Sec. 745.101. - Applicability.

(a) Applicability. All addressing and street naming functions shall be centralized in the Public Works Department of the City of Jacksonville, including but not limited to, naming new streets, renaming and existing streets, assigning addresses to new plats, and assigning addresses for new residential and commercial construction. All applicants applying to name a new street, rename an existing street, or receive a residential or commercial address shall comply with this Chapter 745 and the City of Jacksonville's Addressing and Street Naming Policy ("Policy"), as may be amended from time to time, and on file with the Office of Legislative Services and the Public Works Department. To ensure consistency and uniformity, the performance of addressing or street naming functions by any other entity within the City of Jacksonville is strictly prohibited. The City retains the authority to assign addresses and street names and change addresses and street names to protect the public health, safety, and welfare and to ensure compliance with the Policy. (b) Definitions. The following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations, as listed in alphabetical order herein, shall have the meaning contained below, when referenced within this Chapter or the Addressing and Street Naming Policy unless otherwise referenced within specific Sections. Access shall mean the legal path, driveway, or roadway used by a property owner or tenant to drive from a roadway to the property or building. Access to a property may be provided by an easement from a roadway to the property, or by directly fronting onto an existing roadway. Address Numbers shall mean the Western Arabic/European symbol for the numbers which are the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) along with the system by which a sequence such as "307" is read as the number. Approved Private Road shall mean a privately owned and maintained roadway that meets the same construction and design standards of a public road as established in the Subdivision Code or shall mean any privately owned and maintained thoroughfare that has been designated as an "Approved Private Road" by the Director of Public Works. Front shall mean to have primary access, for a building or other principal use, from an abutting public or private street. Nonconforming Street Address shall mean any primary street address numbers which are assigned in a manner that hinders the ability to promptly locate a property or structure based on its assigned primary street address number, including but not limited to, overlapping primary address numbers and outdated primary address numbers due to redevelopment. Owner shall mean any and all persons, firms, entities, trusts, partnerships, corporations, associations, or other organizations owning the fee title to, or having an interest in, any building or property which is subject to the provisions of the Section. Primary address number shall mean the number assigned to a particular structure or property. The number may range from one to five digits depending on the parcel/structure/occupancy's location. Public Maintained Road shall mean any publicly maintained thoroughfare located on a formal, dedicated public right-of-way. Public right-of-way shall mean any formal, dedicated right-of-way that is established for the purpose of allowing vehicular access and passage. Public Unmaintained Road shall mean a privately maintained road, lying within a dedicated public right-of-way. Root street name shall mean all parts of a street name except the street type, and where applicable, the pre-street direction and /or post-street direction. Components of the root street name, including compass directions and road types that are part of the root are never abbreviated. Numeric root names are an exception; they are always presented as numeric abbreviations except when they must be spelled out to be distinguished from nearby streets with duplicate names. Site address shall mean all elements necessary to identify a location with the City; a site address consists of a primary address number, a street name, and in some cases, secondary address units. Street shall mean a right-of-way for vehicular traffic which serves two (2) or more principal structures or crosses multiple parcel boundaries. Street direction shall mean any of the eight basic compass directions, abbreviated as follows: N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, or SW. If a pre-street direction is used, it is the first element of the street name. If a post-street direction is used, it is the last element of the street name. Compass directions that occur in any but the first or last positions in a street name are actually components of the root street name. Street name shall mean the full name of a street, which includes the following elements: a root street name, a street type, and in some cases, one or two street directions. Street type shall mean a road type presented as a standard abbreviation following the root street name. If a post-street direction is used, the street type directly precedes the post-street direction; otherwise, the street type is the last element of the street name. Road types that occur in any other position are actually components of the root street name. Unnamed Shared Accessway shall mean any unapproved private road, public unmaintained road, unopened public right-of-way or any recorded easement that has been established for the purpose of providing vehicular access or passage that functions as the primary access route to more than one dwelling or commercial building. Unapproved Private Road shall mean any privately owned and maintained road that fails to meet the construction and design standards of a public road as established in the Subdivision Code and/or has not received (or maintained) a designation of "Approved Private Road" from the Director of Public Works. Unopened public right-of-way shall mean any formal, dedicated public right-of-way that is established for the purpose of allowing vehicular access or passage, but that the City has no record or evidence of use or construction. (Ord. 2002-992-E, § 2; Ord. 2009-202-E, § 1; Ord. 2019-843-E , § 4; Ord. 2023-270-E , § 3; Ord. 2025-30-E , § 23)