Editor, The Beacon:
With the expansion of both residential and commercial development in West Volusia, one cannot avoid noticing the enormous expansion of mini-warehouses and self-storage facilities that now dot every major thoroughfare in the community.
To the shock and dismay of the Lake Winnemissett neighborhood, yet another mini-warehouse is proposed.
The developer wants to construct the largest mini-warehouse in the area, with more than 75,000 square feet of storage, in our residential neighborhood with a scenic-drive designation.
While the developer is claiming this project as a “state-of-the-art architectural masterpiece,” in reality, it is a two-story, steel-and-concrete eyesore.
The last thing our community needs is another self-storage facility.
When will we stop destroying established residential neighborhoods? When will the affordable housing needs be addressed? When will the environmental impacts of paving over our lands be understood and stopped?
The County Council will have the opportunity to “Just Say No” on Tuesday, Dec. 6, when the proposal comes before them for a land-use change.
The county Planning Commission has voted to deny approval of the project, as they clearly understood that commercial/industrial development is inconsistent with residential homes.
How many is too many? This project is definitely one too many!
Jeanne Savoie
DeLand
— Savoie has been a Lake Winnemissett resident for the past 24 years.
This is what happens when you allow thousands of homes to be built in the name of progress. With more homes and more people comes the need for more commercial services and the closer you put those services to all of those homes and people the less traffic you will have on the roads. I have been watching and feeling my quality of life here deteriorate for decades as thousands of people have flocked here and now many of those newcomers and even some developers are squawking about this low impact storage facility. Housing developments generate more traffic than storage facilities. Enjoy your fight folks….Only if people cared more at election time. As a community, you just voted in a very progrowth County Council and very progrowth DeLand Commission. It is also funny how people are more horrified over a storage facility that may be built on a few acres along a State Highway than they were about the hundreds of homes and a multitude of other large commercial facilities being built nearby on hundreds of acres.