Funeral home’s rezoning request underscores longstanding drainage problem

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The proposed placement of a funeral home on a 0.77-acre property at 370 South Jefferson St. has served tangentially to underscore a longstanding stormwater drainage problem that city officials put squarely on the doorstep of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The triggering issue involves the requested rezoning of the rear portion of the Jefferson Street property from R-1 residential to B-2 business highway to match the front portion. Tied to the rezoning, the applicant is asking that the rear portion of the property, which is designated as conservation/low density residential in the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) of the comprehensive plan,