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The city of Ocoee is rewriting some of its rules as it plans for growth with an eye on avoiding pitfalls of past development — and it already has four transformative projects in the pipeline.
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“There’s only so much land, so let’s make sure we’re developing that land as well as we can,” said Ginger Corless, Ocoee’s development services director and CRA administrator.
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From its humble beginnings as a village around Starke Lake, the city in west Orange County grew by nearly 20% since 2014, hitting a population of just under 50,000 in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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