Daytona Beach Downtown Plan

As reported by Mark Lane,of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona Beach city officials have unveiled a new Downtown plan. He makes the following points:

1. the new plan doesn't dismantle City Island
2. the new plan envisions walking spaces around downtown and Riverside Park with slower speed limits and a 2-lane road
3. the new plan leaves out public-private projects that would convert public land to private use, for the most part

4. the new plan includes retail kiosks in Riverfront Park

Lane concludes, "A functioning downtown is the best of both worlds: urban pleasures with smaller-town familiarity. If the experts knew how to make one work, they would have told us how three studies ago. But, at least this time, the city has a plausible plan that doesn't start by wrecking what we already have."

If you have an opinion about the new proposal, contact your city officials.

with Your Key to the Beach,
Sherry Armstrong, Realtor
386-679-3191
www.sherryarmstrong.com
www.ormondbeachscene.com
yourkeytothebeach@gmail.com