A community in Brentwood is still at odds with the City of Jacksonville. It has to do with land across the street from a school.
The city purchased the land for $1.8 million to stop a liquor store from opening.
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Now, neighbors are back to protest the city’s plan to build a new Medical Examiner’s Office right behind it.
Action News Jax’s Nick Gibson spoke with a resident who said enough is enough.
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“It’s time for our elected officials to do the right thing,” Lydia Bell said.
Bell lives in Metro Gardens, a small neighborhood in the Brentwood area where families live, work, and go to school.
She is one of a team of residents who blocked a liquor store set to open right across the street from a local school. They ended up getting the City of Jacksonville to buy the land and stop the owner from selling liquor near their homes and schools.