Which agency administers standards and processes to ensure that comprehensive plans are financially feasible and that the plans provide the infrastructure needed to support development?

• A. Florida Growth Management Act of 1985
• B. Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights Protection Act of 1995
• C. Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA)
• D. Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO)

Answer: (D)

Florida's planning system requires local comprehensive plans to be financially feasible and to include a capital improvements element that shows infrastructure will be provided to support projected development. The state agency that administers these standards and the plan review process is the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which oversees the growth-management program and evaluates plans and amendments for compliance and funding adequacy. This function used to be housed under the Department of Community Affairs, but responsibilities were moved to the DEO to consolidate growth-management oversight. The other options refer to related laws or different agency scopes and do not describe the current administering body for these planning standards.