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Ocala council adopts land-use and rezoning changes for city-owned parcels
Summary
The Ocala City Council on March 18 approved four ordinances to reclassify and rezone multiple city-owned parcels—from Employment Center/M-1 to Public/GU—to reflect government use and planned improvements, following staff recommendations and unanimous council votes.
On March 18, 2025, the Ocala City Council voted to adopt four ordinances to change the future land-use designation and zoning for two clusters of city-owned parcels, providing a public land-use classification and governmental-use (GU) zoning that staff said aligns with the properties' existing and intended uses.
City planning staff told the council the requests were city-initiated to align land-use and zoning for parcels that currently serve municipal functions. Emily Johnson, senior planner with Growth Management, said the request "is a city staff initiated request to change the future land use designation of the subject properties from employment center to public and rezone from M-1 light industrial to GU governmental use." She said one property currently houses administrative offices for the Ocala Fiber Network and that the other parcel is…
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