A contractor and director at a real estate firm emailed city commissioners and said he hoped they would be assaulted over a controversial plan to allow construction of multifamily housing in residential neighborhoods, police said. Police on Monday arrested Terry Lyle Martin-Back, 68, of Gainesville at his home outside the …
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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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Out of the 36 Florida cities with a population of 75,000 and above, Gainesville ranked ninth in a Florida Department of Transportation study that measured which ones had the most pedestrian-related serious injuries and fatalities between 2016 and 2020.
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WUFT News fact checked some of the statements the city included in the address.
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Assisted by several key city leaders and partners, the mayor sought to list what he said were the city’s accomplishments in 2020 and to introduce its new goals for this year.
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The Gainesville City Commission in its General Policy Committee meeting voted against exploring the legal ramifications of removing gender from public nudity laws.
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The Gainesville Police Department has announced a traffic safety crackdown in the wake of multiple recent deaths of University of Florida students on streets near the campus.
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An ordinance clarified the local historic preservation board’s power, the City Commission’s role in helping it and process of future preservation. As part of the process, the commission and board held a joint meeting in April 2019 to discuss hiring a preservation planner.
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In August, the City Commission adopted an ordinance requiring businesses to install retention systems to keep their shopping carts from being discarded in the community.
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The pandemic has called attention to the lack of affordable internet access in Gainesville. Residents who want better internet reliability and the option of a municipal broadband network must continue to wait.
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