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Westside Jacksonville Laws: Argyle, Chimney Lakes, Normandy, and the Standard Code

Westside Jacksonville Laws: Argyle, Chimney Lak...

Argyle Forest, Chimney Lakes, Jacksonville Heights, Oak Hill, and Normandy are some of Jacksonville's fastest-growing suburban neighborhoods, and none of them carry a zoning overlay. Here's the standard code that...

Westside Jacksonville Laws: Argyle, Chimney Lak...

Argyle Forest, Chimney Lakes, Jacksonville Heights, Oak Hill, and Normandy are some of Jacksonville's fastest-growing suburban neighborhoods, and none of them carry a zoning overlay. Here's the standard code that...

Arlington Jacksonville Laws: Regency, Sans Souci, and Life Outside the Overlay

Arlington Jacksonville Laws: Regency, Sans Souc...

The Renew Arlington overlay only covers a few commercial corridors. The rest of Arlington, Regency, Sans Souci, and the neighborhoods around them, runs on the standard code, built almost overnight...

Arlington Jacksonville Laws: Regency, Sans Souc...

The Renew Arlington overlay only covers a few commercial corridors. The rest of Arlington, Regency, Sans Souci, and the neighborhoods around them, runs on the standard code, built almost overnight...

Urban Core Laws: Northbank, Southbank, and Where the Overlay Actually Ends

Urban Core Laws: Northbank, Southbank, and Wher...

Northbank and Southbank are the two halves of Jacksonville's Urban Core, split by the St. Johns River and connected by a free monorail. Both fall inside the Downtown Overlay covered...

Urban Core Laws: Northbank, Southbank, and Wher...

Northbank and Southbank are the two halves of Jacksonville's Urban Core, split by the St. Johns River and connected by a free monorail. Both fall inside the Downtown Overlay covered...

Jacksonville's Anti-Monotony Law: Why New Subdivisions Can't Build the Same House Twice in a Row

Jacksonville's Anti-Monotony Law: Why New Subdi...

There's a section of Jacksonville's zoning code almost nobody outside the building industry knows exists: a rule requiring new single-family homes to look different enough from their nearest neighbors. Here's...

Jacksonville's Anti-Monotony Law: Why New Subdi...

There's a section of Jacksonville's zoning code almost nobody outside the building industry knows exists: a rule requiring new single-family homes to look different enough from their nearest neighbors. Here's...

Jacksonville Golf Cart Laws: What Florida Changed in 2023, and What We Couldn't Confirm Locally

Jacksonville Golf Cart Laws: What Florida Chang...

Florida overhauled its golf cart age rules in 2023, and that state law is the floor everywhere in the state, including Jacksonville. What we couldn't confirm is whether Duval County...

Jacksonville Golf Cart Laws: What Florida Chang...

Florida overhauled its golf cart age rules in 2023, and that state law is the floor everywhere in the state, including Jacksonville. What we couldn't confirm is whether Duval County...

Jacksonville Grass Height and Nuisance Lot Laws: 15 Inches, Not 10

Jacksonville Grass Height and Nuisance Lot Laws...

Jacksonville allows grass and weeds to reach 15 inches before it's a violation, a full 5 inches more permissive than Jacksonville Beach's separate 10-inch rule covered earlier in this series....

Jacksonville Grass Height and Nuisance Lot Laws...

Jacksonville allows grass and weeds to reach 15 inches before it's a violation, a full 5 inches more permissive than Jacksonville Beach's separate 10-inch rule covered earlier in this series....