Magistrate orders daily fines to continue for missing soffit at Deltona home

A special magistrate ruled that the owner of 3259 Shingler Terrace failed to repair a missing soffit on a garage and ordered the fines established in the prior order to continue until the city verifies compliance.

Why it matters: the property had been given a 30-day period to repair the soffit under an earlier order; the owner did not meet that deadline and accumulated fines of $25 per day, which the magistrate ordered to continue.

Janice Palasic, city code compliance officer, presented the Massey case and said the statutory notice requirements had been satisfied and photographs were admitted into evidence. Palasic said the prior ruling (07/23/2025) gave the owner 30 days to comply; the owner did not come into compliance within that time and had accrued $850 over 34 days at the $25-per-day rate. Photographs submitted at the hearing showed the soffit remained unrepaired.

Magistrate Kristen Ike found that the respondent failed to correct the violation by the time specified and ordered the fines to continue until an affidavit of compliance is filed by the code compliance inspector.

Next steps: the owner must complete the soffit repair and notify the code compliance inspector so the inspector can verify the work and file an affidavit of compliance; fines will stop once the affidavit is filed.