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Sponsor Councilman Joe Carlucci said the measure is a safety-focused response to concerns about open flames near gasoline pumps. Planning staff recommended similar locational restrictions be cross-referenced in the vending code (chapter 250) and supported adding a short grace period for enforcement so the public can be educated on the change.

During three hours of debate, council members and public commenters raised opposing concerns. Supporters cited fire-safety risk around fuel-dispensing sites and asked the city to be proactive. Opponents, including several food-truck operators and small-business advocates, said the restriction would harm entrepreneurs and limit food access in some neighborhoods.

Committee members first approved a rules amendment to focus the ban on vehicles employing an open flame (propane or similar), and they later removed broader language that had encompassed \"other heating elements.\" Councilmember Arias and others emphasized electric/induction-powered vendors are unaffected.

Councilmember Amaro proposed a 300-foot distance amendment based on an emergency-response guide; that amendment carried 4-3 and was folded into the final ordinance. A competing proposal to set the distance at 75 feet, offered by Councilmember Johnson and justified by some firefighters and outside experts, failed. Additional changes adopted by the committee extend the locational prohibition into PUD and neighborhood-commercial categories where appropriate, add a 90-day period before enforcement begins to allow public notification, and add references in chapter 250 so vending permit reviewers see the zoning prohibitions.

The final vote on the ordinance as amended was 4–3. The ordinance now moves forward for further processing; members discussed the need for improved inspection and consumer-affairs staffing so the city can track compliance and permits.

Votes at a glance
2025-0159 — Prohibit open-flame mobile food vehicles preparing or selling food on fuel-dispensing properties, with 300-foot distance amendment and 90-day delayed enforcement: Approved, 4-3.

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Planning staff said the original draft reduced mitigation standards in a way that would harm long-term canopy protection, but a neighborhood substitute and a working revision addressed those concerns. The substitute directs tree-mitigation and related-expense funds toward additional public-works staffing and equipment to enable planting and long-term maintenance; staff told the committee the Tree Mitigation Fund has grown substantially and needs capacity for implementation.

Scenic Jacksonville representatives and the Tree Commission testified in support of the substitute, urging that the city hire additional arboriculture staff so the fund can be spent on planting projects rather than accumulating. The substitute was unanimously recommended by the Planning Commission.

Councilman Joe Carlucci offered an amendment adding a five-year sunset on the ordinance’s affordable-housing fee waiver provision so the city can evaluate the waiver’s impacts and effectiveness before extending it longer term; the committee approved that amendment. Carlucci also said the waiver applies to one of the two mitigation accounts (the ordinance account), while projects would still pay into the charter account.

Committee members discussed concerns about the large fund balance and whether the city should pause collection; staff and the sponsor said that legally pausing the fund would be difficult and that past efforts to broaden waivers had faced opposition. Several council members urged the administration to begin spending the fund on planting and to report back on metrics and staffing.

Votes at a glance
2025-0102 — Substitute and amendments approved: Approved, 7-0.

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The committee voted 7-0 to approve the ordinance as amended after members removed language the staff had inserted to encourage \"missing middle\" housing and added a definition and durability requirement for affordable and workforce projects.

Planning staff told the committee the package reflects state requirements and updated population projections from the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to meet the city’s 10-year planning horizon and to refine housing and service needs. Staff said the package also adds policies—developed with JEA—encouraging advanced wastewater treatment, prioritizing upgrades to treatment facilities and directing programs to phase out on-site septic in developments of 50 lots or more, with a sanitary-sewer feasibility analysis attached as an exhibit.

Several residents and homeowners spoke in opposition to the missing-middle language, saying the provisions would allow duplexes, triplexes and other multifamily types into single-family neighborhoods. In response, Councilman Joe Carlucci and Councilman Arias led an amendment that struck the added missing-middle policies and the exhibit definition for \"missing middle.\"

Councilman Amaro offered and the committee approved a separate amendment defining \"affordable and workforce housing\" to mean projects developed under federal, state or local grants or appropriations that include oversight and affordability compliance; the amendment requires eligible projects to maintain affordability for at least 20 years. Committee members later added the word \"local\" to that definition to ensure locally funded programs could qualify. Planning staff said the state’s requirement sometimes uses the combined phrase \"affordable workforce housing,\" while local programs separate the two; staff explained the local breakdown used by the city (affordable: 51–80% AMI; workforce: 81–120% AMI).

After amendments were consolidated and the committee voted, the ordinance was approved as amended.

Committee members and staff said additional technical edits and consistency checks will be handled in subsequent committee meetings before the ordinance goes to full council.

Votes at a glance
2025-0090 — Adoption of comprehensive-plan text amendments as amended: Approved, 7-0.

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Planning staff reported the site is in an established commercial corridor and the requested use is consistent with the neighborhood-commercial land-use category. The applicant said the proposed operator is seeking to fill a vacant restaurant space and that earlier approvals in the same center had permitted alcohol sales. The PUD also requested a reduction in the minimum separation distance from a church from 500 feet to 320 feet for the specific location; staff said the consumption area would not be directly visible from the church and would be physically separated.

The Planning Commission had no speakers in opposition and voted unanimously to recommend approval. The committee voted to approve the rezoning; no roll-call votes by name were recorded in the minutes excerpt. The applicant indicated the business would create jobs and bring a use not currently present in the immediate area.

Votes at a glance
2025-0132 — PUD rezoning to allow restaurant alcohol sales and reduced separation from church: Approved, unanimous.

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