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Planning commission backs rezoning and PUD with 150‑foot buffer and wastewater limits

Citrus County Planning and Development Commission · December 5, 2025
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Summary

The commission voted 5–0 to recommend rezoning roughly 4.57 acres of Lot 0A to industrial and to establish a 14.7-acre PUD allowing small warehouse units and a future 250‑foot communications tower, adding a condition requiring a 150‑foot buffer with Type D plantings along the west property line and limits on industrial wastewater entering public flows.

The Citrus County Planning and Development Commission on Dec. 4 recommended that the Board of County Commissioners approve CPA/AA/PUD2025‑00003, a rezoning and planned-unit development proposed by Local Engineering on behalf of Garrett family interests that would convert about 4.57 acres of Lot 0A from rural residential (RURMH) to industrial and overlay a 14.7‑acre PUD for multiunit commercial/industrial warehouses and a future telecommunications tower.

Applicant Michael D. Wilburn told the commission the request aligns the industrial boundary roughly 300 feet west to match previously approved industrial zoning on adjacent property owned by the same family. Wilburn presented a master plan showing 15 small warehouse/lease buildings, a retention pond already permitted for the larger site, and a proposed maximum of 100,800 square feet of building area on…

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