A rezoning request to allow for a standalone Baptist Health emergency room and adjacent personal storage facility in West Jacksonville cleared a final hurdle Jan. 13 with a 17-0 vote by Jacksonville City Council.
Allowed by Ordinance 2025-0757, the rezoning alters the site near Interstate 295 on 103rd Street from Commercial Community/General-1 and Commercial Community/General-2 to a Planned Unit Development. The Council vote constituted final action on the ordinance. Council members Ju’Coby Pittman and Rory Diamond were not present for the vote.
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.
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.
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 PUD also allows for commercial uses of up to 110 multifamily, town house or row house homes.
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.
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 PUD allows businesses on the property to sell alcohol, though that is not expected to happen, Phillips told members of the Land Use and Zoning Committee on Jan. 6.
“In the event things don’t work out with Baptist, we would like to have some flexibility,” Phillips said.