Planning board recommends comp‑plan change and rezoning for 276‑acre "Florida Logistics Center," with caps on trips and intensity

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…