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Florida Business News

• Florida may use federal COVID relief money to cut unemployment taxes for businesses

  Under state law, businesses’ unemployment taxes automatically increased on Jan. 1 to replenish the state fund used to pay unemployment benefits to laid-off Floridians.

• Florida might limit local government control over new home designs

  With the sponsor saying the proposal would help hold down housing costs, a House panel Wednesday approved a bill that would reduce the authority of local governments to place design restrictions on new homes.

• Wealthy Keys enclave received COVID vaccines in January before much of the state

  As Florida’s eldest residents struggled to sign up to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, nearly all those aged 65 years and older in a wealthy gated enclave in the Florida Keys had been vaccinated by mid-January.

• Orange County offered Universal Orlando $100,000. Universal turned it down

  Orange County was willing to cut Universal Orlando a $100,000 break — but the giant resort turned it down. The episode involved a $10 million “economic incentive” program that launched last summer,

• JTA approves $1.21 million bid for Brooklyn Skyway station

  The Jacksonville Transportation Authority awarded a $1.21 million contract to Superior Construction Co. Inc. to build a Skyway station in Brooklyn.

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