The Jacksonville City Council voted July 23 to approve rezoning and a land use map amendment for a new mixed-use development at 13911 Atlantic Blvd. along the Intracoastal Waterway.
The vote was unanimous for Ordinance 2024-0395, the land use amendment, and also unanimous for Ordinance 2024-0396, the rezoning.
Plans for the 43.8-acre site, formerly Bellinger Shipyards, include multifamily residential units, a hotel, a waterfront restaurant and a marina with public access.
The rezoning also allows sale and service of all alcoholic beverages for on-premises and off-premises consumption on property located less than 1,500 feet from a church without the requirement to obtain a waiver of minimum distance for a liquor license.
The residential development be limited to 560 units, nonresidential commercial use – not including marina slips – be no more than 106,000 square feet. The total number of marina slips will not exceed 650.
The developer, Jacksonville Intracoastal LLC, and city negotiated a term sheet dividing costs of building the boat ramp and will evenly split the cost of the $1.63 million marina.
Site plans show a hotel and offices on the west side of the property, apartments on the north, a waterfront restaurant on the southeast corner, a parking garage and public boat parking along the southern edge and a public boat ramp providing access into the property’s Intracoastal basin.
A conceptual site plan with the legislation dated June 23, 2023, calls it Moody Marine Harbor.
The remainder of the construction plan will be presented to the city for approval, including a requirement for a traffic study added as an amendment to the land use amendment by the Council Land Use and Zoning Committee.