{"id":296192,"date":"2026-06-04T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:18:08","slug":"councilman-withdraws-zoning-proposal-that-would-have-reduced-public-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296192\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilman withdraws zoning proposal that would have reduced public input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal that would limit public hearings on certain property rezonings is set to be withdrawn from Jacksonville City Council consideration after receiving community opposition.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h956901-p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/06\/01\/jacksonville-property-tax-effect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Council member Rory Diamond<\/a> introduced Ordinance 2026-0367, which would allow the city\u2019s Planning Department to grant applications for administrative zoning deviations without a currently required public hearing and with eased requirements for approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After initially saying he would defer the legislation for at least two months, Diamond said Monday that he would request to withdraw it. In a text message, he said the legislation was a \u201cgood bill\u201d but that it wasn\u2019t \u201cworth the fight when there are other priorities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jun\/03\/following-criticism-council-member-withdraws-ordinance-limiting-some-public-hearings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal that would limit public hearings on certain property rezonings is set to be withdrawn from Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-296192","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\/296192","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=296192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}