About 350 people applauded the 10 priorities and call to action Saturday to make the JAX2025 vision a reality.
"JAX2025 is about action and change," said Carl Cannon, one of the three chairs of the JAX2025 visioning effort.
"We're here to introduce the build-it phase," he said. "We're here to build your vision."
The report is called "Imagine it. Build it. Reach it."
After a series of community workshops and efforts to "imagine" the vision, the 100-page report (98 pages of text plus the cover) outlines ways to build it.
The implementation meeting to start to reach it is scheduled 11:30 a.m. June 26 at WJCT.
The vision document is the product of nine months of visioning work, four community meetings and more than 14,000 individual survey responses, according to Jacksonville Community Council Inc., which staffed the effort.
The council considers JAX2025 the broadest consensus vision for Jacksonville since the Jacksonville Insight process in 1992.
JAX2025 targets 10 areas of focus. They are, not in any specific order: education; economy; distinctive neighborhoods and a vibrant Downtown; arts and entertainment; a diverse and inclusive community; a place where people matter; a clean and green city; exemplary governance; transportation; and a healthy community.
Participants and residents are asked to pledge personal commitments to improve the city to help reach the goals in 12 years.
Cannon, former publisher of The Florida Times-Union, chaired the effort with Oliver Barakat, senior vice president of CBRE, and Ju'Coby Pittman-Peele, CEO and president of the Clara White Mission.
Also Saturday, Mayor Alvin Brown announced the "More of This, Less of That" campaign to encourage residents to take photos of what they like and what they want to see improved in the city.
The photos and ideas can be posted to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #MoreofThis or #LessofThat; posted to the City of Jacksonville Facebook page; or emailed to [email protected] or [email protected].
For more information about JAX2025, visit JAX2025.org. For more information about the more-and-less campaign, visit coj.net.
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