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Council debates growth limits and the constraints of Senate Bill 180
Summary
Council members pressed for tools to slow or better manage growth; Interim City Attorney Stokes told the council that Senate Bill 180 broadly preempts the city from adopting more restrictive land-use rules, bans moratoria and limits proactive local restrictions, leaving the city to rely on case-by-case approvals, its comp plan, land-development code and negotiated annexation agreements.
Councilors used the meeting to air constituent concerns about perceived rapid growth and to ask what local tools exist to limit development.
Interim City Attorney Stokes told the council that Senate Bill 180 was enacted after recent hurricanes and "was definitely a wrecking ball to our land use laws," explaining it generally prevents municipalities from adopting…
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