- February 5, 2025
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On Thursday, June 28, the Port Orange Planning Commission voted 6-1 to amend a comprehensive plan future land use map to change approximately 24.7 acres from office-residential to solely urban medium density residential.
The property, located at 4000 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., is part of the Colony in the Wood Mobile Home Park. With this change, commercial buildings are taken off the table and only residential construction can go on this area of the property.
Board member Lance Green, the sole person to vote against the amendment, said that he did not want any more buildings being constructed on the property and felt that if the FLU did not change, there would most likely not be anything built on the land.
According to Sun Communities Divisional Vice President Sherri Woodworth, the plan is to add 10 additional homes only to the front of the community. She said in exchange for that, there is an agreement for $2.2 million in upgrades and that Sun Communities is working with the HOA on improvements in the community, including additional activities for residents and expansion of the clubhouse.
"We wanted to be able to give something back to the community," Woodworth said.
The remaining 57.2 acres are not included in the proposed amendment and will retain the current urban medium density residential designation. According to the case's report, there are no historical resources or significant wildlife habitats on the site. However, there are several existing trees present on the site. The property is surrounded by mobile home parks to the east and west as well as a single-family and mobile home to the south and commercial to the north.
According to the Institute of Transportation Engineers, residential dwelling units have a lower trip generation than office and commercial uses because office and commercial uses can attract trips from a larger area. Based on the ITE Trip Generation Manual, 9th Edition, the proposed FLU designation could generate 119 p.m. peak hour trips and 988 daily trips.
However, development proposal for the property will have to follow concurrency regulations at the time of development, requiring adequate transportation facilities to be provided or to mitigate their impacts.
According to city staff findings, "all public facilities have adequate capacity to accommodate the proposed amendment, and therefore there are no negative impacts."
