Plans to convert a 1960s-era service station into the brick-and-mortar home of the Eat Happy Jax food truck are in motion after action by the Jacksonville Planning Commission on Sept. 5.By unanimous votes, the commission approved requests for a set of zoning code deviations and a waiver of a requirement to allow alcohol sales at the proposed restaurant at 4323 Herschel St., at northeast Herschel Street and San Juan Avenue.In an unusual circumstance, the Planning Commission’s votes amounted to final approvals.
Plans call for the long-vacant building to be repurposed as a seafood restaurant with both indoor and outdoor seating. Online menus for the food truck show such items as fish and shrimp baskets, shrimp po’boys, chicken sandwiches and wings.
