a fire damaged<\/a> about 50 cars inside the hourly garage at Jacksonville International Airport, leaving many drivers in limbo.<\/p>\nThe Jacksonville Aviation Authority is asking for $38 million to investigate the cause of the fire, assess the damage, and repair the garage.<\/p>\n
First Coast News received the following statement from the JAA:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe $38 million amendment to the budget provides JAA the budget authority to cover the entirety of the project, from assessment to reconstruction. While there is no set timeline for project completion, we expect the garage to be fully back in service within two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacksonville City Council Member Matt Carlucci fully supports the project and knows the impact first-hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy car, my wife\u2019s car were in the garage where the fire happened. Luckily, we were just far enough away that we didn\u2019t incur any smoke damage or fire damage,” said Carlucci. “We didn\u2019t know what was going on,\u201d said Carlucci.<\/p>\n
Other drivers told First Coast News the city should take this seriously. Carlucci says the council should make this project a priority.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need to point any fingers, we just need to repair what needs to be repaired and put any risk management measures that need to be put there that may maybe we weren\u2019t there before but we\u2019ve got a great airport. I have great confidence in the leadership one of the bright spots in Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nFunding and Next Steps <\/p>\n
The city says the funding won\u2019t fall on taxpayers.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether insurance will reimburse JAA for the cost of the project.<\/p>\n
The $38 million proposal was presented to the City Council; however, no vote has been scheduled yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 50 cars were trapped earlier this year after a fire damaged the hourly parking garage at Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-178357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097882064832415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}