FRIDAY April 12, 2019
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Proposed Downtown zoning overlay
Jacksonville’s chief administrative officer will be replaced by Brian Hughes, Mayor Curry’s chief of staff. BY DAVID CAWTON
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Council member Lori Boyer’s legislation aims to “eliminate the randomness” and streamline development in the urban core. BY DAVID CAWTON ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Pending City Council approval this summer, Downtown Jacksonville will be rezoned as a single category, development design standards will be altered and new Downtown district borders will be drawn. Council member Lori Boyer introduced legislation Tuesday to overhaul design standards to make Downtown more uniform. Boyer’s council district includes the Downtown Southbank. “We’re trying to eliminate the randomness and treat Downtown like a downtown Boyer with uniform zoning standards and a clear path so developers can design their projects to the standards,” she said. Boyer’s bills include 2019-197, which will rezone about 980 acres of Northbank and Southbank property from 14 categories to a commercial central business district category. “Right now, it’s a mess,” she said. “There’s all these individual properties, each with different zoning.” Boyer said the mix creates unnecessary work for developers.
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City of Jacksonville Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa is retiring and will be succeeded by Chief of Staff Brian Hughes, the city announced Thursday. Mousa, whose last day at City Hall is June 28, joined the administration of Mayor Lenny Curry in 2015. Curry named Hughes as Mousa’s successor, follow- Mousa ing a 90-day transition period, according to a news release. “While considering a campaign for mayor five years ago, every person I met told me if I wanted to understand how to effectively run our city I needed to talk to Sam Mousa,” Curry said in the release. “That was how Sam and I started our partnership, and not a day has passed since where I didn’t rely on Sam’s expertise, insight, and friendship to help turn bold ideas into action,” he said. “Sam is without question the most skilled city administrator Jacksonville has had in our history, and I believe Sam is one of the best municipal policy experts in the entire nation.” Curry said in the release that he will miss working with Mousa. Curry’s term was Mousa’s sec-
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Publix buys Windsor Commons Publix Super Markets Inc., through a limited liability company, bought the Windsor Commons shopping center that it anchors at northeast Hodges and Butler boulevards. Real Sub LLC paid $21.5 million for the 8.47-acre shopping center at 4765 Hodges Blvd. and the 1.42-acre site for the Walgreens pharmacy at 4715 Hodges Blvd. Publix bought the property from the Chicago-based DWS property trust. The 15,160-square-foot Walgreens was built in 2000. The shopping center comprises three buildings developed in 2000 and 2018.
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