Parking and Building Orientation Requirements by Corridor.
Jacksonville Ordinance Code § 656.399.28
in effectSec. 656.399.28. - Parking and Building Orientation Requirements by Corridor.
The following table provides additional provisions for parking and building orientation by corridor segment.
Table 4.0 Parking and Building Orientation
Corridor | Segment From: | To: | Standards
1. Park Street | Margaret Street | Acosta Street | No additional standards.
2. Park Street | Acosta Street | James Street | 1. All current parking is on-street parking.
3. King Street | College Street | Herschel Street | No additional standards.
4. King Street | Herschel Street | St. Johns Street | No additional standards.
5. Riverside Avenue | Goodwin Street | King Street | Permit existing parallel parking only. No new parking shall be permitted on this street.
6. Oak Street | King Street | Barrs Street | No additional standards.
7. Stockton Street | I-10 | Gilmore Street | New commercial uses shall be required to reorient the commercial use entrance toward Stockton Street.
8. Stockton Street | Myra Street | College Street | New commercial uses shall be required to reorient the commercial use entrance toward Stockton Street.
9. Stockton Street | Gilmore Street | Myra Street | No additional standards.
10. Stockton Street | College Street | St. Johns River | No additional standards.
11. St. Johns Avenue | Talbot Avenue | Dancy Street | All current parking is on-street parking.
12. Park Street | Ingleside Avenue | Dancy Street | All current parking is on-street parking.
13. St. Johns Village | Off-street parking shall be required to be located interior to the site or in a parking garage or other enclosed type of parking facility.
14. McDuff Avenue | Sydney Street | Downing Street | No additional standards.
15. McDuff Avenue | Roosevelt Boulevard south across U.S. 17 to McKinlay Court | No additional standards.
The existing street grid pattern shall be maintained and new block structure shall be consistent with the adjacent grid pattern. The following standards shall be considered for large scale development proposed in the Riverside/Avondale Zoning Overlay Area.
(1) The foundation of urban form is the grid block structure. Existing or new streets (public or private) must divide the site into blocks. Block lengths shall be between 250 feet by 500 feet or consistent with the adjacent block grid.
(2) The redevelopment site shall contain at least one pedestrian-oriented street, as defined throughout this Section. The length shall be several blocks, and an intersection of two pedestrian-oriented streets provides for an internal site focal point.
(3) New internal streets shall be designed as pedestrian-oriented streets as outlined in the following chart.
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Table 5. Internal Street Design.
Pedestrian-Oriented Streets
Travel Lane Number | 2, two-way
Travel Lane Width | 10 ft.
Parking Lane | Both sides, every block
Parking Lane Width | 7 ft.
Sidewalks | Both sides, every block
Sidewalk Width | 11 ft. (furniture*, walking, cafes) (UTA/Commercial only)
Planting Strip Width | None (wide sidewalk adjacent to parking lane)
Urban Landscape | At a minimum, a 36" diameter pot by 24" high should be provided every 20 lineal feet of building frontage. The plant species should be 2 times as high as the height of the pot. Low growing plants, flowering annuals should be planted at the base of the pot
Landscaping | Street trees in wells
Traffic Calming | Bulb-outs, pavement texture, raised crosswalks
*Street furniture are those features associated with a street that are intended to enhance the street's physical character and use by pedestrians, such as benches, bus shelters, trash receptacles, planting containers, pedestrian lighting, kiosks, etc.
(Ord. 2008-192-E, § 3)
Source: City of Jacksonville, Ordinance Code and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/jacksonville/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITXVIILAUS_CH656ZOCO_PT3SCDIRE_SPORIAVZOOV_S656.399.28PABUORRECOFetched: 10/27/2026
