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2011-2013 Board of Directors Chair Tony Robbins, AICP Vice Chair Betty Sue Stepp, AICP Secretary Beth Payne, AICP Treasurer Don Smith, AICP
From Ideas to Actions: Jacksonville’s North Point Town Center Neighborhood Action Plans (NAP) address a multitude of issues in a variety of the City of Jacksonville’s older, more neglected neighborhoods and contain strategies and recommendations that can be put into action. The City’s Current Planning Division utilize NAP to provide a cohesive and comprehensive plan for development of a particular area that partners with the community to develop the overall recommendations of the plan. In general, the NAP specifically addresses the concerns of the neighborhood residents of the targeted area. The recommendations of the plan are not regulations imposed on people, but rather a policy framework to evaluate land use and zoning changes within a NAP. The Current Planning Division promotes the NAP recommendations to assure each community’s respective vision are respected during decisions about land use and zoning changes.
Immediate Past Chair Stephen Tocknell, AICP
Issue 2, Volume 5 March/April 2012
First Coast Events First Coast APA Board Meeting Friday, April 6, 2012 8:30 am offices of England, Thims & Miller, Inc.
Join Us! Join First Coast APAFL and North Florida Urban Land Institute for the 2012 Legislative Update. Lester Abberger and Tom Beck will be our guest speakers.
Alyce Decker, AICP Fred Jones, AICP
Wednesday, April 4 Noon ‐ 1:30 PM at Aloft Tapestry Park.
Steve Lindorff, AICP Ennis Davis
In This Issue
Jennifer Hewett-Apperson, AICP
Endangered Neighborhoods…..2
Sungman Kim, AICP, Ph.D.
Restore Jacksonville Conference……....3
Kristen Reed, AICP Duncan Ross, AICP
Since 1977 a total of nineteen NAP have been completed and adopted by the Jacksonville City Council. I met with the Current Planning th Division’s Lisa Ransom and Emery Nauden to learn about the 29 & Chase NAP which is bearing some fruit and having its goals and objectives implemented with exciting results. The 29th & Chase NAP Study Area is located in central Duval County north of the Martin Luther King Expressway, east of Canal Street, west of I-95 and the St. Johns River, with railroad tracks to the north.
Private Passenger Rail………………...5 North Point Town Center (continued)..………7 Opinion….…………9 Announcements…...10
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