More on Tomoka Oaks: 'We're going the wrong way here!'
Editor's note: Developers are seeking city approval to build a new 272-home gated community on a former 18-hole golf course in the heart of an older non-gated community called Tomoka Oaks off Nova Road.
We're going the wrong way here! After the Ormond Beach Planning Board and city commissioners, both voted no to an earlier developer plan with 272 houses, the developers are seeking a zoning change for the golf course to build 317 houses.
Come to the public meeting for the Tomoka Reserve project on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, Planning Board meeting. The location is Tomoka Christian Church, 1450 Hand Ave., Ormond Beach. It starts at 6 p.m.
Our traffic, property values, storm flooding, sewage processing, school and hospital capacity will all be adversely affected by all these new houses.
The developers, Sheldon Rubin, Ray Barshay, and Carl Velie, should sell the old golf course to the city and we can have a public golf course, park, or other open space. Instead of more houses.
We moved here to avoid living in Orlando. Now the developers are bringing Orlando to us. Just to benefit a few they are making life more miserable for many.
Save beautiful Ormond Beach!
Tom Fitzgibbon and Denise Corley
Tomoka Oaks, Ormond Beach
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Writer argues against Tomoka Oaks development, meeting set for Jan. 11
