Is your parcel Live Local eligible?

Florida's Live Local Act (2023, expanded 2024 and 2025) is the strongest development preemption in the country, and most owners of qualifying land have no idea it applies to them. If a parcel is zoned commercial, industrial or mixed-use, a multifamily project with 40% affordable units must be approved administratively — no rezoning, no land-use amendment, no public hearing — at the highest residential density allowed anywhere in that jurisdiction.

The test, in plain terms

• Zoning: commercial, industrial or mixed-use (including flexibly zoned land such as PUDs).
• Affordability: at least 40% of units affordable at up to 120% of area median income, for 30 years.
• What you get: the jurisdiction's highest allowed density, the tallest height allowed within a mile (or three storeys, whichever is greater), and the least restrictive floor-area ratio — approved administratively.

Why this moves land prices

A tired strip-mall parcel that pencils as retail is a different asset if it can take apartments by right. Developers price land per buildable unit; Live Local can multiply the unit count without a single hearing. If you own qualifying land, the highest bidder may be a buyer you have not been marketing to.

Check a parcel

The checker reads the county zoning and land-use layers for the address, flags likely Live Local eligibility, and — where density is published — estimates the unit count on the combined entitlement. It also shows who has been assembling land on the block, which is usually the first sign someone else has noticed.