The Daytona Beach Planning Board voted on June 26 to recommend a large‑scale comprehensive plan amendment and forward a concurrent plan development general rezoning for the 276.5‑acre Florida Logistics Center, proposed by FLP 40 LLC. The board approved the comp‑plan item with applicant and staff revisions by a 5–1 vote and later forwarded the PDG rezoning unanimously.

City planner Emilio O’Brien reviewed the proposed changes to Neighborhood R and the Future Land Use Map. The applicant proposes to convert a mix of interchange commercial, general industry, residential and office designations to a single mixed‑use category and to add a new policy (Issue G) that would cap nonresidential development at 6,000,000 square feet, limit retail to 100,000 square feet, cap residential density to 1,500 units and cap external PM peak‑hour vehicle trips at 3,000. O’Brien summarized the proposed cap noting the projected reductions: "the applicant is proposing... overall development within the site shall not exceed the generation of 3,000 external PM peak hour vehicle trips."

Applicant representative Jessica Gallo told the board the changes were intended to channel growth into a coordinated industrial‑oriented mixed‑use plan and reduce theoretical trip and utility impacts compared with existing entitlements. Gallo said the proposal reduces theoretical trip generation by more than 90 percent compared with some existing future‑land‑use entitlements and noted coordination with Volusia County on Williamson Boulevard widening and stormwater designs. She explained the project will work with county engineering to provide joint stormwater capacity and said the team plans to preserve roughly 15 acres of wetlands and to protect an active bald eagle nest by locating it on an island inside a stormwater pond; where nests are abandoned the team will coordinate with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

School capacity was a prominent issue. Volusia County School District staff did not issue a standard finding of adequate capacity and asked the applicant to participate in a tri‑party School Capacity Enhancement Agreement (CEA). That agreement, already negotiated in draft, ties capacity‑enhancement payments to the number of approved dwellings and requires payment upon issuance of development orders; the CEA does not reserve school capacity and leaves specific capacity expansion actions to the school board and city commission.

An adjacent property owner’s representative, attorney Corey Brown, raised safety and design concerns about a proposed north‑south connector roadway and asked that references to specific nearby developments be generalized in the comp‑plan text; Brown told the board that, with the revisions worked out with the applicant, "we don't have any objections to this project. We think it looks like a good project for the city and like to move forward." Staff asked that the policy retain the north‑south connector requirement; applicant and staff agreed to edit language to remove a developer‑specific name from the comp‑plan policy while keeping standards for internal connectivity.

O’Brien and staff concluded the amendment would not cause urban sprawl, would reduce theoretical water/wastewater and traffic impacts compared to current entitlements and that the city has capacity to serve the projected demands under the proposed caps. The item now moves to City Commission for consideration; the comp‑plan amendment requires review by the Florida Department of Commerce and the Volusia Growth Management Commission before second reading.