- February 8, 2025
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On Tuesday, Aug. 15, the Port Orange City Council approved a request to modify the Countryside PUD Master Land Use Plan with the intention of demolishing the existing building. This would make way to redevelop the site with a commercial multi-tenant building on the property.
The property, located at 1058 Dunlawton Ave., was zoned as a Planned Unit Development and was part of the Countryside PUD. According to city documents, the Countryside PUD was approved in 1981 and established as a mixed-use development.
Tim Burman, Port Orange planning manager, said this would be the fifteenth time the Countryside Master Plan has been amended.
"The way this was zoned about 30 years ago was that the only use on this commercial property is a bank," Burman said. "So what theyre looking to do is to expand that use to allow for redevelopments."
The amendment to the Countryside PUD Master Land Use Plan, also known as the Master Development Agreement and Conceptual Development Plan, will affect the area at the southwest corner of Dunlawton Avenue and South Swallow Tail Drive where the former Sunburst Bank property is located.
The bank was in use on the property from 1981 to 2016; the property has been vacant since 2017, according to the city.
"When I read it, I was was happy to see a request that did not permit a gas station in there," Councilman Chase Tramont said.
The amendment will expand the bank use to allow additional commercial uses. The Community Commercial zoning district allows for "typical community-scale commercial uses commonly found at shopping centers and outparcels of this type," according to the city council agenda document.
The current agreement only allows for one convenience store with fuel on the north side and a second on the south side of Dunlawton within the Countryside PUD. There is currently a Wawa convenience store on the north side of Dunlawton Avenue and a Circle K on the south side of Dunlawton. Unless one of the existing stores closes, no additional convneince stores with gas are allowed, city documents show.
According to Burman, there is a concept design for the building that would take the place of the bank but nothing official has been submitted.
"It's a beautiful area," Vice Mayor Bob Ford said. "I would like to keep...the ambiance of the area nice."
