Tymber Creeks Apartments development to come before commission in March

Ormond Beach Observer

Citing a need for more time to complete revisions to the developer's plans, the Tymber Creek apartments project was issued another continuance by the Ormond Beach City Commission on Tuesday, Feb. 7.

The property owner, VCP Ormond Beach II, LLC, seeks a rezoning of a 19.62 acre property at 36 N. Tymber Creek Road, behind the existing Walgreens on West Granada Boulevard. He is also seeking an issuance of a development order to construct the 300-unit apartment complex.

A public hearing for the development was initially scheduled to be heard at the commission's meeting on

City to reduce Leisure Services Advisory Board positions

The number of Leisure Services Advisory Board positions will decrease from 13 to seven, including two alternates.

Initially, the city was looking to reduce the board only by two positions — the positions representing girl's softball and the Ormond Beach Friends of Recreation, Inc. — as discussed during a recent commission workshop. However, Mayor Bill Partington said at the Feb. 7 meeting that the board has been having difficulties lately reaching quorum, and suggested that it may be a result of its large size. Most of the city's boards are composed of about five members.

The Leisure Services Advisory Board has 13 members because, in addition to the 6 members appointed by the commissioners, the board also has representatives from various youth sport leagues. But those representatives will still be able to participate in future meetings, Partington said.

"I don't think we're excluding anybody, but we're creating a system where we can function without having to cancel meeting after meeting because we can't get an official quorum," Partington said.

The ordinance will come before the commission for approval at a future meeting.

Jan. 24. But Cobb Cole attorney Mark Watts, on behalf of the developer, asked for the item to be continued for two weeks to allow the developer to continue discussions with residents impacted by the proposed apartments.

At the Feb. 7 meeting, Watts made a similar request.

"We haven't had time to go get those revisions done and sit down with the neighborhood and go through them to make sure that it's addressed the concerns that we listed at our last meeting with that group," Watts said.

Watts said that the developer intends to resubmit updated plans with the goal to return before the City Commission at the first meeting in March.

The item will come before the commission with a recommendation to deny by the Ormond Beach Planning Board, a 5-0 vote which took place in December. The board members were concerned about the proposed increase in density; the city's land development code currently allows for 164 units to be constructed on the property.