The zoning change replaces the current single-family zoning with a new “neighborhood residential” category that allows property owners to build up to four units in a building.
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The mauling of Black resident Terrell Bradley by a Gainesville Police K9 stirred community cries for reform.
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Debra Anderson retired this summer after 22 years working for the University of Florida’s International Center. She agreed to a profile on one condition – it couldn’t be about her.
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At 1 p.m. today on WUFT-FM: Listen back to Juneteenth, a national call-in from The United States of Anxiety with Kai Wright. The program, in collaboration with Houston Public Media and KERA, talks about Juneteenth, its history and its becoming a national holiday.
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Fearing Mother Nature might have her way, participants of Gainesville’s Juneteenth Freedom Walk got a reprieve as cloudy skies played peek-a-boo with the sun Saturday morning. “The walk provides an educational experience in the community where you see people across the community come together to learn some of the real …
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In March, the “Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries” bill, sponsored by Rep. Fentrice Driskell, D- Tampa, was stalled without ever coming to a full House vote. The bill would have enacted some recommendations of a state task force that spent a year researching abandoned cemeteries.
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Corey Harris began this month in the newly created position of senior housing strategist for the City of Gainesville. He's tasked, in part, with helping solve a serious affordable housing shortage.
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Henry Hinson was lynched and hung from a cedar tree near the Micanopy town center where his lifeless body hung from the tree from sunup to sundown for all the residents to see. He allegedly shot and killed a prominent white man in town. The Micanopy-Wacahoota Community Remembrance Project, in …
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Florida charges children and their families 31 different fines and fees for their involvement in the juvenile system, including public defender charges, court administration and costs of detention. In this special report, we introduce you to a Lake County family that owes over $830 in fines and fees. The debt …
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What used to be an affordable and intergenerational neighborhood is now facing expensive housing and demolition.
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