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Real estate agents are now advertising mixed-use space for a controversial development coming to the corner of Northwest 23rd Avenue and 43rd Street.

Attorney tells Suburban Heights residents that by right zoning allows up to 8 stories and 200,000 non-residential space

Residents of Suburban Heights successfully thwarted plans to build drive-thru businesses behind the neighborhood. But now, they’re worried about the potential for a large housing unit to go up instead. 

Residents of a large northwest Gainesville neighborhood thought Thursday they might be preparing to further battle a proposed drive-thru business near their homes. Instead, they're scratching their heads and wondering what an Atlanta developer will do next, after city officials gave a green light to a much larger — and taller — development than had been proposed.  Minus the drive-thru, which commissioners nixed Wednesday evening. Suburban Heights residents were trying to digest the changes after Gainesville city commissioners unexpectedly approved a land-use change, drastically alter...

A drive-thru that Suburban Heights residents feared could have added to the traffic in their neighborhood won't be part of a new mixed-use development that was proposed next to the community. But that’s about all that was settled after more than five hours of debate at a Gainesville City Commission rezoning hearing Wednesday night. The majority of the commission offered a much different view about the sort of development they would prefer to see at the former St. Michael's Episcopal Church site than what was proposed by Wilson Development Group out of Atlanta. The company asked the city to...