What it does
For one year after a hurricane makes landfall, an impacted local government may not propose or adopt: a moratorium on construction, reconstruction, or redevelopment of any property; a more restrictive or burdensome amendment to its comprehensive plan or land-development regulations; or a more restrictive or burdensome procedure concerning review, approval, or issuance of a site plan, development permit, or development order, to the extent those terms are defined in s. 163.3164.
"Impacted local government" turns on geography rather than damage: a county listed in a federal disaster declaration and lying entirely or partially within 100 miles of the storm's track while the National Hurricane Center categorized it as a hurricane — plus every municipality inside such a county. A city 90 miles from the track that took no damage is covered on the same terms as one that took the eyewall.
How it differs from §28
They are separate instruments in one chapter law, and only one of them ends.
| §28 (uncodified) | s. 252.422 (codified) | |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | Named in the DR-4806 / DR-4828 / DR-4834 declarations | Any federal declaration + within 100 miles of any hurricane track |
| Duration | Prohibition runs to October 1, 2027 | One year after each landfall |
| Retroactivity | Back to August 1, 2024 | None |
| Remedy | Void ab initio; private action, preliminary injunction, fees | General; no ab initio nullification clause |
| Expiry | June 30, 2028 | None |
How the corpus reads it
s. 252.422 is the reason the corridor's post-freeze planning calendar is unsound. Briefs and dossiers across the corpus described cities "pre-positioning to ship code when the freeze lifts," with a single lift date organizing a four-city race. That framing survives §28's expiry only if no further hurricane puts a Central Florida county inside a declaration and within 100 miles of a track — a condition Florida has rarely satisfied for consecutive years. The durable municipal response is the one the record already shows working: regulate form, placement, orientation, and architectural language, which neither this statute nor §28 reaches. Named and read at The Window That Reloads.