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Planning board approves conditional use permit for Marybeth Mercantile at County Road 52

5484239 · July 2, 2025
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Summary

The board approved a conditional use permit for a new 5,000‑square‑foot retail building (Marybeth Mercantile) at County Road 52 and Thomas Jefferson Street in the city’s Neighborhood Commercial (CN) district, subject to landscaping and tree‑removal conditions.

The Dade City Planning Board approved a conditional use permit for Marybeth Mercantile, a proposed 5,000‑square‑foot single‑story retail building at the triangle parcel formed by Thomas Jefferson Street and County Road 52.

Staff described the property as CN (Neighborhood Commercial) zoning, where a clothing store requires conditional use approval rather than being permitted by right. Catherine Ralston, the city’s Community and Economic Development director, told the board the site “currently is mostly full of vegetation” after a small commercial building was demolished two years ago and that the proposed building is designed to…

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