
Amendment 4 will mean higher property taxes and higher costs for all of Florida’s working families. Voters will be asked to vote on every project, not only the big development projects but also on all minor or technical changes to their local comprehensive plan. In the last four years alone, this would have meant over 10,000 costly elections across the state of Florida because under this amendment, all city and county governments would be required to hold expensive referenda on hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of amendments every year. This means more more tax dollars required to pay for them. According to the Orlando Sentinel, “The cost to local governments of including the land-use amendments on ballots would soar into the millions.”