A neighborhood group in North Jacksonville is asking a federal judge to stop the city’s new medical examiner’s office from opening just blocks from a school and their homes, saying it threatens their health, safety and dignity.
The request for an injunction, filed June 20, comes just a year after the Metro Gardens Neighborhood Association sued the city to stop the 51,000-square-foot office.
Association leaders have long pushed for the city to stop building the $62.84 million facility on North Davis Street, saying it is only 32 feet from the KIPP Voice Academy’s elementary and middle school-aged students. They also say the “morgue,” as they call it, is an industrial facility that does not belong in their neighborhood in Brentwood, a block off Golfair Boulevard…