TO: Planning Board Members
FROM: Cynthia Cannon, AICP, Assistant Planning Director
DATE: 11/2/2021
SUBJECT:
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Comprehensive Plan Amendment - Property Rights Element
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BACKGROUND:
The attached Property Rights Element is in accordance with the provisions of SB 59 (Fla. Stat. 163.3177 (6)(i)), passed during the 2021 Florida Legislative Session, signed into law by Gov. DeSantis, and incorporated into Florida’s Community Planning Act. Every city and county in Florida shall “include in its comprehensive plan a property rights element.” As such, the City of Pensacola, must adopt this new element “by the earlier of the date of its adoption of its next proposed plan amendment that is initiated after July 1, 2021 or the date of the next scheduled evaluation and appraisal of its comprehensive plan.