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Volusia Council trims special-exception review, directs staff to return revised ordinance
Summary
After a lengthy public and council debate, Volusia County Council voted to move many special-exception land uses from county-council level review to the Planning and Land Development Regulation Commission (PLDRC) or staff-level conditional review and asked staff to return a revised ordinance for final reading on Sept. 4.
Volusia County Council moved on Aug. 15 to narrow the set of land-use cases that must come to the full council and instead send many categories to the Planning and Land Development Regulation Commission (PLDRC) or to staff for conditional review.
The council’s measure is a wide-ranging rewrite of chapter 72 special-exception procedures. Staff said the change is intended to speed up approvals for routine applications and reduce duplicative hearings; opponents warned it removes an important public check on uses that neighbors find disruptive.
The discussion lasted more than three hours. Planning staff presented a spreadsheet of some 137 special-exception uses and a proposal to: (a) approve 62…
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