Senate Bill 354 and House Bill 299 allow for large developments to avoid local land-use rules. Projects are approved by the Florida Department of Commerce. Environmentalists worry it would lead to ...

In Manatee County, developers can now build closer to mangroves than ever. In New Smyrna Beach, the city’s new flood protections could be overturned. In Orange County, a decade’s worth of planning for ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...