Gulf Breeze Citizens for Property Rights

Gulf Breeze Citizens for Property Rights seeks to raise awareness to the State of Florida elected officials that we want CS/CS/CS/SB 1000 rescinded because it denies communities the ability to govern our land and communities in which we live. Background:
I became aware of Verizon's push to establish the City of Gulf Breeze as a 5G community when, without any notice whatsoever to me or the City of

Gulf Breeze, SMW Engineering Group surveyed my property. Working with City Officials, we discovered that Verizon had hired SMW to survey Gulf Breeze Proper for the establishment of several large-scale towers and numerous small cell antennas. CS/CS/CS/SB 1000 — Communications Services
by Appropriations Committee; Community Affairs Committee; Innovation, Industry, and Technology Committee; and Senator Hutson
This summary is provided for information only and does not represent the opinion of any Senator, Senate Officer, or Senate Office. Prepared by: Innovation, Industry, and Technology Committee (IT)
The bill makes extensive changes to the statute governing the use of public rights-of-way by providers of communications services, including the Advanced Wireless Infrastructure Deployment Act relating to small and micro wireless facilities enacted two years ago. These changes include:
• Prohibiting a municipality or county from imposing permit fees for the use of public rights-of-way by communications services providers if it had not levied permit fees as of January 1, 2019, while allowing a municipality or county that was imposing permit fees as of that date to continue to do so or to elect to no longer impose permit fees;
• Creating a civil cause of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of the right-of-way statute;
• Prohibiting a local government from instituting, “either expressly or de facto, a moratorium or other mechanism that would prohibit or delay” permits for collocation of small wireless facilities or related poles;
• Deleting the authority for a local government to require performance bonds and security funds and allowing it to instead require a construction bond limited to no more than 18 months after the construction is completed;
• Requiring a local government to accept a letter of credit or similar instrument issued by any financial institution authorized to do business within the U.S.;
• Allowing a provider of communications services to add a local government to any existing bond, insurance policy, or other financial instrument, and requiring the local government to accept such coverage;
• Providing that a wireless provider shall comply with objective and reasonable requirements if the local government has required all public utility lines in the right-of-way to be placed underground, with certain exceptions;
• Prohibiting a local government from requiring a permit applicant to provide inventories, maps, or locations of communication facilities in the rights-of-way, unless it is necessary to avoid interference with existing facilities;
• Allowing a local government to require, annually, a notarized statement from a pass-through provider identifying information on the provider’s pass-through facilities; and
• Providing additional requirements pertaining to a local government’s permit registration and application process for communications services providers’ use of public rights-of-way. If approved by the Governor, these provisions take effect July 1, 2019. Vote: Senate 34-3; House 96-16
Source: https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2019/html/2012