A bill that we warned you about last week, SB 1526, was postponed from consideration, but has been rescheduled for Monday’s agenda before the Senate Community Affairs Committee. This bill would strip away a local government’s ability to restrict demolition of historic buildings in coastal communities, and then allow them to be replaced by bigger, taller buildings, putting more people at risk in hurricane-vulnerable areas. Some exceptions in the bill would protect some historic buildings from demolition, but only a fraction of those that would be threatened. |