{"id":301985,"date":"2026-06-10T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301985\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:27:07","slug":"eastside-residential-commercial-development-gains-councils-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301985\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastside residential, commercial development gains Council\u2019s OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h959266-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">A planned Eastside infill development with 77 residential units and 25,000 square feet of commercial space is set to move forward after receiving Jacksonville City Council approval on June 9.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Council approved a rezoning and land use change for 3.37 acres near East Eighth Street and Phoenix Avenue for the project with 14-0 votes. Members Raul Arias, Rory Diamond, Chris Miller, Jimmy Peluso and Ron Salem were not present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The site is about 1 mile north of EverBank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The property owner is Perfect Score Realty Group II LLC, which according to state records is managed by Lucius and Jacqueline Lattimore of Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Council votes came on Ordinance 2026-0292, which contained a rezoning from Industrial Light to a Planned Unit Development, and ordinance 2026-0291, which contained a land use change from \u00a0Light Industrial to Community\/General Commercial.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">A PUD allows uses, regulations and standards tailored to a property.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">Attorney Cyndy Trimmer, representing the Lattimores, said the developers were seeking partners to build affordable and workforce housing on the property. Trimmer is with the Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne &amp; Diebenow firm.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">The project would be developed in five phases, according to a staff report. Phases one and three would include commercial and residential development. Phases two, four and five would include multifamily residential development.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">Parking on the property would provide 2.5 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet for commercial and retail space. For multifamily space, there would be 1.5 spaces per one-bedroom unit, two spaces per two-bedroom unit and 2.25 spaces per three-bedroom unit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">The area around the proposed development is a mix of single and multifamily residences, churches and an array of industrial and commercial uses, according to the Planning Department staff report.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959266-p11\" class=\"permalinkable\">Optima Construction Management LLC will serve as the planner and engineer, according to the application.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A planned Eastside infill development with 77 residential units and 25,000 square feet of commercial space is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-301985","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\/301985","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=301985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}