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Commission approves annexation, land-use change and PD amendments for DeLand Tech Park
Summary
The DeLand City Commission approved second readings and adoption of three ordinances to annex roughly 0.99 acres into the city, change that parcel's future land use to Commerce and amend the DeLand Tech Park planned development to add parcels and revise development standards.
The DeLand City Commission on second reading approved three related ordinances to fold a roughly 0.987-acre parcel into the city, change its comprehensive-plan designation to Commerce and amend the DeLand Tech Park planned development agreement to add parcels and revise development requirements.
The measures, which returned to the commission after initial votes on Aug. 19, 2024, passed on second reading with an identical roll-call of yes votes from Commissioner Maria Paiva, Commissioner Dan Reed, Commissioner Kevin Reed and Vice Mayor Jessica Davis. The city attorney read each ordinance aloud before staff and the applicant presented details and answered commissioners' questions.
City senior planner Kendall Storey told the commission the annexation parcel is currently in unincorporated Volusia County and is mostly wooded; if annexed the applicant intends to incorporate the property into the existing DeLand Tech Park planned development. The planning board recommended approval on July 17, and staff's feasibility analysis found public services are available to the parcel, Storey said.
Storey also presented the related future land-use amendment, stating the change from Volusia County's urban low-intensity designation to the city's Commerce designation is consistent with surrounding uses and would not degrade city facility levels of service. On the planned-development amendment, staff described changes requested since the first reading: adding two parcels totaling about 3.73 acres into the PD; allowing off-site tree-protection areas to be dedicated to the city via easement; modifying internal landscape-buffer and building-setback rules between internal parcels; and permitting exposed insulated metal panels when used for cold or refrigerated storage facilities.
Mark Watts, an attorney representing the applicant, told the commission the primary trigger for the amendment was a successful land swap that moved two formerly county-owned outparcels into the PD footprint so the development would not have to work around pockets of county ownership. Watts also updated the commission on coordination among the county, the City of Orange City, FDOT and property owners (including AdventHealth) on a planned signal at the intersection of State Road 472 and the new Kirk Drive connector; he said a signal there would allow truck traffic better access to 472 and the interstate, which the applicant and staff view as important for the site's industrial operations.
No members of the public had speaker cards on the items. Commissioners moved and seconded the ordinances in separate roll calls; each vote was recorded as unanimous among the four commissioners present.
The ordinances finalize technical and plan changes intended to clear title and design complications in the Deland Tech Park PD and to permit specific industrial building materials and tree-protection options that the applicant said are needed to accommodate cold-storage or refrigerated facilities and to consolidate development parcels.
