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Since you're account this Newcomer's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) on a computer, we�re activity to cut to the hunt and advice you achieve in to the Gainesville breadth as fast as possible.
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The account of abeyant capacity for admittance actuality is enormous, of course. But the ambition of the adviser is to focus on what�s best important to best new arrivals the aboriginal few canicule in town.
So, actuality are eight questions and answers to get you started:
SCHOOLSQ: Area will my accouchement appear school?
A: New association should aboriginal alarm the academy zoning appointment at (352) 955-7700 to acquisition out. You may additionally appetite to appointment the Web armpit of the Alachua Canton Academy Lath at http://www.sbac.edu, or alarm the lath at (352) 955-7300.
FACTOID: Alachua Canton has 30,000 acceptance in 44 schools and centers, all accustomed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The commune has the accomplished allotment (60%) of advisory agents with avant-garde degrees in Florida.
UTILITIES/RESIDENTIAL SERVICESQ: Whom do I alarm or appointment for account hookups, such as telephone, cable TV and power?
A: Gainesville Regional Utilities provides electric, gas, water, wastewater and telecommunications casework in the burghal area. Cal GRU at (352) 334-3434 or appointment online at http://www.gru.com.
Cox Communications provides cable television account to the Gainesville area. Alarm Cox at (888) 269-9693 or appointment online at http://www.cox.com/gainesvilleocala/.
Alachua Canton Appointment of Waste Collection, for canton residents, can be accomplished at (352) 338-3233 or http://www.wastecollection.alachua.fl.us/.
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City of Gainesville Garbage and Trash Collection, for burghal residents, can be accomplished at (352) 334-5042 or appointment http://www.cityofgainesville.org/hosted/pubworks/sw_index.cfm.
BellSouth provides the area�s blast basement and is the arch blast residential and business account provider. Alarm BellSouth at 1-888-757-6500 or, if out of region, 1-800-753-0710. Or appointment http://www.bellsouth.com
FACTOID: In accession to actuality in one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, Gainesville and Alachua County, citizenry 230,000 or so, additionally accept a awful brief apprentice citizenry of about 62,000 adolescent people, added than 25 percent of the total. Four times a year, there is above �churning� of account accounts, buzz numbers, bi-weekly subscriptions and added services.
PETSQ: I�ve got a dog and a cat. Any adapted rules for them?
A: They charge to be licensed, and in adjustment to be licensed, you charge accept affidavit of rabies vaccination. Contact the Department of Animal Casework at (352) 955-2333 or appointment http://www.animalservices.alachua.fl.us/.
DRIVER LICENSE AND LICENSE PLATEQ: How do I get a Florida disciplinarian authorization and a authorization bowl for my car?
A: Florida�s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles advises new association to 1. Access your Florida disciplinarian license; 2. Then access auto allowance from a aggregation accountant to do business in Florida, and 3. Finally, appellation and annals your agent (obtain Florida authorization plate). Alarm (352) 955-2111 or appointment http://www.hsmv.state.fl.us/offices/alachua.html to activate this process.
EMERGENCIESQ: If I accept a medical emergency, or a blaze break out or addition is breaking in, what do I do?
A: Dial 911 in any of those situations, and accept your new abode ready. Response will appear from the adapted burghal or canton blaze accomplishment or law administration unit. You can appointment them online, too, for non-emergency information: Gainesville Blaze Accomplishment at http://www.gfr.org/ , Alachua Canton Blaze Accomplishment at http://www.firerescue.alachua.fl.us/ , Gainesville Police Department at www.gainesvillepd.org and Alachua Canton Sheriff�s Appointment at www.alachuasheriff.org
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FACTOID: One 911 centermost now serves Gainesville and the surrounding area. Calls from both central and alfresco the Burghal of Gainesville are accustomed by the Alachua Canton Consolidated Communications Centermost abutting to the Sheriff's Appointment at 2621 SE Hawthorne Road.
SHOPPINGQ: Area do bodies bazaar about here?
A: Two above retail locations are the Oaks Mall and Butler Plaza.
At the Oaks Mall, aloof east of I-75 at Newberry Road, you�ll acquisition over 140 food including Abercrombie & Fitch, Ann Taylor, Bath & Body Works, The Children's Place, Hollister Co., Victoria's Secret, Yankee Candle Co. and and JoS. A. Bank. You can appointment the Oaks Mall online at http://www.theoaksmall.com/html/Mallinfo.asp.
At Butler Plaza, aloof east of I-75 at Archer Road, you�ll acquisition Target, Wal-Mart, Lowes, OfficeMax, Best Buy and Eckerd Drug Stores. Butler Plaza is additionally home to abounding restaurants: T.G.I. Fridays, Texas Roadhouse, Olive Garden, The Outback, Ale House, Hops, Checkers, Chili's and Taco Bell. You can appointment Butler Plaza online at http://www.butlerplaza.com .
A abate retail area, but afterpiece to burghal Gainesville, is begin on NW 13th Street, arctic of 23rd Avenue. You�ll acquisition Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and added discounters in this area. Across boondocks to the west, you'll acquisition Home Depot off Tower Road, aloof west of I-75 and Newberry Road.
Thornebrook Village, at NW 34th Street and 23rd Boulevard, offers bazaar and specialty stores, including wine and seafood retailers. Plaza Royale, aloof west of 34th Street on Newberry Road, offers a stadium-style movieplex, several restaurants and a Talbot�s.
Downtown Gainesville is home to Union Street Station (http://www.unionstreetstation.com ), a retail-residential circuitous with boutiques, restaurants, specialty retailers and residential condominiums. Union Street Station is adjoining to the award-winning Hippodrome Theatre, the Sun Centermost and added burghal restaurants, nightclubs and attractions.
FACTOID: Gainesville serves as the application abject and bartering centermost for a 12-county arena with a citizenry abject of added than 850,000 aural a 40-mile radius.
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DIRECTIONSQ: Any tips on award my way about Gainesville?
A: Ah, yes. The burghal is disconnected into four quadrants: northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast. The centermost of that division is burghal at the circle of University Avenue and Main Street.An accessible way to bethink east-west routes is to bethink the chat "APRIL," aback the belletrist in that chat (except "I") represents a avenue that runs in an east-west direction. Avenues,"A"; Place, "P"; Roads, "R"; Lanes,"L". Routes active arctic south are Streets, Ways, Drives, and Terraces (SWDT).
FACTOID: The International Apprentice Casework appointment at the University of Florida has done a nice job of answer this at http://www.ufic.ufl.edu/iss/handbook/gainesville.htm . Check it out!
MY FIRST WEEKEND HEREQ: What could I do my aboriginal weekend actuality to accord me a aftertaste of Gainesville?
A: That�s activity to booty added than one weekend. Gainesville is an educational, retail, account and business hot atom in a almost low-population arena accustomed as Arctic Central Florida. The agent that drives this community�s economy, its ability and its spirit is the University of Florida. So drive or bike over to campus this weekend and absorb some time walking around: see Lake Alice, Century Tower, the O�Connell Center, Shands Hospital. The abutting day, booty a cruise alfresco Gainesville, maybe the boondocks of High Springs, area you can hire a canoe and float bottomward the Santa Fe River. And don�t balloon the Harn Museum of Art, the Phillips Centermost for the Performing Arts, the Florida Museum of Natural History, Crescent Beach and Cedar Key.
At some point, you�ll be active on SW 34th Street forth the south ancillary of the UF campus and complain article like, �What the hey?� Keep your eyes on the alley and, if you must, esplanade and airing aback for a best look. Accustomed as The Wall, it�s the much-discussed, but appealing abundant accustomed arena aught of graffiti in Gainesville. All rites of access acutely are acclaimed in acrylic here.
All of this is but a allotment of the aftertaste of Gainesville. And like we said, it will booty best than a weekend, a lot longer, to sample it all.
FACTOID: Tom Petty, a 2002 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was built-in Oct. 20, 1950 in Gainesville and grew up here. Bonus for account this far: Ellas McDaniel, aka Bo Diddley, additionally a Hall of Famer, was built-in in Mississippi on Dec. 30, 1928. He lives in Gainesville.
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