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Apr 16, 2021 6:04 PM Port Orange, FL - After the news broke that a Volusia County council member will not seek reelection, one Port Orange city commissioner announced that he s looking to run for her spot. Chase Tramont, who currently represents District 2 of Port Orange, announced on the Marc Bernier Show Friday afternoon (April 16th) that he is looking to run for the District 2 Volusia County councilmember spot. This comes after the current District 2 councilmember, Billie Wheeler, announced that she will not seek reelection come 2022. Marc Bernier Show · 041621 Tramont A We were certainly looking at this possibility in 2024 when she was going to be termed out, said Tramont. When she brought this up in conversation it certainly got our wheels spinning a bit. Wheeler has been the District 2 representative for Volusia County since 2017. Before that, Wheeler served on the Daytona Beach Shores City Council. In 2020, Wheeler beat out Danny Fuqua during the gene
Thanks to a grant from the St. Johns River Water Management District, the City of Oak Hill is closer converting a large number of residents septic systems city sewer.
The effort should lead to a cleaner Indian River Lagoon system. But some residents are still concerned that the project will individually cost them more than they can afford.
Gov. Ron DeSantis appropriated $25 million to the water management district for the Indian River Lagoon Water Quality Grant for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. That in turn made smaller grants for septic to sewage projects available, enabling the water district to award the $2.5 million grant to Oak Hill.
Volusia County officials think so.
The council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to have county officials reach out to Deltona about potentially returning to the drawing board for the JPA, also known as the Osteen Local Plan.
The Osteen JPA is an area located in southwest Volusia County along the SR 415 corridor between Lemon Bluff Road and Acorn Lake Road and includes 3,990 acres, according to county documents. The plan was a result of extensive intergovernmental coordination between the City of Deltona, County of Volusia and community stakeholders.
The JPA was supposed to facilitate certain level of land use intensity with a mixture of land use types and urban for areas along S.R. 415, according to Deltona staff reports. The Mixed Use Village Center and Osteen Commercial Village promote a mix of land use types such as commercial, institutional activities, medium density residential, including multi-family, single-family, and live/work options.