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Leesburg council approves rezoning for Leesburg Travel Center with conditions
Summary
Leesburg City Council voted 5–1 on Feb. 3, 2026, to rezone property L25-027 for the Leesburg Travel Center, allowing fueling and retail uses under seven staff conditions including limits on heavy-vehicle parking, landscaping buffers, road upgrades, and a 12-month zoning reversion.
City of Leesburg officials unanimously discussed and then approved with a 5–1 vote a zoning change for property L25-027 to permit a travel fueling station and associated retail, imposing seven staff-recommended conditions. City Attorney Bert Gregory introduced the application from Leesburg Travel Center, LLC, and Councilmember Charles Fairbrother moved to approve the rezoning; Councilmember Jamie Baggett seconded. Mayor Pro Tem Amanda White cast the sole dissenting vote.
The council’s conditions limit the site to 16 automotive fuel pumps and seven heavy-vehicle fuel pumps and allow up to 8,000 square feet of commercial retail. The council explicitly prohibited heavy-vehicle maintenance, repair, scales, and washing on the site. Overnight heavy-vehicle parking is capped at 15 spaces and each parking space may be used for no more than 24 consecutive hours; the property owner must provide records to the police chief upon request to show compliance with that limitation.
Exterior lighting must be full-cutoff. Landscaping requirements include a 10-foot-wide buffer along SR 19/Walnut Avenue and Jordan Road and a 30-foot buffer along the SR 19 Bypass; the Architectural Review Board will review the proposed landscaping to ensure overnight truck parking is visually shielded from the right-of-way. The applicant is required to upgrade Jordan Road from the SR 19 Bypass to the first site driveway to handle heavy-vehicle impacts, and signage for heavy-vehicle access will be posted. The council noted that no public tax dollars will be used to mitigate heavy-vehicle impacts created by the development.
A condition described as a "revolving 12-month zoning reversion" will convert the site back to AG zoning if more than 12 months elapse between major development milestones (for example, issuance of required land disturbance permits, final inspection of infrastructure, building permit issuance, or final certificate of occupancy). The council recorded the motion as approved by Mayor David Daughtry and councilmembers Baggett, Powell, Fairbrother and Breeden; Mayor Pro Tem Amanda White voted no. Councilmember Rufus Sherman was recorded absent.
The rezoning decision now carries the listed conditions; the applicant must meet permitting and inspection milestones identified by staff before development can proceed.
