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Votes at a glance: key LUZ committee actions March 18, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal committee actions on March 18, including items approved, denied and continued; includes bill numbers, short descriptions, committee votes and next procedural steps.
The Land Use and Zoning Committee conducted a long agenda on March 18, 2025. Below are the committee’s recorded formal actions, including votes, short descriptions, and next steps.
- Ordinance 2024-0851 (Northeast Development Review Board): Committee recorded a denial, 0-4. Committee adopted an LUZ rules amendment but did not advance the ordinance; item will appear on full City Council agenda with the committee denial recommendation and may be discharged by the council president.
- Ordinance 2025-0559 (Small-scale land-use amendment) & Ordinance 2025-0560 (Companion rezoning to RMDB): Approved 4-0. The pair allows a quadplex on a 0.4-acre site near Edward Waters College for Restore Duval; Planning Commission had recommended approval. Items will move to full council with committee recommendation for approval.
- Zoning Exception 2025-0134 (Shores Liquor, Atlantic Boulevard outparcel): Approved 4-0. Staff recommended approval and no waiver of liquor distance was required.
- Zoning Exception 2025-0133 (Bertie's / Wall Street Liquor in 5 Points): Approved 4-0 with a condition tying the exception to issuance of the companion waiver of liquor distance; committee attached a condition that the exception is effective only if the waiver is issued.
- Ordinances 2025-0585, 2025-0586, 2025-0587, 2025-0588 (Arlington Expressway redevelopment cluster – HDR land-use and PUD rezonings): All forwarded with committee approval (vote tallies recorded as 4-0 on the companion items). Planning staff recommended approval across these items; site plans and revised exhibits were attached by amendment where noted.
- Ordinance 2025-0083 and 2025-0084 (Small-scale land use and companion PUD rezoning for commercial/vehicle storage uses along Atlantic/Marketplace area): Approved 4-0.
- Ordinance 2025-0089 (Large-scale land-use transmittal from rural to low-density residential, 79.33 acres): Approved 4-0 (transmittal step); the item will continue through the comprehensive-plan adoption/transmittal process.
- Conventional Rezoning 2025-0092 (Commercial zoning clean-up for 1000 Third Street area): Approved 4-0.
- Conventional Rezoning 2025-0093 (RMDC rezoning for a Springfield site, townhome condominium proposal): Approved 4-0.
- Miscellaneous deferred items: Several bills and zoning exceptions (items listed on the agenda) were deferred or continued to later committee dates, including EAR adoption matters (2025-0090) and a set of district-wide map proposals (2024-0868/0869) that remain under review.
Votes and procedural notes reflect LUZ committee roll-call actions taken March 18. Items that passed the committee will go to full council with the committee recommendation; items that were denied or tied in committee will follow council rules for potential discharge to full council.
