What role will a city or county commission play under Florida Hometown Democracy?
City and county commissioners will continue to hold public hearings on proposed comp plan amendments and vote whether to approve or reject a proposal, just as they have always done. Commissioners will still have the power to kill bad proposals. Florida Hometown Democracy will give voters a veto over bad proposals that a commission insists on passing. The amendment will clean up the corrupt local politics of growth. Developers will no longer be able to buy off a simple majority of a city or county commission. Example: 2 Palm Beach County Commissioners have been indicted in the past few months regarding their corrupt land use votes in exchange for secret payoffs from developers. Florida Hometown Democracy will give commissioners the back bone to finally say NO to bad comp plan amendments.
