{"id":134189,"date":"2026-01-27T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:42:12","slug":"city-council-approves-rezoning-for-airport-road-car-rental-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134189\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council approves rezoning for Airport Road car rental franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h899131-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">A new car rental option is in the works near Jacksonville International Airport after action by Jacksonville City Council on Jan. 27.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h899131-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">On an 18-0 vote, with member Rahman Johnson not present, Council approved a rezoning request for a proposed U-Save rental franchise along Airport Road about 2 miles east of the airport.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h899131-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The rezoning, contained in Ordinance 2025-0828, is from Community Commercial\/General-1 to Community Commercial\/General-2. CCG-2 allows for more intensive uses than CCG-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h899131-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Plans call for the U-Save to operate on a presently vacant 2.47-acre parcel west of Hotel Windsor Inn and adjacent to an empty parcel owned by the Florida Department of Transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h899131-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Ammar Shakhtour, who bought the property in 2025, is developing the car rental business with plans to open by the end of 2026 subject to permitting and construction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h899131-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">U-Save, founded in North Carolina in 1979, operates in 31 countries. A 2022 merger between U-Save and Green Motion made U-Save the largest franchise car rental company in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new car rental option is in the works near Jacksonville International Airport after action by Jacksonville City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-134189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}