Jacksonville is considered a metropolitan area and just like Raleigh and Charlotte, it offers a cultural experience to many tourists who visit.
Food trucks and their means of cooking up different varieties of tasty options normally fit into that experience people search for in order to sample the local cuisine. Depending on who you ask you ll come across different opinions of how food trucks have been utilized within the city limits.
However one thing is certain, Jacksonville was not as food truck friendly as other surrounding towns.
It wasn t intentional but over a four-year time span there seemed to be a misunderstanding between the city and food truck owners attempting to change the text of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) so that these restaurants on wheels had more freedoms to operate.
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Saratoga Springs Mayor Meg Kelly and members of the city council delivered the 2021 State of the City address Tuesday night.
An affair usually held in a large conference room at the Saratoga Springs City Center, the 2021 State of the City address this year went virtual.
It was the last for Democratic Mayor Meg Kelly, who recently announced she would not seek a third two-year term. Kelly opened her remarks by putting things in perspective – last year at this time, city government was hoping it would be able to move operations back into City Hall on Broadway after a lightning strike and small fire damaged the building in August 2018.
When Fredericksburg Planning and Building Director Chuck Johnston said there had been no public comments about changing density limits in the downtown Historic District, Councilman Matt Kelly was concerned.
The issue has been discussed by officials since the Planning Commission held a public hearing in November, but Kelly believes the wording of the advanced notice likely confused many residents.
Kelly prefers a more succinct breakdown of the proposed Unified Development Ordinance text amendment thatâs scheduled to be voted on by City Council on Tuesday. The amendment states it âwould permit project-based residential density by special use permit within the Old and Historic Overlay District and increase the by-right residential density in a mixed-use project from 24 to 36 units per acre.â