Gainesville commissioners eliminate single-family zoning citywide

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Following months of controversy and debate, a measure eliminating exclusionary zoning has become the law of the land in Gainesville.

As anticipated, the Gainesville City Commission voted 4-3 Monday to ditch single-family zoning throughout the city. It is the first city in Florida to do so.

The hotly contested ordinance will immediately go into effect, although opponents have threatened legal challenges and new commissioners starting in January have pledged to overturn the change. Developers can build duplexes, triplexes and — on rarer occasions — quadplexes, in any neighborhood with no sunset provision under the measure.

"I am voting for people to have the opportunity to have families," said Commissioner Reina Saco. "I'm not voting to take away your home. I'm not voting to bulldoze your home."

Full article: https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2022/10/17/exclusionary-zoning-gone-gainesville-after-city-commission-vote/10522673002/