RE
Raul E. Arias, Jr.
Council Member
District 11
Jacksonville, FL
October 20, 2026
Last heard
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at 30:11And based on the square footage, blah, blah, blah, blah, saying that if they can't find the parking, that they're going to be able to do right away off-street parking, meaning like going into the neighborhoods.
at 30:46So how do we know – how do we put measures in place to make sure that we protect the neighborhoods in case they don't get the agreements done with rethreaded or with anybody else?
at 57:56audience right now that there was about five people in attendance from the community. And I also want to,
at 58:45with them at all? Because that's the department in our city that actually manages this. And I know Councilmember
at 37:48So when we have these in-depth conversation later on, one thing that I would like to see if you guys could prepare ahead of time would be the breakdown of how much are we spending annually for maintenance and operators versus executive level teams.
at 38:09But I just want to make sure that if you guys are laying off, the majority will come from that higher branch versus the lower branch because the lower branch is really the ones that we need doing the services, putting the work in the community for the people that need these services.
at 1:10:26Just wanted to declare ex parte, I spoke to the applicants on August 7th at 10.30 a.m. regarding this renovation for this fitness center,
at 1:10:35which is really a paddle club, and it's currently being filed.
at 1:49:30So, one of the biggest things with FAC is that, you know, we put a call to action to them last year when we were about to cut them, and we said, hey, we want you guys to come up here to Jacksonville, do a tour.
at 1:50:09We're going to start at the Mayo Clinic and then go to JTA, then the Jaguar Stadium of the Future, then the Ritz Theater, and then on top of that, they're going to do other stops that are not listed here.
at 2:31:32I'm going to hand it over to OGC, Mr. Harvey, to go over the details on the floor amendment.
at 2:32:07Just wanted to thank my colleagues on LUZ, Mr. Zach Miller, for being there for our community.
at 0:01All right. Good evening, everybody. It is 5 o'clock on August 19th. We're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to convene the Land Use and Zoning Committee with introductions to my left.
at 1:05:50But without any really further debate, we're going to defer 2026-532, and we will go ahead and open the public hearing again, and we'll continue this public hearing until – what date?
at 1:45:59So just two bullet points very quick for the council members here is the fact that next week we're going to have a public notice meeting,
at 1:47:45I was only asking because when we have the meeting next week, the communities want to know what's going on with that,