Property Rights Alert: Florida Bill filed to reduce local governments setting excess land use permitting requirements

Tavares, FL         Sunday, Mar. 2, 2014

Land Grabbing is the use of land use planning restrictions to reduce the value of owned land.

Property Rights Alert - Of course, the Florida bill HB-1077 (2014) was just filed, and it may or may not go anywhere.  The environmentalists, who want excess regulations to get environmental preserves FOR FREE, will fight it, but property rights groups will favor it.

http://www.thefloridacurrent.com/article.cfm?id=36631840    

It would be interesting to know if the Lake County South Sector Plan would be affected since County staff, not a property owners association consultant, is now doing the planning for it under the “guidance” of Commissioner Sean Parks, who helped write the Lake County Land Use Comprehensive Plan and spearheaded the Sector Plan proposal.   The South Sector plan defines lots of open space, high density housing and only some commercial development areas.  Once the Lake County Board approves the sector plan by April, it becomes part of the Lake County land use plan and it is a taking of property values of the property owners in the 16,000 acre area who are not favored and did not get allocated high value residential and commercial land use rights.  

And, what about the Wekiva Parkway – would the requirements for horribly expensive raised roads and cutting off Highway 46a to please environmentalists be affected by this bill?  Or are they considered State, not local, requirements not subject to this bill?

I think land and property owners are getting tired of being jerked around by excessive government land use restrictions and the taking of property value without just compensation. 

PS:  While searching for background I found the term "land grabbing" is big in property rights fights in developing countries.  There, environmentalist groups FIGHT land grabbers from developing land for agriculture, while here, they USE Land grabbing techniques to take private property for environmental preserves.

Vance Jochim

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