Citrus County FL Planning Commission Denies Holder Industrial Park Rezoning After One-Year Data-Center Moratorium

Citrus County, Florida imposed a one-year moratorium in May 2026 on new data-center rezonings, development orders, and building permits. On June 18, 2026, the county’s Planning and Development Commission denied Deltona Corporation’s application to rezone roughly 800 acres at Holder Industrial Park (near Lecanto) for heavy-industrial use — an application filed before the moratorium took effect and therefore still heard on its merits. The commission denied it anyway, citing water consumption, electrical demand, noise, and environmental impacts. A strong local coalition drove both the moratorium and the denial.

This is a characteristic moratorium-plus-denial fight in the data-center-pipeline lane, joining the Jackson MS Saxum contest (2026-06-23–jackson-ms-northwest-data-center-rezoning-saxum-june-24-hearing) and the statewide moratorium wave at 2026-06-03–new-york-legislature-passes-statewide-data-center-moratorium-s10642 and 2026-06-22–arizona-illinois-data-center-tax-moratoriums-300-bills-nationally. The unnamed end user behind 800 acres of heavy-industrial near Lecanto is data-center-scale; the hyperscaler identity and any Deltona appeal to the county commission are the open leads.