Florida Statutes
Part IV - Neighborhood Improvement Districts (Ss. 163.501-163.526)
163.503 - Definitions.


(1) “Safe neighborhood improvement district,” “district,” or “neighborhood improvement district” means a district located in an area in which more than 75 percent of the land is used for residential purposes, or in an area in which more than 75 percent of the land is used for commercial, office, business, or industrial purposes, excluding the land area used for public facilities, and where there is a plan to reduce crime through the implementation of crime prevention through environmental design, environmental security, or defensible space techniques, or through community policing innovations. Nothing in this section shall preclude the inclusion of public land in a neighborhood improvement district although the amount of land used for public facilities is excluded from the land use acreage calculations.
(2) “Association” means a property owners’ association which is incorporated for the purpose of creating and operating a neighborhood improvement district.
(3) “Department” means the Department of Economic Opportunity.
(4) “Board” means the board of directors of a neighborhood improvement district, which may be the governing body of a municipality or county or the officers of a property owners’ association or the board of directors of a special neighborhood improvement district or community redevelopment neighborhood improvement district.
(5) “Environmental security” means an urban planning and design process which integrates crime prevention with neighborhood design and community development.
(6) “Crime prevention through environmental design” means the planned use of environmental design concepts such as natural access control, natural surveillance, and territorial reinforcement in a neighborhood or community setting which is designed to reduce criminal opportunity and foster positive social interaction among the legitimate users of that setting.
(7) “Defensible space” means an architectural perspective on crime prevention through physical design of the environment to create the ability to monitor and control the environment along individual perceived zones of territorial influence that result in a proprietary interest and a felt responsibility.
(8) “Enterprise zone” means an area designated pursuant to s. 290.0065.
(9) “Community policing innovation” means techniques or strategies as defined by s. 163.340.
History.—s. 57, ch. 87-243; s. 24, ch. 88-381; s. 3, ch. 91-86; s. 61, ch. 94-136; s. 12, ch. 98-314; s. 3, ch. 2021-131.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations

Chapter 163 - Intergovernmental Programs

Part IV - Neighborhood Improvement Districts (Ss. 163.501-163.526)

163.501 - Short title.

163.502 - Legislative findings and purpose.

163.503 - Definitions.

163.5035 - Safe neighborhood improvement districts; compliance with special district provisions.

163.504 - Safe neighborhood improvement districts; formation authorized by ordinance; jurisdictional boundaries.

163.5055 - Registration of district establishment; notice of dissolution.

163.506 - Local government neighborhood improvement districts; creation; advisory council; dissolution.

163.508 - Property owners’ association neighborhood improvement districts; creation; powers and duties; duration.

163.511 - Special neighborhood improvement districts; creation; referendum; board of directors; duration; extension.

163.512 - Community redevelopment neighborhood improvement districts; creation; advisory council; dissolution.

163.513 - Crime prevention through community policing innovations, environmental design, environmental security, and defensible space functions of neighborhood improvement districts.

163.514 - Powers of neighborhood improvement districts.

163.5151 - Fiscal management; budget preparation.

163.516 - Safe neighborhood improvement plans.

163.524 - Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement Program; participation; creation of Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement Districts; creation of Neighborhood Councils and Neighborhood Enhancement Plans.

163.526 - Neighborhood Councils and local government designated agency; powers and duties.