Winter Haven commission adopts package of land‑use and zoning ordinances, advances budget and code changes

Winter Haven — The City Commission on the evening of the November meeting adopted several second‑reading ordinances that change future land‑use or zoning designations for a series of annexed and city‑owned parcels and advanced a set of budget and code amendments to December.

Among the items approved on final reading were O‑25‑30 and O‑25‑31, which altered the future land use and zoning for a 0.34±‑acre annex parcel at the north‑southwest corner of 8th Street NW/US‑17 and Avenue X NW; O‑25‑32 and O‑25‑33, which reclassified a recently annexed 13.89±‑acre parcel near 504th Street East for institutional use and PI zoning; and companion ordinances O‑25‑34 and O‑25‑35, which change the future land use and zoning on a 10.25±‑acre city‑owned site on the east side of Buckeye Loop Road to institutional and PI, respectively.

City Manager Mike Hurst told commissioners that the 10.25‑acre site was purchased as part of a larger (approximately 370‑acre) acquisition and is intended to house…