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Sumter County council denies rezoning request for Ginyard Parkway site

Sumter County Council · November 26, 2025
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Council denied second reading of rezoning request RZ2517 for 1650 South Ginyard Parkway, rejecting a plan to rezone 2.22 acres from Agricultural Conservation to Heavy Industrial amid neighbor concern about compatibility, traffic and wetlands despite planning commission approval.

Sumter County Council on Tuesday denied second reading of rezoning request RZ2517, stopping a plan by applicant Raymond Smith to rezone 2.22 acres at 1650 South Ginyard Parkway from Agricultural Conservation to Heavy Industrial.

Planning staff member Helen Reuben told the council the parcel is heavily wooded, adjacent to established residential lots and a religious use, and that a wetlands delineation found sufficient developable area outside jurisdictional wetlands. Reuben said the…

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