MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – Marion County preservation nonprofit Horse Farms Forever‘s recent challenge to a request by a development company associated with the World Equestrian Center may have lasting implications for the way the county’s Development Review Committee (DRC) operates.
When the county published the agenda ahead of the DRC’s meeting on Monday, June 22, 2026, it included a waiver request from Golden Ocala Equestrian Land WEC Polo Field and Facilities’s contractor, Tillman & Associates Engineering, to allow the approval of building permits prior to the approval of a new Major Site Plan for the World Equestrian Center Ocala’s in-development sports complex.
The new Major Site Plan for WEC’s sports complex indicates that areas previously earmarked for non-equestrian athletic amenities such as soccer fields have since designated as “Polo Field and Facilities.”…