pending Land Development Code (LDC) rewrite and whether High Springs should join a multi-jurisdiction lawsuit challenging the law on home-rule grounds. "It seems to me it might benefit builders more or developers in a time where the city is trying to help citizens rebuild individually," she said, and asked whether the city might contribute to legal costs to join other municipalities.
The city attorney and commissioners said the statute contains two…
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