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Jacksonville Short-Term Rental Laws: A Real Conflict You Need to Resolve Before You Invest

Jacksonville Short-Term Rental Laws: A Real Con...

Every short-term rental guide agrees Jacksonville requires a certificate. They disagree, seriously, on where you're even allowed to operate one. Here's the conflict laid out plainly, and why you need...

Jacksonville Short-Term Rental Laws: A Real Con...

Every short-term rental guide agrees Jacksonville requires a certificate. They disagree, seriously, on where you're even allowed to operate one. Here's the conflict laid out plainly, and why you need...

A cartoon landscape of Black Hammock Island featuring a dirt road, horses and goats in a fenced pasture, and a cottage by a marsh at sunset.

Black Hammock Island Laws: Where You Can Legall...

Most of Jacksonville caps front yard fences at four feet. Black Hammock Island has an entire zoning overlay written to allow six, and it overrides the rest of the code...

Black Hammock Island Laws: Where You Can Legall...

Most of Jacksonville caps front yard fences at four feet. Black Hammock Island has an entire zoning overlay written to allow six, and it overrides the rest of the code...

A cartoon illustration in an ultra-wide landscape format shows a commercial street corridor with property owners improving their storefronts inside a highlighted zoning boundary line.

Renew Arlington Laws: The Grant That Helps Pay ...

The Renew Arlington overlay puts design standards on commercial corridors along University Boulevard, Merrill Road, and Arlington Road. Unusually, the city also created a grant to help property owners pay...

Renew Arlington Laws: The Grant That Helps Pay ...

The Renew Arlington overlay puts design standards on commercial corridors along University Boulevard, Merrill Road, and Arlington Road. Unusually, the city also created a grant to help property owners pay...

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Downtown Jacksonville Zoning: The Board That Re...

Downtown Jacksonville runs on its own zoning system. Almost every property sits in a single district, a separate board handles approvals that would normally go to the Planning Commission, and...

Downtown Jacksonville Zoning: The Board That Re...

Downtown Jacksonville runs on its own zoning system. Almost every property sits in a single district, a separate board handles approvals that would normally go to the Planning Commission, and...

Cartoon illustration of Jacksonville, Florida during Thanksgiving weekend, featuring people running a Turkey Trot along the Riverwalk and relaxing on a sunny beach.

Things to Do in Jacksonville for Thanksgiving W...

Petesgiving and the Turkey Trot cover Thursday morning. Here's what to do with the rest of Thanksgiving weekend, plus the real numbers on Jacksonville's November weather.

Things to Do in Jacksonville for Thanksgiving W...

Petesgiving and the Turkey Trot cover Thursday morning. Here's what to do with the rest of Thanksgiving weekend, plus the real numbers on Jacksonville's November weather.

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Springfield Historic District Laws: The COA You...

Springfield has two sets of rules stacked on each other: a historic district that controls how the outside of your building looks, and a zoning overlay that controls what you...

Springfield Historic District Laws: The COA You...

Springfield has two sets of rules stacked on each other: a historic district that controls how the outside of your building looks, and a zoning overlay that controls what you...