Abstract
Over the past decade, the State of Florida—its environment sensitive, its population exploding, and its economy expanding—has pioneered innovative land planning and development regulation law. Our Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act, State Comprehensive Plan Act, Environmental Land and Water Management Act, and Regional Planning Council Act are considered models in many American states and even in foreign countries. The Growth Management Act of 1985 is unique in providing for a statewide planning framework that strengthens our major land use regulation and environmental protections laws and requires consistency between all state, regional, and local planning activities.
Legislation, however, means little unless it produces its intended result—in this instance, a better quality of life for Floridians. Should our statutes be amended? Replaced? Do they allow too much growth, or too little? Have a judicial decisions affected their reach? Th articles in this inaugural issue of the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy raise such questions and offer some responses.
Recommended Citation
Julian C. Juergensmeyer,
Introduction,
1 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y
(2022).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/jlpp/vol1/iss1/4