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The Ormond Beach Planning Board will meet on Thursday, April 14, to discuss a major amendment to the Plantation Oaks development order that, if approved, would add 291 single-family homes to the subdivision.
The homes would go in a 53-acre site that was previously set aside as a public school site and in a 145-acre parcel that was initially planned for a golf course.
Plantation Oaks is currently approved to build 1,577 homes, made up of both age-restricted manufactured homes and single-family lots. If ultimately approved by the City Commission, the development will be able to build 1,868 lots.
This is the second time developer Parker Mynchenberg, manager of Plantation Oaks of Ormond Beach LLC, has returned to the city for an amendment to the Planned Residential Development since Plantation Oaks was annexed into the city in 2019. The 1,033-acre project by the Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail was first approved by Volusia County in 2002.
In January 2021, the City Commission approved three amendments to the PRD which included lifting the age-restriction within the project’s first phase and changing the type of homes from manufactured to single-family.
A portion of the golf course parcel is located within first phase of the project, which is already slated for 669 single-family lots. The amendment seeks to add 80 more.
The latest amendment request also asks for the age restriction to be lifted from the third phase of the project, the prohibition of manufactured homes and using the remainder of the golf course land to build 86 more lots.
The remainder of the new lots requested would be located in the fourth phase of the project — 125 lots in the previously proposed school site. The city stated in an email that the school site is no longer needed.
The new amendment would also remove the 33 acres near Old Dixie Highway purchased by Volusia County for preservation in April 2021.
The Planning Board meeting will start at 6 p.m. at the City Commission Chambers at 22 S. Beach St. Written correspondence for inclusion in the meeting’s agenda packet must be emailed by 5 p.m. April 1 to [email protected]
MetroNet, an independently-owned fiber optic company headquartered in Indiana, announced on Monday, March 28, that it will soon bring fiber optic internet service directly to homes and businesses in Ormond Beach, Holly Hill and Daytona Beach.
MetroNet will fully fund the project through a private multimillion-dollar investment, the press release stated.
The two-year construction process will begin this summer, and the first customers will be able to receive the service before the end of 2022. Fiber optic networks give residents access to faster internet, with upload and download gigabit speeds, or 1,000 megabits per second.
In December 2021, MetroNet announced a $50 million investment to bring its services to Palm Coast.
Residents and businesses interested may visit MetronetInc.com/iwantfiber
Residents will be notified by mail of construction activity in their neighborhood 30 days before MetroNet begins the project.
