- December 4, 2025
The Ormond Beach Planning Board will review an amendment to allow Walmart to construct a building expansion to serve its grocery pickup area at its meeting on Thursday, July 10,
The expansion for the store located at 1521 W. Granada Blvd. is now estimated to span 5,101 square feet. It was previously tabled by the board back in March due to concerns about the store's esthetics, security and presence of transients. According to a staff report, this is the eighth amendment to Walmart's Planned Business Development, originally approved in 1993.
Staff noted that, since the March 13 Planning Board meeting, they have met with the Walmart project team to address the stated concerns. As a result, the greenbelt buffer fronting West Granada Boulevard has been cleaned, which included complete removal of several areas that had invasive Brazilian pepper trees.
Additional work is coming soon to further thin out the landscape buffer, the city staff report states.
Also, during this process, staff noted that a Florida Department of Transportation fence was in a state of disrepair. Debris and trash in the FDOT right-of-way has been picked up; FDOT also repaired broken sidewalks from Williamson Boulevard to I-95.
As part of the replanting plan for the greenbelt buffer, a new 6-foot vinyl coated chain link fence will be installed. The existing masonry wall will be pressure-washed and repainted.
In response to concerns about transients, city staff wrote in its report that "the intent of the cleaning and lifting of the landscape buffer is to provide view corridors for the Police Department. Walmart has engaged a private security company, and the store manager has reported to staff that the buffer area is being checked regularly."
Walmart submitted a new site plan to the city on May 27, which included revisions to the exterior architecture to upgrade aesthetics.
Walmart plans to improve the existing façade to include new branding of signage and logos, and paint the store to match a "Mediterranean Beach style."
The Planning Board will also review two other Land Development Code amendments at its upcoming meeting: One to allow private tattoo studios as a conditional use in the B-4 "Central Business" zoning district" and an administrative update that marks the renaming of the city's Leisure Services Department to the Parks and Recreation Department, first by amending its LDC under its mobile food dispensing vehicles subsection.
