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The Florida Legislature
approved a bill on April 30, 2004 that makes the Rural Lands Stewardship
Program a "specifically encouraged designation" on future land use
maps for all counties in Florida.
The bill also includes
several additional provisions to help counties carry out and fund rural
lands stewardship planning efforts.
For a summary of highlights, click
here. For the full text relating to the Rural Lands Stewardship
program, click here.
BACKGROUND:
The
Rural Lands Stewardship Program was developed by rural
landowners in Florida working together with a subcommittee of the Governor's
Growth Management Study Commission in 2000-2001. Statutory language
approving the Rural Lands Stewardship was first approved by the Florida
Legislature and signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush in June 2001.
Proposed amendments to improve the way in
which the Rural Lands Stewardship program works were approved April 30 by
the Florida Legislature as part of an urban infill and rural lands
stewardship bill sponsored by Sen. Steven Geller, chair of the
Senate Comprehensive Planning Committee. For
more information, please visit the following links:
- The Rural Lands Stewardship
Program, Section
163.3177(11)(d), Florida Statutes,
as amended:
Highlights - click
here
Text of SB 2188 relating to the Rural Lands Stewardship Program - click
here
Full text of SB 2188 - click here
Legislative History of SB 2188 - click
here
- The Rural Lands Stewardship
Program,
original language click here.
- Proposal to develop a
"vesting easement," a
new smart-growth tool for use in rural areas that are not yet part of a
Rural Lands Stewardship Area. Will offer
incentives to landowners to keep land in its current use and compensate
and encourage landowners to postpone the sale of land for development, click
here.
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Additional
Information:
Final
Report of the Governor's Growth Management Study Commission,
February 2001, "A Liveable Florida for Today and
Tomorrow." This report laid the groundwork for
the Rural Lands Stewardship Program. For a copy of the
full report (48 pages), click
here; to view the recommendations of the Rural Lands
Subcommittee, go to page 43 (or click "search" and
type in "rural lands"); for an excerpt of these
recommendations (text only), click
here. For a full copy of the Report of the Rural Lands
Subcommittee to the Commission (6 pages), click
here.
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