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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
Oh there you go, thinking again and pushing our noodle buttons.Maybe the new law is grandfather thing? sigh...can somebody look it up?
Nevermind, I looked it up..my mother raised a monster. She sold encyclopedias. No grandfathering....law says adopt new ordinances or amend existing ones.
Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine
(2) Each water management district shall design and implement an incentive program to encourage all local governments within its district to adopt new ordinances or amend existing ordinances to require Florida-friendly landscaping for development permitted after the effective date of the new ordinance or amendment. Each district shall assist the local governments within its jurisdiction by providing a model Florida-friendly landscaping ordinance and other technical assistance. Each district may develop its own model or use a model contained in the “Florida-Friendly Landscape Guidance Models for Ordinances, Covenants, and Restrictions” manual developed by the department. |
You hit on the law, but that is not the section I would quote.
Your original intent was to learn what you can do about landscaping your lawn.
The pertinent section, it seems to me, is:
(b)
A deed restriction or covenant may not prohibit or be enforced so as to prohibit any property owner from implementing Florida-friendly landscaping on his or her land or create any requirement or limitation in conflict with any provision of part II of this chapter or a water shortage order, other order, consumptive use permit, or rule adopted or issued pursuant to part II of this chapter.
(c) A local government ordinance may not prohibit or be enforced so as to prohibit any property owner from implementing Florida-friendly landscaping on his or her land.
Let's go back to your original intent. You wanted to know what you could do with regard to landscaping your lawn.
It seems to me that you might want to work up a proposal of what you want to do to landscape your yard, using "Florida-friendly landscaping" principles; submit it to the ARB and let them know up front that you know that the law allows you to do Florida-friendly landscaping.
There's lots of information on the Internet about what plants to use in Florida-friendly landscaping. There are also a lot of photos of what others have done at
https://www.google.com/search?q=flor...iw=800&bih=499