The Jacksonville City Council Land Use & Zoning Committee convened on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM in Council Chamber, City Hall, and adjourned at 8:36 PM. Chair Joe Carlucci presided. The committee considered 41 agenda items including rezoning requests, comprehensive plan amendments, zoning exceptions, and waivers. Several items drew extensive public comment, particularly the Morse Avenue land use change and the Mundy Drive frontage waiver. The committee voted to approve multiple items, continued others to April 21, 2026, and deferred several to the next cycle.
Note: The next regular meeting is Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
All right. Good evening. It is 5 o'clock, April 7th. We are going to go ahead and convene the land use and zoning committee. And we will start with introductions to the left. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Rachman Johnson, District 14. Good afternoon, Council members on the Afghan Julian, District 8. Good evening. Rory Diamond, District 13, the beaches. I almost forgot. Almost forgot. Joe Carlucci, District 5. Raw Aries, District 11. Terrence Freeman at large group one. Randy White, District 12. Terrence Harvey, opposite general counsel. Susan Kelly, Planning Department. Karen Abney, Planning Department. Casey Cox, Planning Department. All right. And we want to go ahead and make our introductions of our pages this evening. We have Miss Sarah Aegel over here from River City Science Academy. Thank you so much for being here. And we have Advic Gupta over here. He is at Julia Landon College Prep. District 5. Thank you for being here. All right. So we are going to have a few like two changes on the agenda today. So if everyone will turn to page 14, item 29. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we're gonna go to item 29, 2026, 172. But before we declare ex parte on that, I do want to recognize Councilmember Johnson. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate you giving me just a few moments. I wanted to recognize the members of the team, Miss Leatris Bell and those other wonderful people who are uh come representing the George Grady Bridge. Uh they came tonight and they were planning to speak, but they are still very just passionate about getting the George Brady Bridge open, and I just wanted to recognize them for coming. They're not going to speak tonight, but they uh are supportive of trying to make sure that that amenity is available for everybody. So thank you all for your tenacity and continuing to move things forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right, thank you all for being here, taking the time out of your day to come down. We appreciate that. Um, item number 29, 2026 172. Council members, please declare any ex parte communication you have at this time. Uh believe where is mine. Well, let me get my okay. Well, I declare ex parte.