FL H0487

Landowners with development orders predating a municipality's incorporation may elect to abandon those orders and instead develop at the vested density and intensity under the municipality's comprehensive plan and land development regulations, provided the uses are consistent with the plan and all concurrency obligations remain

Separate legal entities created by interlocal agreement are prohibited from exercising eminent domain over existing water or wastewater utility systems or acquiring title to utility facilities or property obtained through eminent domain, unless 10 or more years have elapsed since the eminent domain acquisition

Acreage threshold for adopting small-scale comprehensive plan amendments increased from 10 acres to 50 acres, and the rural area of opportunity threshold increased correspondingly from 20 acres to 100 acres (100 percent increase over the new 50-acre limit)

Separate legal entities seeking to acquire a utility must notify the host government by certified mail at least 30 days before any proposed transfer, and the host government may adopt a resolution to join the entity, approve the acquisition, or prohibit it if not in the public interest

Effective date of July 1, 2021