Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton stepped closer Thursday to finalizing $23 million in improvements for downtown parks and amenities, among the mayor’s top goals for his last 18 months in office.
Peyton unveiled the final version of the plans, filing a bill that almost half of the 19-member City Council has already endorsed.
The money will be divided into three main projects: $11.9 million to repair the Southbank Riverwalk; $8.2 million for the first phase of enhancements to Metropolitan Park; and $3.2 million to fix and landscape Friendship Fountain.
The plans come three months after a 9 percent property tax increase, but Peyton’s staff stressed all of the downtown dollars have been earmarked for capital projects and cannot be used to help balance the budget.
“The worst thing we can do is succumb to paralysis and survivalist thinking by not doing anything,” Peyton said.
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