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Council approves changes to industrial parking and landscaping rules after amendments
Summary
Jacksonville City Council approved ordinance 2025448 to reduce industrial parking ratios and change landscaping thresholds after committee amendments that lowered the proposed trigger from 70% to 60% and extended some changes to commercial properties; vote was unanimous, 7-0.
The Jacksonville City Council approved an ordinance amending parking and landscaping rules for industrial development and, as amended, extended parts of the change to commercial properties.
The ordinance (2025448) reduces required parking for industrial uses in the code (staff noted the proposal shifts industrial parking toward a 1 space per 5,000 square foot ratio from an existing 1 per 2,000 square feet) and revises the city’s landscaping trigger for major site work. The original draft proposed raising the threshold that triggers required landscape upgrades from 50% of improvement value to 70% and…
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