JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite the city not planning to take a vote or make any official changes a meat processing facility proposal , it hosted a community meeting to allow residents, city leaders and sponsors of the proposal to have an open-discussion at Living Stream Church.

The property is 11153 Beach Boulevard, in My Jax Plaza, situated between DeSalvo & Cortez Roads. The site currently includes multiple retail tenants.

Apna Bazar proposes to add a 30,000-square-foot addition plus a 23,800-square-foot freestanding structure for on-site slaughter, warehouse, storage, and retail storefronts.

The request involves a land use amendment and rezoning of parts of the property from residential/low density or residential/commercial to Light Industrial and/or Community/General Commercial. As

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