LAKE CITY, Fla. (WCJB) - The Lake City City Council voted yes in two quasi-judicial hearings on Monday to change the zoning for a piece of land in Lake City.

The council voted yes 3-2 on two separate quasi-judicial hearings after a controversial meeting.

The hearings were related to an application to change the zoning for a piece of land from residential to industrial.

Laurie Akins lives directly adjacent to where the change would happen and took issue with the process.

“It’s cowardly, do your job, get up there and do your job, it’s cowardly to do that, you should say what you mean and mean what you say, and it will adversely affect us, no matter what industry is put there, it will adversely affect us,” said Akins

She has concerns about light pollution and traffic crashes.

“We keep g

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