Orange County fights new state law, aims to save Vision 2050

Sweating the impacts of a new state law blocking local development rules, Central Florida governments are exploring options.

Some have joined together and plan to sue the state while others have pushed their state legislators to fix the troubling statute (SB 180), which bars counties and cities affected by any recent hurricane from adopting “more restrictive or burdensome” land use regulations.

“The terms ‘more restrictive or burdensome’ should be better defined as what may be more restrictive or burdensome is subjective,” Leslie Campione, Lake County commissioner, wrote in a six-page letter to law-makers representing the county in Tallahassee.

For example, she wrote, a developer might consider a rule requiring more stormwater ponds to be burdensome because it adds to a project’s costs