- December 16, 2025
The Port Orange city council has approved a special exception to change the use of a local piece of property in order to allow for the operation of a mini warehouse and motor vehicle and boat storage facility.
The council voted 4-1, with Mayor Don Burnette voting against, during the Tuesday, Sept. 19 city council meeting.
The warehouse and storage facility, operated through Acorn Mini Storage, will be within the community commercial zoning district. The location of the 11.8 acre property is at the southwest corner of S. Williamson Boulevard and Roscoe Turner Trail.
The property has had community commercial zoning since 1994.
Council members voiced concerns about larger vehicles coming in and out of the facility as well as those vehicles that would be hauling boats.
"My problem isn't the facility itself, my problem is the traffic pattern," Councilman Chase Tramont said, adding that "it's a pain in the neck and a very big safety concern making those U-turns there and I understand that's going to be the case with anything that goes there."
The proposed development would be located approximately 1.6 miles from All Aboard Storage, a similar facility.
There are expected to be at least seven one-story self-storage buildings in addition to an enclosed outdoor storage area with approximately 100 designated storage parking spaces for vehicles, RVs and boats, according to Roger Strcula, the applicant for the Acorn Mini Storage Developer David Fahmie.
The site will also have landscape buffers, screening fencing, a stormwater pond, a parking lot and water and sewer infrastructure as required by the City’s Land Development Code. The council also voted in favor of having a 10-foot stucco wall and maintain 7 a.m to 10 p.m. business hours.
According to the city staff report, "the site will also have landscape buffers, screening fencing, a stormwater pond, a parking lot and water and sewer infrastructure."
Traffic counts in 2016 for Williamson Boulevard from Volusia County Traffic Engineering indicate there is still capacity for 14,660 vehicles per day from Williamson Boulevard to Taylor Road to Spruce Creek Bridge. Counts also show there is capacity for 24,870 vehicles per day from Airport Road to Williamson Boulevard to Pioneer Trail.
Councilman Scott Stiltner also brought up the issue of traffic and finding a solution to mitigate any congestion.
"The only alternatieves that I can see the county even discussing are being able to allow left hand turns off the property across opposing traffic lanes," Stiltner said. "I think sending the traffic to the regulated intersection that has a traffic control device will make that safer."
The applicants attorney, Joey Posey, said the county has indicated the applicant could be given the left end off of Airport Road to avoid a 180-degree turn at the intersection of Airport Road and S. Williamson Boulevard.
"The vehicles that would be making this type of turning movements or frequencies are going to be considerably less than if this was a retail development," Posey said.
