- November 5, 2024
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The city of Ormond Beach will allow local restaurants to display temporary signage to aid with business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Restaurants will now be allowed to have one display, flag or banner — measuring up to 64 square feet —on their property with no permit or fees until the city returns to normal operations. Currently, the city closure have been extended to May 8.
City Manager Joyce Shanahan suggested allowing temporary signage for these businesses during the city’s first-ever video conference city commission meeting, conducted through Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube.
The change requires a resolution due to the current code, and requires one reading, said City Attorney Randy Hayes. The commission can approve it at its next meeting on April 28.
“That’s about the earliest that we could do,” Hayes said.
Mayor Bill Partington said he would rather not wait the two weeks, and Hayes said the city could implement the change operationally until the resolution is passed, and not enforce the current sign code.
When it came to discussing the extended city closures, the commissioners said they trusted Shanahan to make the right decision, though Commissioner Dwight Selby said he would like to see all businesses open back up as soon as the governor lifts the stay-at-home order.
Ormond Beach residents David and Antoinette Slick have donated a portion of their property at 15 Signal Avenue in the Airport Business Park to the city, to be used for right-of-way purposes for the new access road to the airport.
City documents state that Signal Avenue is one of two roads within the business park planned for the extension into the airport. As the property is being donated, there is no budget impact.
Should social distancing guidelines remain in place come late May, Volusia County Schools announced that graduation ceremonies will be held during the week of July 6.
“After consulting with student leadership at our ten high schools and their principals, the overwhelming response was a desire to have a traditional graduation as opposed to alternative venues,” the VCS release stated.
Graduation ceremonies are still scheduled to occur in May if possible. Mainland High School and Seabreeze High School’s ceremonies are scheduled for 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 29, at the Ocean Center.
VCS said it will continue looking into the viability of other senior activities, including yearbook signings, senior breakfast alternatives, award ceremonies and college signings.
