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Fla. Stat. § 380.021 (2025)

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380.021 Purpose.—It is the legislative intent that, in order to protect the natural resources and environment of this state as provided in s. 7, Art. II of the State Constitution, ensure a water management system that will reverse the deterioration of water quality and provide optimum utilization of our limited water resources, facilitate orderly and well-planned development, and protect the health, welfare, safety, and quality of life of the residents of this state, it is necessary adequately to plan for and guide growth and development within this state. In order to accomplish these purposes, it is necessary that the state establish land and water management policies to guide and coordinate local decisions relating to growth and development; that such state land and water management policies should, to the maximum possible extent, be implemented by local governments through existing processes for the guidance of growth and development; and that all the existing rights of private property be preserved in accord with the constitutions of this state and of the United States.

History.—s. 2, ch. 72-317.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 16 cases, 1976–2003 · leading case: Graham v. Estuary Props., Inc., 399 So. 2d 1374 (Fla. 1981).

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Graham v. Estuary Props., Inc., 399 So. 2d 1374 (Fla. 1981). · cites it 4× “§ 380.021, Fla. Stat. (1973). Therefore, the only way to logically and feasibly apply the act is by balancing the often conflicting interests according to the considerations listed in section 380.”

Caloosa Prop. Owners Ass'n v. Palm Beach Cnty. Bd., 429 So. 2d 1260 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983). · cites it 4× “Section 380.021, Florida Statutes, unequivocally provides that the procedures set forth in Chapter 380 are for the purpose of preserving our state's natural resources, as well as to "facilitate orderly and well-planned development" through state-established growth management…”

Pinellas Cnty. v. Lake Padgett Pines, 333 So. 2d 472 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976). · cites it 4× “72-317 ( Fla. Stat. § 380.021 ) the legislative purpose was set forth as: It is the legislative intent that, in order to protect the natural resources and environment of this state as provided in section 7 of article II of the constitution of this state, and to insure a water…”

Friends of Everglands v. Bd. of Co. Com'rs, 456 So. 2d 904 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984). · cites it 2× “Section 380.021, Florida Statutes (1972).”

Postal Colony Co., Inc. v. Askew, 348 So. 2d 338 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). · cites it 2× “By Chapter 380 the legislature evinced equal interest in state policies "to guide and coordinate local decisions" concerning critical natural resources and in controlling the means by which state policies are imposed on local governments.”

Monroe Cnty. v. Ambrose, 866 So. 2d 707 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003). · cites it 2× “See § 380.021, Fla. Stat. (1997). Allowing Landowners who have not taken any steps to develop their property to obtain vested rights would be contrary to legislative intent.”

Gen. Elec. Credit v. Metro. Dade Cty., 346 So. 2d 1049 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). · cites it 2× “See Section 380.021, Florida Statutes (1975).”

Fox v. Treasure Coast Reg'l Plan. Council, 442 So. 2d 221 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983). · cites it 2× “07, Florida Statutes, to make policy decisions that implement the legislative purposes outlined in Section 380.021, Florida Statutes. However, when fact-finding functions have been delegated to a hearing officer, the Commission must rely in its determinations upon the record…”

Compass Lake Hills Dev. Corp. v. State, Dep't of Cmty. Affairs, Div. of State Plan., 379 So. 2d 376 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979). · cites it 2× “Section 380.021, Florida Statutes. In Sarasota County v.”

Cross Key Waterways v. Askew, 351 So. 2d 1062 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). “in accord with the constitutions of this state and of the United States," Section 380.021, and prohibits a rule or order which is "unduly restrictive or constitutes a taking of property without the payment of full compensation.”

Wildlife Fed'n v. Collier Cnty., 819 So. 2d 200 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002). · cites it 2× “§ 380.021, Fla. Stat. (1999). This Act, which predated the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act by three years, was devised, as was the latter act, to provide for orderly developmental growth without endangering the state's finite natural…”

Suwannee River Area Council, Etc. v. State, 384 So. 2d 1369 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980). “[3] Emphasis on local control and the limited scope of Chapter 380 is expressed in the legislative intent, found in Section 380.021, that "state land and water management policies should, to the maximum possible extent, be implemented by local governments through existing…”

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