Controversial Flagler hotel plan again in front of leaders

After a two week delay, City Commissioners are expected to take up a pair of ordinances modifying the land use and changing the zoning of property which will pave the way for development of a 112-room Hampton Inn between Florida and Flagler avenues.

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"OTHER LAND MATTERS: Elected officials will request city staff draft a letter opposing the development of 60,000 square feet of commercial space at the corner of Airport Road and Pioneer Trail, at New Smyrna Beach's border with Port Orange. The city's position is the project will generate too much traffic for the rural road."

Too much traffic for Pioneer Trail and Airport Rd. but the traffic generated by a hotel on Flagler will be OK? What about the hundreds -- if not thousands -- of residences OK'd and built at Venetian Bay, just yards from that same intersection? Wouldn't this commercial space serve them and REDUCE traffic that now travels to Port Orange for the same services?

What the h*ll? That same 60,000 square feet would employ more people that a hotel.

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...than a hotel.

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At this point, I am actually starting to believe a Pioneer Trail interchange with 95 isn't such a bad idea.

I'll bet they would have approved a thousand more housing units for that same "rural" space.