Proximity Ordinances: Does your county have one?

Just as our goal for 2014 was to have a legal challenge against residency restrictions (and we were successful in getting one filed), our goal for 2015 is to have a legal challenge against proximity restrictions (and we WILL have one filed).

Unlike residency restrictions, which control where a registrant can live, proximity restrictions control where a registrant can GO! Seriously; if your bank, dry cleaners, grocery store, etc. is within 1000 feet of a playground in Brevard County, you need to find another place. Even if it means driving across town. In Seminole County, you can’t even drive across town to  do that, since you are not even permitted to enter into the radius of 1000 feet from a school, park, daycare, etc.!

The filing of our residency restriction challenge brought a lot of members out of silence and asking “what about…” From that we learned about the proximity ordinances in Seminole and Brevard. Just yesterday we learned Lee County has one too.

NOW IS THE TIME to let us know that your county has such an ordinance if you want it included in our legal challenge.

If it does; here is what we need:

1) send an email to info@floridaactioncommittee.org saying, “________ County has a proximity ordinance too!”

2) complete a case consideration form, which can be found here: http://floridaactioncommittee.org/case-consideration/

3) tell other registrants in your area to fill out case consideration forms too. If nobody wants their ordinance challenged, we won’t bother.

NOW IS THE TIME to act if you want something done!