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Revisiting the 20 is Plenty speed reduction initiative
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Mayor Deegan Coming to District 7 for Community Conversation BY MICHELE LEIVAS
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VOL. 16, ISSUE 08
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HAVING FUN As the sun sets on summer break, new experiences and friendships dawned for local youth at camps throughout Jacksonville as they embraced the traditional outdoor experiences, sharpened sports skills or forged ahead with cutting-edge technologies.
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Mayor Donna Deegan has announced she will hold a series of Community Conversations in all of Jacksonville’s 14 city council districts throughout the month of August. The announcement came in a July 26 press release, which shared that the aim of these meetings is to “to give every voice in Jacksonville a chance to be heard.” Topics of conversation, according to the release, will include arts, constituency and community outreach, culture and entertainment, economy, health, infrastructure, military and veteran affairs and public safety. These meetings are open to the public. District 7’s scheduled Community Conversation will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 9, from 6-8 p.m. at Riverside Presbyterian Church (849 Park Street).
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Read about District 7 Council Member Peluso’s Community Meeting regarding future development along Oak Street, revisiting the 2016 Planned Unit Development (PUD) for The Local, formerly The Roost. Restaurateurs Ted Stein and J.C. Demetree answered questions and concerns from neighbors at the July 27 meeting at Riverside Presbyterian Church. AUGUST 2023
Safety in Numbers
With Jacksonville continuously ranking as one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the country for pedestrians, efforts continue on the “20 is Plenty” initiative to reduce residential speed limits from 30 to 20 miles per hour.
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Earlier this summer, Walgreens Boots Alliance, the multinational holding company that owns Walgreens in the United States and Boots in the United Kingdom, announced it would be closing 450 locations in the United States and the UK. Of those closures, 150 of them will occur in the United States. Several media outlets reported the announcement of the closures, which supposedly came during the company’s most recent earnings conference call. A June 30 article published by Bisnow National reported these closures are part of the company’s cost-cutting efforts as Walgreens reported reduced consumer demand in “Covidrelated products” and inconsistent consumer spending during its third fiscal quarter. The Bisnow article quoted Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer as stating during the earnings call, “We had called out Covid as a wild card heading into the quarter and have unfortunately seen READ MORE ON PAGE 8 less patient willingness to vaccinate.”
JSO HostsTown Hall
Agency unveils Realignment Project, new programs
BY MICHELE LEIVAS Sheriff T.K. Waters welcomed the community to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) Town Hall Meeting at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center on Wednesday, July 19, where he shared several announcements and discussed new JSO additions.
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Zoned Out During his address, Waters unveiled his Realignment Project, which replaced JSO’s former Zones of Response with Police Service Districts. These new districts redraw the boundaries of the former zones, creating new borders for each of the six new districts for Jacksonville. Specific to The Resident News readership, the newly minted District 1 pulls San Marco from its former Patrol Zone 3 (where it was grouped with Southside and Mandarin) and combines it with the areas of the old Patrol Zone 1, including Downtown, Eastside and Springfield. Brooklyn joins it as well. Riverside, now within the boundaries of District 5, was separated from Ortega, Avondale and Westside, which had all been grouped together in the former Patrol Zone 4. READ MORE ON PAGE 39
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