a meeting Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n“Thank you, you heard it here,” said Atlantic Beach Mayor Curtis Ford.<\/p>\n
First Coast News has not been able to confirm the spelling of the new restaurant.<\/p>\n
Atlantic Beach commissioners looked at plans for a new restaurant at the building that would feature rooftop dining a block away from the ocean.<\/p>\n
“Absolutely love hearing it’s going to be a rooftop overlooking the beautiful scenery,” said Rebekah Overly while visiting Beaches Town Center.<\/p>\n
“The second floor, you capitalize on the beach,” said Gauslow.<\/p>\n
The interim city manager of Atlantic Beach explained city code would require a certain amount of landscaping to go along with the renovation.<\/p>\n
There’s only one problem – where to put the landscaping in Beaches Town Center.<\/p>\n
“It would be in excess of 10 parking space that would be lost if they came in to compliance,” said Askew.<\/p>\n
The developer and Atlantic Beach city staff came up with an alternative to avoid parking nightmares – give the city the landscaping cost, about $160,000, in lieu of the landscaping to be spent on Beaches Town Center improvements.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of a trust fund for that area,” said an Atlantic Beach city commissioner.<\/p>\n
There wasn’t a timeline for development, but a Askew said they’re ready to start construction relatively soon.<\/p>\n
“We’re ready for something to come in,” said Gauslow. “This neighborhood just keeps getting better and better.”<\/p>\n
Atlantic Beach city leaders will have a final vote on the landscaping ordinance next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developers are seeking a redevelopment ordinance to open a new restaurant with rooftop seating where Ragtime stood for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-206176","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\/206176","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=206176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}