JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Concerns and confusion are top of mind for people who live in one Southside Estates neighborhood ahead of Tuesday night\u2019s Jacksonville City Council meeting. <\/p>\n
They want to know whether a slaughterhouse will be built next door.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOur main concern has always been the defining of terms,\u201d concerned resident Kirsten Brewer said. <\/p>\n Back in August, Action News Jax first reported<\/a> an ordinance being proposed that would rezone part of Beach Boulevard between Desalvo and Cortez roads to allow Apna Bazaar to expand and construct a live processing animal facility. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n In November, we learned the owners of Apna Bazar decided to withdraw their request<\/a> for that slaughterhouse because so many neighbors were against it.<\/p>\n However, on all of the City Council agendas, the ordinance summary for the rezoning still reads \u201cto Permit Butchering & Live Animal Processing & Commercial Uses.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSlaughterhouse, live animal processing, are they the same thing or are they different? Is live animal processing based on the number of animals?\u201d Brewer asked.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Council President Kevin Carrico confirmed with Action News Jax that the current rezoning ordinance would allow Apna Bazar to expand their retail footprint and add a new warehouse. He also stated that there will be no animal processing allowed whatsoever.<\/p>\n Council Vice President Nick Howland said he saw residents still had many questions about the ordinance and said he plans to introduce a floor amendment tonight to reemphasize that no animal processing will be allowed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve put in there an actual limit in no liability of a slaughterhouse,\u201d Howland said.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Concerns and confusion are top of mind for people who live in one Southside Estates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,25631,72741,72742,347,72743,72744,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-153064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-apna-bazar","10":"tag-apna-bazar-jacksonville-fl","11":"tag-apna-bazar-slaughterhouse-proposal","12":"tag-cbs47","13":"tag-council-president-kevin-carrico","14":"tag-council-vice-president-nick-howland","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-fox30","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-jacksonville-fl","19":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","20":"tag-jacksonville-news","21":"tag-northeast-florida","22":"tag-southeast-georgia","23":"tag-wfox","24":"tag-wjax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153064","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=153064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}