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Southwest Deltona CRA moves to adopt matching grant program for businesses
Summary
The Southwest Deltona Community Redevelopment Agency introduced a motion to adopt a 50% matching grant program, funded from the CRA trust fund, to help commercial properties pay for exterior improvements; board asked staff and counsel to refine eligibility, caps and payment rules.
Members of the Southwest Deltona Community Redevelopment Agency on Tuesday introduced a motion to adopt a matching grant program intended to help commercial properties within the CRA pay for exterior improvements including facades, signs, landscaping and paving.
The proposal, carried to the board in Resolution 2025-61 and presented by CRA Director John Cox, would use the CRA trust fund to provide matching grants — generally at a 50% match — with painting grants capped at $5,000 and the board discussing a proposed annual program cap of $200,000.
John Cox, CRA director, framed the proposal as a tool allowed by state law to eliminate blight: "The Florida Statutes allows CRAs to offer these types of grants to businesses, in particular to eliminate blight and slum like conditions throughout the district." He told the board the CRA balance "today is about $2,000,000," and that the funds for the program would come from the CRA…
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