{"id":340055,"date":"2026-07-14T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340055\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:01:08","slug":"port-st-lucie-rezones-property-for-businesses-despite-resident-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340055\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie rezones property for businesses despite resident concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPort St. Lucie officials have approved a rezoning plan to convert a residential property into a commercial area.  The property, located at the southwest corner of Crosstown Parkway and Southwest Fairgreen Drive, will be rezoned from residential to commercial.  Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsResidents in nearby homes argued that the change would ruin the quiet area they moved into decades ago.  Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.City leaders said the rezoning could help reduce traffic in the area and emphasized that the city, packed with homes, needs more commercial businesses.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie officials have approved a rezoning plan to convert a residential property into a commercial area.  <\/p>\n<p>The property, located at the southwest corner of Crosstown Parkway and Southwest Fairgreen Drive, will be rezoned from residential to commercial.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"port st. lucie rezones property for businesses despite resident concerns\" title=\"Port St. Lucie rezones property for businesses despite resident concerns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d2776b90-ac9a-4d3d-a3a4-97ca5744a4d7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedWPBF 25 News\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPort St. Lucie leaders approved rezoning a residential property to commercial use, sparking concerns from nearby residents about preserving their quiet neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents in nearby homes argued that the change would ruin the quiet area they moved into decades ago.  <\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders said the rezoning could help reduce traffic in the area and emphasized that the city, packed with homes, needs more commercial businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie officials have approved a rezoning plan to convert a residential property into a commercial area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[558,3369,105769,20729,675,104566,677,5127,139705,171,173,172,139702,481,139703,139704,139706,189],"class_list":["post-340055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-business","tag-city-leader","tag-commercial-area","tag-crosstown-parkway","tag-local-coverage","tag-nearby-home","tag-neighborhood","tag-news-app","tag-newsresidents","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-port-st-lucie-rezones-property-for-businesses-despite-resident-concerns","tag-property","tag-resident-concern","tag-rezoning-plan","tag-southwest-corner","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}