A standalone emergency room and a storage facility are proposed along 103rd Street near Interstate 295 in West Jacksonville under a rezoning request headed to Jacksonville City Council.
On Jan. 6, the Land Use and Zoning Committee voted 6-0 to recommend approval of rezoning a 5.54-acre property at 6916 103rd St. east of the interstate for a Baptist Health standalone emergency room and a separate storage facility business.
The request is to rezone the site from Commercial Community/General-1 and Commercial Community/General-2 to a Planned Unit Development.
A PUD allows uses, regulations and standards tailored to a property.
The property, across the street from a RaceTrac gas station, is divided into two parcels.
Parcel A, at southwest 103rd Street and Harlow Boulevard, is the 24,000-square-foot emergency room.
Parcel B is a three-story, 85,500-square-foot storage facility on the southeast corner of the property. The request does not include the name of the storage business.
It would be the third emergency room along 103rd Street, joining HCA Florida Park West Emergency and Ascension St. Vincent’s Urgent Care, both less than a mile from the planned Baptist location.
Other nearby emergency room facilities include the UF Health Emergency & Urgent Care Center and HCA Florida Normandy Park Emergency 4.5 miles north of the planned Baptist site, along with Ascension St. Vincent’s Emergency Care 4 miles south.
The rezoning request, Ordinance 2025-0757, advances to a full Council vote, likely on Jan. 13.
According to a staff report from the city Planning Department, the development is expected in two phases.
The first phase is the storage facility, the second the medical center.
The PUD also allows for commercial uses of up to 110 multifamily, town house or row house homes.
Attorney Hayden Phillips, who represents the developer, said the nonmedical uses are a backup if the Baptist plans fall through. At present, only the medical center and storage facility are planned.
The property is owned by 6916 103rd St LLC, which lists private real estate lender Luis Fajardo of Miami-based Funded Capital as its manager.
The PUD allows businesses on the property to sell alcohol, though that is not expected to happen, Phillips said.
“In the event things don’t work out with Baptist, we would like to have some flexibility,” Phillips told LUZ members.