Martin Luther King Economic Development Corp. v. Department of Community Affairs

This is an appeal from a final agency order of the Florida Department of Community Affairs [the Department] which denied an application for a funding grant under the Florida Community Development Corporation Support and Assistance Program. The applicant Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation [MLK], whose application was denied below, appeals this order. We find no merit in MLK’s points on appeal and affirm.

At the outset, MLK attacks certain aspects of the Department’s rules for evaluating grant applications under the above-stated community assistance program on the ground that…