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Duck Donuts planning more stores for the area
Franchise opening first Jacksonville store this summer in the Shoppes at Bartram Park.
com website in Jacksonville are in Riverside and Avondale. Airbnb, an online marketplace, lets people rent their properties or spare rooms to guests. It says it provides access to more than 6 million places to stay in 191 countries. Neighbors of short-term rentals have complained to Love about absentee owners. “I have never had any issues with people who have a short-term rental and live there. Bed-and-breakfasts require the owner to live there,” he said.
Duck Donuts franchise owner Craig Hutchings said his group will open its first restaurant, which sells made-to-order doughnuts, this summer in the Shoppes at Bartram Park and hire about 30 people. There could be more shops. “We definitely have plans for additional locations in Jacksonville, but no set number,” Hutchings said. Duck Donuts allows customers to create their own combination of coatings, toppings and drizzles on freshly made vanilla cake doughnuts. The Pennsylvania-based company sells franchises. The city is reviewing a permit application for a $160,000 project to build-out 1,400 square feet of space for the shop at 13820 Old St. Augustine Road. The duckdonuts.com site lists a shop on the side anchored by Publix Super Markets. Shoppes at Bartram Park is off Interstate 95 in Duval County, near St. Johns County.
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Council member Jim Love in Avondale where Airbnb.com has 61 homes listed for short-term rental. The District 14 representative is sponsoring and ordinance to regulate short-term rentals.
Jim Love’s legislation would require the property owner live in and occupy the home during the rental, limit bedrooms for rent to three. BY SCOTT SAILER EDITORIAL RESEARCH DIRECTOR
After the Florida Legislature declined to regulate short-term vacation rentals during several consecutive sessions, a City Council member is taking steps to tackle the issue.
The 2019 legislative session ended Friday. District 14 council representative Jim Love sponsored Ordinance 2019-238, which was introduced to council April 9. Love said it is an attempt to “regulate in a fashion that is fair to both sides and the guests” to protect residents and visitors and to lessen the burden on city services from the impact of short-term rentals. He said his district, including historic Riverside and Avondale, has a large share of the city’s short-term rentals and decided to introduce his bill before his term ends June 30. Love said 162 of the more than 1,000 short-term rentals listed on the Airbnb.
Lucky’s Market to open in Oakleaf Lucky’s Market plans to open its Oakleaf Station store May 22 with a bacon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. The grocer is leasing space at 8380 Merchants Way in Southeast Jacksonville next to Epic Theatres. The store will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Founded in 2003, Lucky’s Market is focused on natural, organic and locally grown products. The Oakleaf store is the second Lucky’s in Northeast Florida and the 18th in Florida. More at JaxDailyRecord.com
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