FREE • THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2023
VOLUME 6, NO. 242
PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL REZONING PASSES IN SPLIT VOTE BY CITY COMMISSION
AGRICULTURAL LAND GETS REZONED FOR INDUSTRIAL USES. MICHELLE CACERES STAFF WRITER
Area residents that showed up at this week’s commission meeting to express their opposition to a proposed rezoning near their rural land didn’t leave Plant City’s City
Commission meeting happy. In a split 3 - 2 vote, the Commission approved the Knox family’s request to rezone 42.62 acres of land from Hillsborough County Agricultural Single Family-1 to Plant City Industrial, making way for a
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542,358 square-foot distribution warehouse along the west side of South County Line Road, east of South Wiggins Road and south of Medulla Road. Mayor Nate Kilton and commissioners William Dodson and
Mary Mathis voted in favor of the rezoning. Commissioners Michael Sparkman and Jason Jones opposed the request.
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