Updated zoning map of city approved by planning board
The Marion Planning Commission, after holding a public hearing Monday evening, approved an updated and generally rezoned map of the City of Marion.
City zoning administrator Susan Cooper told commissioners that the rezoning and updating is usually done every other year, but this time it had been four years since it was last done.
She explained that the delay was because "we were waiting for the outcome of a lawsuit involving the rock quarry."
The quarry, north of town, is now zoned for agricultural use, she said. It was one of the major annexations since 1999.
Hett Construction formerly was in a zone that was partly low-density residential and partly commercial. Its area is now zoned general commercial.
The property where Tampa State Bank is located in Marion, including a storage building, is now zoned general commercial, Cooper said.
The annexed area where the Marion assisted living facility is to be constructed is zoned "medium density residential."
The industrial park is in a light industrial zone.
The Third Phillips Grandview Addition to the city is residential.
Keith Mitchell, cartographer, of Mitchell Designs, created the new map with input from Cooper and others.
Streets are zoned on the new map, too, Cooper said.
Marion City Commission has final right of approval of the new map, at its 4 p.m. meeting Monday, Cooper said.
