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BIKE INSIDE ORMOND BEACH DAYTONA BEACH HOLLY HILL WEEK 2013 Annual rally roars into area this weekend Ormond Beach DentalPage B1 Group Vol. 8, No. 7 Your Local News and Information Source • www.HometownNewsOL.com Friday, March 8, 2013 Need Community County Council tightening Dentures? notes Free Consultations & Second Opinions Crowns rules for development areas $675 • Denture County Council plans Full Denture Reline $175 $495 tourism study By Patrick McCallister tax dollars in cities to spur property and eco- For Hometown News nomic development for eliminating blight. In Paul Szott, D.M.D. workshop March 8 a CRA, county taxes paid on property values Kerri Graham D.M.D. higher than what they were the base year — See ad in this section for more information The Volusia County Five cities are lining up to start new Commu- when the area was established — go to the Council will host a follow- nity Redevelopment Areas, but the Volusia city to spend only in that district for econom- 802 Sterthaus 386-944-5002Drive, Suite A • Ormond Beach, FL ic development and blight elimination. (Across the Street from the imploded Florida Hospital) up workshop to discuss the County Council is increasingly questioning their 772294 preliminary report of the value. The word blight, however, is increasingly tourism marketing study At its Thursday, Feb. 28, meeting, the council becoming a sticking point. from 2 to 5 p.m. in ballroom directed staff to draft a new playbook for incom- “You can define anything as blighted under Beach, A of the Ocean Center, 101 ing CRAs to use, and to examine how far the the state’s definition,” Morgan Gilreath, property Port Orange, and South N. Atlantic Ave., Daytona county could apply it to existing ones. appraiser, told the council at the meeting. Daytona. Cities are keeping about $4.7 million Beach. “We’ve got to look at what we’re going to be The five cities wanting new CRAs are Deltona, county tax dollars a year through them. Some of Dan Fenton of the Strate- doing with CRAs and tighten up the rules a little Orange City, Ormond Beach, New Smyrna the CRAs date back to 1991. So far, they’ve gic Advisory Group, which bit,” Councilman Pat Patterson, DeLand, said in Beach and Edgewater. There are 15 existing sapped about $80 million from the county’s cof- prepared the report, will be an interview after the meeting. CRAs in Volusia in Daytona Beach, Daytona the facilitator. Beach Shores, DeLand, Holly Hill, New Smyrna See CRA, A2 Public participation is CRAs are special zones that keep some county welcomed. For more infor- mation, call the county manager’s office at (386) 736-5920. Council stops See NOTES, A3 Eye on the ball driving next to new beach park By Patrick McCallister own use,” he said. For Hometown News However, a couple others told the council they liked Ormond Beach’s new the plan. Andy Romano Park is four “It makes sense, it’s a rea- acres of beachfront family sonable proposal,” Shannon fun to some and now 600- McLeish, Ormond Beach, JAMES SKOW, PA Attorney feet of sandspurs to others. said. At its last regular meeting, Councilman Pat Patter- Bankruptcy the Volusia County Council son, DeLand, said he approved a request from backed the revocable prohi- and Ormond to close 600 feet of bition because of his experi- Foreclosure beach driving in front of the ence taking small children park. The vote was 4-3. to the beach in the 1980s. Phone: 386-310-4894 Before the vote, the council He said beach traffic is got an earful from about 10 enough to send a parent opponents. into paranoia. Daytona Beach resident “I remember the terror I Don Kane said the city’s had taking my two kids to Randy Barber/staff photographer request affected all Volu- the beach,” he said. “I didn’t Wyatt Kent, 6, the son of Ormond Beach City Commissioner Troy Kent, prepares to sians. enjoy my time at all.” “This appears to me that The park at 839 S. Atlantic hit the first ball during the Doug Wigley T-Ball Fields dedication ceremony at Ormond Beach is trying to See DRIVING, A2 045468 Ormond Beach Sports Complex, Friday, March 1. privatize the beach for its 139 Executive Circle Construction underway on Suite 103 Daytona Beach, FL Tymber Creek Road in Ormond 32114 By Richard Mundy ably 40 people working on moving at a high rate of For Hometown News this project,” Mr. Chapman speed, “… people driving Fax: 386-310-4895 said. by at 60 miles per hour.” www.Skowlaw.com Work on widening Tym- Area residents will have He said his crew starts at ber Creek Road, from to put up with some incon- 7 a.m. when traffic is heavi- [email protected] Granada Boulevard to venience, he said. “Most of est along with 1:30 to 2:30 Peruvian Lane, began it will be done during the in the afternoon. recently with construction day.” “We’re going to try not to crews clearing and re-grad- There are water pipes to inconvenience anybody,” LAND LINES A3 ing portions of the high- be relocated and certain he said. “It will be a very way. areas that need standing nice road when I get done Don Chapman of Masci water redirected, Mr. with it.” Photo by Richard Mundy GASSED Construction, the project Chapman said. “Most of Leon Flancher, who has Masci Construction crews clear land along Tymber Creek contractor, said the project that kind of work would be lived in the area since 1986, Road in Ormond Beach to accommodate a four-lane should take “a little over a done at night.” is looking forward to the divided highway from Granada Boulevard to Peruvian year” to be completed. “I’m The traffic is a problem, Americans Lane. imperiled going to end up with prob- he said, as a car sped by See TYMBER A2 by fossil fuel prices What makes a tree historic? By Richard Mundy mated to be 3,500 years And what actually makes For Hometown News old. An historic tree for a tree historic? Above are sure. some examples of historic DAYLIGHT-SAVING The city of Daytona At the northern end of trees and what made them TIME BEGINS Beach was founded in 1876 Ormond Beach, along Old historic. amid a forest of live oak Dixie Highway, is Bulow According to Jeff Kreuger, Don’t trees, according to Guy Creek State Park, home to a photographer, naturalist forget to Meilleur of The Australian the Fairchild Oak, one of and creator of the Historic turn the Arbor Age. Most of those the largest live oak trees in Tree Project, “What makes clock forward trees were felled in the the southern U.S. Original- a tree historic is … a sub- at 2 a.m. process of creating the city. ly thought to be more than jective judgment. Every Sunday, March 10. Some still survive and are 2,000 years old, it since has tree has its own history of considered historic trees. been re-evaluated to be time and events, seasons Photo by Richard Mundy In January 2012, about 50 400-450 years old. Still, it is and storms.” He equates INDEX This copse of trees will be gone soon, including the big miles southeast of Ormond quite an historic tree. historic trees to be those historic tree in the center. The owner of the property Beach, just below Sanford, But how many historic that have “witnessed Business A7 Out & About B1 one of the world’s oldest trees does an area need? Is important events (or fig- Classified B9 Police Report A5 along Coolidge Avenue wants to build an office/ware- cypress trees caught fire one enough; is 10 too Crossword B8 Sports B7 Horoscopes B1 Viewpoint A6 house building and the trees will have to go. and burned. It was esti- many? 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By 2036, that’s expected bought from the city for wants new CRAs limited to may dislike the new rules, to grow to about $144 mil- $25,000, about $75,000 less 10 years with a chance at but will still apply for CRAs. FREE FINANCING 12 MONTHS than its appraised value. extending it to 20, and www.mcalisterflooring.com lion. “If the CRA is successful, “When you look at the Holly Hill Mayor, Roy greater control over bonds they will get dollars,” she expenditures, you say, ‘What Johnson defended his city’s and expenditures. Currently said. 043784 is going on?’” Councilman use of CRA funds for Hogs CRAs can exist for 30 years.