Jacksonville mayoral candidates differ on best path for city's growth and development
Jacksonville’s next mayor will have many policy issues to tackle, and tweaking the overall vision for how, when and where the city is developed is on most candidate’s agendas in one way or another.
For a long time, politicians have spoken about the importance of downtown development and offered incentives to businesses to get them to the area. The city has even had a years-long goal of adding 10,000 more residents to the downtown landscape.
Yet, no matter what happens downtown, people seem to agree Jacksonville is always on the cusp of its potential there. This mayoral cycle’s candidates have their own thoughts on the most common proposals to improve Jacksonville’s development plans.
Donna Deegan (D) said she is “tired of seeing renderings come and go.”
“It comes with having a strategic plan that we can come back to,” she said. “We need a strategic plan that allows a variety of folks to live downtown in all sizes. We need to bring more arts and entertainment, educational centers [and] medical education. There’s all sorts of things that we could put together that makes sense for a vision.”
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