- November 25, 2024
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The Flagler County Commission has universally approved the final step of a 76-lot development in Ormond Station.
The development, known as Gardenside, is the first phase of a 29-acre, single-family residential subdivision within the Hunter’s Ridge development. Located on Airport Road, west of the Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard roundabout and extension, the development is on 29 acres.
The commission approved the change at its Feb. 19 meeting. Commission Chair Andy Dance said the development is already under construction since the preliminary plat was previously approved.
“They're just bonding a remainder of the finished work so that they can sell their their parcels basically,” he said.
Two other developments are planned for Ormond Station as well, called Woodside and Amberwoods. These development applications were approved by the Flagler County Commission last August.
Amberwoods, on 14 acres, would add 40 single-family homes on Airport Road, just east of Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard. Woodside is on 21 acres of land on the south side of Airport Road and west of Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard. The developer would build between six to 10 single-family homes per acre for that development, according to Woodside’s site plan.
Mengel said Greenside is wrapping up its utility infrastructure. Hunter’s Ridge has an agreement with Ormond Beach about using it’s water for the development, but last October Ormond Beach threatened to shut off water utilities when it said Hunter’s Ridge violated agreements with the city. The city has since filed lawsuits against the developer and Flagler County.
Despite the ongoing legal action between Ormond Beach, the Hunter’s Ridge developer and Flagler County, it is continuing smoothly.
“So this is, best we know, still moving forward still under that vested agreement,” Mengel said.
The commission also approved an application to expand Ormond Station’s proposed Community Development District. A CDD is a special-purpose government that functions as a way for developers to finance the infrastructure costs of a large residential community.
The expansion adds the Greenside development to the current Ormond Station CDD boundaries, located on the northeast side of the Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard roundabout.
Mengel said the CDD’s boundaries first only included the 38-acre Groveside, which was the first development in the Hunter’s Ridge development. When phase two of Greenside comes to the County Commission for approval, he said, the board will also see another CDD expansion request.
The land between the two developments is not part of the CDD, but land in the CDD does not have to be contiguous, Mengel said.
