The purpose of this act is to provide standards, direction, and procedures for the formation of municipalities in this state and the provision of municipal services so as to:
- (1) Allow orderly patterns of urban growth and land use.
- (2) Assure adequate quality and quantity of local public services.
- (3) Ensure financial integrity of municipalities.
- (4) Eliminate or reduce avoidable and undesirable differentials in fiscal capacity among neighboring local governmental jurisdictions.
- (5) Promote equity in the financing of municipal services.
History.—s. 1, ch. 74-192; s. 36, ch. 89-169.