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ARTICLE · 30 JULY 2026

Florida 2026 Legislative Session: New Laws Facilitating Development

Florida's 2026 Legislative Session produced sweeping land use reforms that fundamentally alter the relationship between state preemption and local government authority. From expanding Live Local Act eligibility to religious and public lands, to mandating objective compatibility standards for residential denials, to creating an entirely new administrative pathway for infill housing on contaminated South Florida sites, these laws provide developers with unprecedented tools to navigate—and in many cases

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Highlights

  • The 2026 Florida Legislative Session produced a compilation of legislation that materially reshapes the balance between state preemption and local land use authority, with many of the new laws designed to facilitate development.
  • Through various means, these laws collectively offer the development community new tools, leverage and procedural pathways.
  • This Holland & Knight alert provides a high-level overview of the four most significant laws and their practical implications for developers and landowners, followed by detailed analyses of each.

The 2026 Florida Legislative Session concluded with a suite of legislation that materially reshapes the balance between state preemption and local land use authority, with many of the new laws designed to facilitate development. Whether through restricting how local governments regulate post-disaster rebuilding, expanding Live Local Act applicability, curbing subjective denial standards on development applications or creating

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