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The Apopka Planning Commission examined tree preservation, connected open spaces, and the potential costs and benefits of future data centers during a Tuesday workshop. During their regular meeting, they approved a child care permit and recommended approval of a commercial land use amendment and residential rezoning.

The Apopka Community Redevelopment Agency will meet Thursday, November 12, to consider downtown initiatives involving a pocket park, historic markers, and pedestrian improvements near Kit Land Nelson Park. The 2 pm meeting also includes Fifth Street lighting, termination of the Station Street agreement, and a CRA work plan update.

Apopka’s CRA will consider a mutual termination agreement Thursday that would end the stalled Station Street redevelopment deal for up to 60 affordable apartments, a public plaza and trail improvements. The developer has signed the document, but the supplied copy remains unsigned by the city and CRA and attributes the project’s halt to environmental clearance issues.

Apopka’s Planning Commission will hold an open-space workshop at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, November 10, followed by its regular meeting at 5:30 pm. Three public hearings concern a proposed Chandler Road daycare, a future land-use amendment near Kelly Park Road, and a rezoning request on Sir Arthur Court.

Florida voters approved Amendment 3, a homestead property tax reduction that state economists estimate could reduce local government revenues by as much as $12 billion annually at full implementation. Two other proposed constitutional amendments failed to reach the required approval threshold in unofficial results.