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Owner seeks to reclassify residential parcel to agriculture and add agricultural‑protection designation

2391355 · February 26, 2025
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A Syracuse landowner asked the council to rezone a property from Residential A to Agriculture A1 and to include it in an agricultural protection area. Councilors discussed retaining an eastern strip for a future road corridor and avoiding eminent domain; both applications will be considered together at a future business meeting.

Syracuse City Council members reviewed a companion pair of planning commission recommendations asking to rezone a parcel at 2550 West 700 South from Residential A1 to Agriculture A1 and to include the same land in an agricultural protection area.

Staff said the property owner, identified in the packet as Jacob Reyes, applied to preserve the site as farmland. “This is very unusual. We almost never get somebody that wants to go from residential to agriculture,” a council presenter said. The parcel is…

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