At issue is a 10-acre, environmentally sensitive site on the outskirts of New Smyrna Beach, 50 miles northeast of Downtown Orlando. Wal-Mart badly wants that location at State Road 44 and east of Interstate 95 for an estimated 250,000-sf, $32 million supercenter. About 200 new jobs are at stake.
But Volusia County commissioners, ignoring their own staff's report favoring Wal-Mart and bowing to community pressure, rejected Wal-Mart's plans at a public meeting June 20. Residents maintain the proposed development site on wetlands should be preserved and not used for commercial purposes.
The July 19 suit is expected to take at least six months to resolve, area lawyers tell GlobeSt.com. The suit wants the court to overturn the commissioners' ruling.
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