With a delivery warehouse for what appears to be Amazon.com in review near Craig Airport, the Florida Department of Transportation is working on a permit for improvements to create a roadway on property between two car dealerships to connect Atlantic Boulevard to the project.
The property is in East Arlington at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road.
Atlanta-based Seefried Properties Inc. seeks the permit, and the development is listed as the Jacksonville Delivery Station DJX4.
DJX is code for an Amazon.com Jacksonville delivery station, where packages are sent for the final leg of distribution to customers.
The department is taking public comment through Nov. 17 about the proposed improvements to determine whether the new roadway and median modifications will be permitted to move forward.
The department is reviewing permit-related median modifications at the intersection of Atlantic and Sutton Lakes boulevards that include modifying the signal at Sutton Lakes Boulevard.
It would accommodate a new permitted roadway on the north side of Atlantic Boulevard between the Land Rover Jacksonville and Duval Acura dealerships.
The department said it is a private project on property owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority.
The authority says it is supporting the developer on the proposed roadway to provide access to the proposed warehouse-distribution facility.
It said initially the road will support both adjoining dealerships and provide a secondary access to the new development only.
The authority said the current access to the proposed site is General Doolittle Road, which has “right-in, right-out” access off of Atlantic Boulevard.
The proposed new road would provide a signalized access point that will provide a left turn for traffic heading east.
JAA said traffic to and from the proposed development will be split between those two roadways.
Long-term maintenance, ownership and naming are to be determined and will be addressed if the signalization and project move forward, the authority said.
The transportation department said all roadway modifications will be paid by the developer if the project moves forward. The road would not be an FDOT-maintained road.
Seefried will be responsible for the cost of the proposed median modifications.
The transportation department held a public hearing Nov. 3 in person and online.
Speakers voiced concerns about how traffic generated by the project will affect people living in the Sutton Lakes residential community south of Atlantic Boulevard and about the lack of information circulated about it.
The delivery station for the Seattle-based e-commerce retailer is in review for JAA nonaeronautical property targeted for industrial development near Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport.
The site is north of the car dealerships.
The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing plans for Seefried to develop a 131,512-square-foot delivery station on a 77.53-acre site at Craig at 855 St. Johns Bluff Road N.
Craig is the authority’s airport for corporate aviation and flight training. It has acreage that can be developed and does not impede aviation activity.