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Longwood residents press commission on vape shops, zoning and small-business mix
Summary
Two residents urged the Longwood City Commission on July 21 to address a rise in vape shops and worries about Medium Density Residential (MDR-15) zoning; commissioners and the city attorney explained limits on local rezoning and legal risks of changing comp-plan designations.
Two Longwood residents used public comment at the July 21 City Commission meeting to urge city leaders to curtail what they described as an influx of vape shops and other nontraditional storefronts and to protect established neighborhoods from denser residential development.
The comments came during the public-participation portion of the meeting. James Larry Howard of Ridge Street told commissioners, “I’m being told we got more vape shops coming in,” and said he was worried the downtown and surrounding corridors were becoming “grubby” with pawn shops and similar businesses. Madison Holmes of 490 Pasadena Avenue said she and neighbors own homes in an established area zoned MDR-15 and worried they “could end up with apartments slash town…
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