Plans for a proposed RV park in west Duval County are moving forward after actions Dec. 5 by the Jacksonville Planning Commission.
The commission voted 7-0 to recommend approval of a rezoning (Ordinance 2023-0326) and small-scale future land use map amendment (Ordinance 2023-0325) for the project, which is along Brandy Branch Road north of Interstate 10 and west of the I-10-U.S. 301 interchange.
Plans call for a park with up to 418 RV parking sites on the 33.95-acre parcel.
The land was zoned Planned Unit Development in 2007 for a proposed residential subdivision. That project did not materialize and the parcel remains undeveloped. If approved by the City Council, the rezoning would be to Planned Unit Development to allow for the RV park.
The land use would change from low-density residential to agricultural.
The commission approved the rezoning without staff-recommended conditions that the developer provide a traffic study and install a sidewalk on the frontage of Brandy Branch Road.
Paul Harden, a land use attorney representing the property owner, argued that sidewalk was unnecessary because the parcel is between two large undeveloped areas.
“It would be a sidewalk from 10,000 acres of open space to another 10,000 acres of open space,” he said.
He said the remote nature of the property also made the traffic study unnecessary.
“I don’t know what a traffic study would tell you, other than the fact that the only people who would be coming here are coming to an RV park off the interstate,” he said.
A staff report attached to the ordinance applications list the property owner as James M. Coleman of JMC Duval County Properties LLC, based in Callahan.