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Sarasota County sued over efforts to block Live Local projects
The lawsuits come amid a rush of new Live Local applications before a July 1 deadline.
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota County’s attempt to stop thousands of apartments from being built in rural communities is now facing the legal challenge the county attorney warned was likely all along.
Two developers and a church have sued the county after commissioners voted in April to block six of the seven projects proposed under Florida’s controversial Live Local Act, setting up a court battle that could determine whether local governments have the power to keep the state’s affordable-housing law from reshaping agricultural and open-use land .
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