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Florida Communities Trust (Florida Statutes: Title XXVIII Natural Resources; Conservation, Reclamation, and Use; Chapter 380 Land and Water Management; Part III; ss. 380.501-380.515)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Florida
Document type
Legislation
Date
1941 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Land & soil
Keyword
Special fund Local government Institution Governance Policy/planning Environmental planning Coastal zone management Land-use planning Surface water Tourism Non-governmental entity Dispute settlement Financing Capacity building
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Part of Chapter 380 of the Florida Statutes is known as the Florida Communities Trust Act. Its purpose is to establish a nonregulatory agency that will assist local governments in bringing local comprehensive plans into compliance and implementing the goals, objectives, and policies of the conservation, recreation and open space, and coastal elements of local comprehensive plans, or in conserving natural resources and resolving land use conflicts by: (a) responding promptly and creatively to opportunities to correct undesirable development patterns, restore degraded natural areas, enhance resource values, restore deteriorated or deteriorating urban waterfronts, preserve working waterfronts, reserve lands for later purchase, participate in and promote the use of innovative land acquisition methods, and provide public access to surface waters; (b) providing financial and technical assistance to local governments, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations to carry out projects and activities and to develop programs authorized by this part; and (c) involving local governments and private interests in voluntarily resolving land use conflicts and issues. For this purpose, the act creates the Florida Communities Trust, and determines its powers, duties and rules of operation.

Full text
English
Website
www.flsenate.gov