Spring 2008
THE GROWTH OF FLORIDA'S GROWTH LAWS
| 1972 | State Comprehensive Planning Act: Created Div. of State Planning, called for creation of state comprehensive plan; Established Areas of Critical State Concern (ACSC) and Development of Regional Impact (DRI) planning processes. |
| 1975 |
Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act: Required local governments to prepare & adopt comprehensive plans; State powers limited to comment, not review and enforcement. |
| 1980 |
Regional Planning Council Act: Regional Planning Councils (RPCs) required throughout the state. |
| 1984 |
State and Regional Planning Act: Required the development of a State Comprehensive Plan. RPCs designated as the primary agent to address regional issues, with a requirement that they prepare Regional Policy Plans. |
| 1985 |
Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Act (Growth Management Act): State mandates certain elements in local comprehensive plans; Concurrency policy mandated; State-Regional-Local planning framework established. |
| 1985 |
State Comprehensive Plan adopted: A directions-setting document with 27 goals across a broad array of issues. |
| 1986 |
Growth Management "Glitch Bill": Refinements and clarifications to the 1985 GMA. |
| 1986 |
Chapter 9J-5 FAC: Detailed rules on the content and form of comprehensive plans and criteria related to compact development established by DCA. |
| 1993 |
Growth Management Act: Restricted the powers of the RPCs and reduced the scope of regional policy plans; Phased elimination of the DRI process. |
| 1995 |
Reinstatement of the DRI process. |
| 1999 |
Urban Infill and Redevelopment Areas legislation: An attempt to promote redevelopment in the state's urban cores through reduced state oversight and financial incentives. |
| 2000 |
"Pay as You Grow" legislative package: This legislation included an increase in state funding for infrastructure, relaxed transportation concurrency standards, required concurrency for schools, and greater planning for potable water supplies. |
FLORIDA'S HISTORY of dealing with its burgeoning population with state-ordained management policies began in earnest in 1972, a year after DisneyWorld opened its gates. —source: The FSU Department of Urban & Regional Planning
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