- February 5, 2025
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The city of Ormond Beach celebrated the opening of the new Doug Thomas Way extension on Monday, Jan. 27.
The roadway connects Hull Road to the Ormond Beach Sports Complex with a 2,150 extension, which allows people to enter the park without without traveling through the industrial properties that line Hull Road, according to a city staff report from January 2024. The road was conceptualized in the 2005 Parks and Recreation Master Plan Study, and is named after longtime Ormond Beach Leisure Services Advisory Board member Doug Thomas.
At the City Commission meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4, City Commissioner Harold Briley said the dedication of the road was well deserved for Thomas.
"Doug has been a champion of recreation in Ormond Beach for many, many years and we appreciate all of your contributions," Briley said.
City Commissioner Lori Tolland, who was not able to attend the ribbon-cutting, said her heart was with the commission as they celebrated her "absolute favorite resident and his very generous community-minded ways."
"Doug has worked a lifetime, a very long lifetime, promoting recreation and our youth, and I'm sincerely thankful for him," Tolland said.
She and Thomas previously served on the city's Planning Board together, as well as on the Leisure Services Advisory Board, of which Thomas has been a member since 1994. He's been a member of the city's Planning Board since 2004.
The road cost the city over $900,000, with funding set aside in the 2021-2022 Capital Improvement Plan.
