Last May, preservationists across Florida breathed a sigh of relief when a bill seeking to gut protections for historic coastal buildings died in the Florida House after passing the Senate. But similar proposals are back for this year's legislative session in Tallahassee, sending local leaders scrambling once again.
At the legislation's core is a notion that old buildings near Florida's coast ought to be demolished if a local building official deems them unsafe or if they don't meet federal standards that call for flood-resistant materials and elevated structures in vulnerable areas. Preservationists say few historic buildings conform to those rules.
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