Tag: Ability Housing

A.G. GancarskiMay 17, 2017
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The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee moved a number of key bills ahead of Tuesday’s meeting of the full legislative body. Among those bills: an extension of the Florida/Georgia football game contract, which would keep the game in Jacksonville until 2021; legislation impacting public service grants; and a long-mulled settlement of a city zoning decision […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 10, 2017
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What happens when the Americans for Disabilities Act meets a Jacksonville zoning overlay? A headache, some litigation, and, eventually, attempts by all parties to arrive at a workable compromise. Emphasis on the word “attempts,” as seemingly everyone outside of the lawyers who reached the compromise found something at which to balk. A bill that would […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2017
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The Jacksonville City Council launches into committees this Monday. A number of bills merit tracking, including measures related to historic Hemming Park and the Ability Housing settlement. Hemming Happening: Neighborhoods, Community Investments, and Services kicks off Monday morning with a consideration of a historic designation of the Coquina Road and Confederate monument structures in Hemming […]

Melissa RossDecember 29, 2015
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 The North and Central Florida nonprofit Ability Housing has received a $150,000 grant from the Florida Blue Foundation to support The Solution That Saves, a statewide pilot providing Florida-specific data on the effects of providing permanent supportive housing to high users of crisis services. Examples of that include arrests and/or involuntary commitment to mental health facilities. […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 16, 2015
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The long and winding battle between Ability Housing and residents of the Springfield neighborhood in Jacksonville continued Friday, with Ability Housing’s appeal of the Planning and Development Department’s refusal to grant an exception from a zoning overlaybeing. In May, the city of Jacksonville contended, according to WJCT, “that the facility’s intended use is ‘akin’ to that […]


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