Pre-coding the Federal Question: Two Lake County cities built parallel infrastructure for a federally protected use class within sixteen days, before any contested case forced them to

Within a sixteen-day window in March 2026, two Lake County cities built parallel regulatory infrastructure for the same federally protected sensitive land use. Clermont passed Ordinance 2026-013 on March 3, adding a new article to Chapter 125 of the Land Development Code that aligns city procedure with Section 397.487 Florida Statutes — the Senate Bill 954 reasonable-accommodation framework signed June 25, 2025 and effective July 1. Leesburg's Planning Commission then approved the 2007 Butler Street Certified Recovery Residence Conditional Use Permit 6-0 on March 19 — six commissioners running an existing R-2 district through the same statutory frame on the same agenda that approved the Mispah Street ALF. Two cities, two surfaces, one statute. The pattern is regulatory infrastructure built before the litigation pressure arrives — code and case-by-case pre-positioned against the federal Fair Housing Act questions an unprepared city absorbs through court.