{"id":408134,"date":"2026-09-23T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:18:09","slug":"jacksonville-council-approves-six-voluntary-annexations-along-richlands-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408134\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville council approves six voluntary annexations along Richlands Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 According to the City of Jacksonville\u2019s Sept. 22 meeting livestream and agenda packet, City Council approved 6 voluntary annexations Tuesday night for properties along Richlands Highway tied to proposed commercial development.<\/p>\n<p>City staff said the properties involve 3 separate development areas.<\/p>\n<p>One annexation covers 1.04 acres at 2749 Richlands Highway. According to the city\u2019s agenda packet, the property is the site of a 7 Brew coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>The council also approved annexations for 4 properties near Richlands Highway and Yopp Road.<\/p>\n<p>City staff said those properties will be combined for a development that could include 4 commercial businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The annexed properties include parcels owned by Yopp, Sikes and Richards trustees, Roy and Katherine Heath, the Potter heirs and Sherra LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Council also approved the voluntary annexation of 5 parcels totaling 3.15 acres near Richlands Highway and Bridgett Lane.<\/p>\n<p>According to city staff, that property is also planned for 4 commercial businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The city said the annexation requests were submitted by the property owners or their representatives.<\/p>\n<p>During the City of Jacksonville\u2019s required public hearings, no one spoke on the annexation requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 According to the City of Jacksonville\u2019s Sept. 22 meeting livestream and agenda packet, City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-408134","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\/408134","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=408134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}