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Edgewater outlines large-scale growth and heavy infrastructure costs as comp-plan kickoff begins
Summary
At a public kickoff, Ryan Solstice, Edgewater's Development Services Director, detailed dozens of entitled and proposed housing and industrial projects that together total thousands of units and identified major infrastructure costs including a roughly $100 million wastewater expansion and a $42 million Public Works project.
Ryan Solstice, the City of Edgewater's Development Services Director and Economic Development Director, told a public audience at the comprehensive-plan kickoff that the city faces substantial near-term growth and significant infrastructure obligations.
Solstice said Edgewater has roughly 11,429 entitled housing units slated to be built and that several large projects including Deering Park Center and Deering Park North could add as many as 8,600 units across phases. Certificates of occupancy rose from 333 to 378 year over year, he said, and taxable value increased by about $8,000,000 overall and $1,500,000 for commercial parcels.
Why it matters: the city will need new or expanded infrastructure and funding to serve the projected growth. Solstice listed several cost estimates: a stormwater master plan at $1,200,000 (partly grant-funded by Volusia County), a wastewater-treatment-plant expansion estimated at roughly $100,000,000 (the city anticipates paying about $32,000,000 after impact and connection fees), and a two-phase Public Works building with Phase 1 at $22,000,000 and a total project estimate of about $42,000,000.
Among major projects cited were an 83-acre industrial Parktown development proposing about 1,000,000 square feet of Class A warehouse space; River Oaks (Jones Fish Camp Road) with about 196 multifamily units and a proposed 380-room hotel, marina and related amenities; and smaller plats such as Smyrna Creek Preserve (78 townhomes) ready for final plat. Solstice said some projects now in review include Mango Tree Apartments (a brownfield redevelopment) and Edgewater Village BPUD, which proposes 272 independent-living units, 45 build-to-rent villas and a 169-bed assisted-living facility north of State Road 442.
Solstice also described mitigation and service expansions that will accompany development: developers are expected to fund a divergent-diamond interchange at State Road 442 per Deering Park's Traffic Impact Analysis, and multiple traffic signals are planned at Volco Road/US 1, Clinton Cemetery Road/Jones Fish Camp/US 1 and other intersections if projects proceed.
On entitlements and moratoria, Solstice said many of the projects were approved or vested before the city's moratorium on new submissions; once a project is entitled and bound by a PUD agreement, the city must generally adhere to that agreement unless state or federal law supersedes it. He encouraged public participation at upcoming workshops so residents can help shape future land-use designations and changes to the land-development code.
The city will post presentation materials online and has scheduled two community workshop sessions for additional public input.
