Does the Live Local Act apply to my project?

Cape Coral's codified Land Development Code has no local Live Local Act (2023, F.S. 166.04151) implementing procedure, and that does not mean the state law does not apply here. This pack verified the absence two ways: a full table-of-contents walk of the LDC (Supplement 38, Update 1, current through Ordinance No. 29-26, enacted June 3, 2026, all 13 articles) found no chapter, section, or heading addressing Live Local Act eligibility, administrative approval, or the state law's density, height, or parking preemptions; separately, Municode's own auto-generated Florida Statutes cross-reference tables for both the general Code of Ordinances and Volume II (the LDC) were checked directly and neither lists F.S. 166.04151 anywhere (the closest match, F.S. 166.0415, is an unrelated statute about land development regulation notice near military installations, cited only at City Code Sec. 12-58). The Live Local Act is state law and preempts local zoning for qualifying affordable-housing projects on commercial, industrial, or mixed-use land regardless of whether the city has adopted an implementing ordinance. A city's silence in its own code does not waive the preemption; it means the project must be evaluated against the state statute directly rather than against a local procedure, and the city may still require an administrative process (such as a site plan or building permit review) even without a codified Live Local Act section. If a project depends on Live Local Act eligibility, do not assume it is unavailable just because this pack found no local implementing section; confirm directly with the Community Development Department, City Planning Division at 239-574-0553 how the city currently processes Live Local Act applications.