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Saratoga rezoning approved to encourage development; county touts coordinated response after point-in-time count found no one sleeping outdoors

Wood County Board of Supervisors · February 3, 2026
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Summary

The county described a unanimous rezoning approval in Saratoga to permit commercial and suburban residential development along Highway 13, and outlined a coordinated response to homelessness after a recent point-in-time count found no one sleeping outdoors that night, with officials urging continued interagency efforts.

Lance Plimel said the town of Saratoga proposed rezoning corridors, including land along Highway 13, moving some acreage from rural preservation into commercial and suburban-residential categories to enable future development. He said the county generally defers to town requests in such corridors, that the proposal "made sense to the town, makes sense to the county," and that the rezoning passed unanimously.

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