Renting out lots on private land
I am hopefully going back to school as an adult student at UF and looking at buying land near Gainesville since paying for a rental lot for 4 - 6 years doesn't sound too appealing. I've looked at a fe...
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Having spent 15 years on our local zoning commission in a semi-rural township, I can promise you that they have the power to shut it down until you dot the I's and cross the T's. In our township, it could take months or even years to get zoning changed from Agricultural to Multi-family or Single family or, in this case, Commercial. And it still may not be approved. And if you start to make changes before approval and don't get approval, you can be forced to put it back the way you found it.
Zoning meetings are open to the public and adjoining property owners are invited to the meeting and are invited to speak. And you can't apply for a zoning change unless you already own the property.
If your potential property is in an area where zoning exists, a preliminary meeting with the zoning commissioner is wise before buying anything.
Zoning meetings are open to the public and adjoining property owners are invited to the meeting and are invited to speak. And you can't apply for a zoning change unless you already own the property.
If your potential property is in an area where zoning exists, a preliminary meeting with the zoning commissioner is wise before buying anything.
