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Florida’s Water and Land Legacy

Amendment 1 supporters aren’t giving up the fight for funding just yet

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In recent weeks, supporters of Florida’s Amendment 1 have become increasingly fearful that the Legislature was going to betray the will of the voters who passed the land-buying measure last November. The constitutional amendment calls for the state to dedicate a portion of documentary tax stamp proceeds to land buys and other environmental programs, and was slated to generate more than $700 million over the next year alone. But instead, lawmakers in Tallahassee have been lowballing that amount, with the House agreeing…

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