Planning board recommends forwarding revised self‑storage rules to commission

The Cocoa Beach Planning Board voted to recommend that the City Commission consider a revision to the city’s Land Development Code (Section 2.62) to allow indoor self‑storage to seek approval as a special exception in the Town Center Redevelopment District and to add new development standards that would apply citywide to future self‑storage facilities.

City Development Services Director Dave Dickey told the board the draft change would make a special‑exception path available in Town Center but that staff was proposing the new development standards — setbacks, building face restrictions near residences, and restrictions on in‑unit power outlets — apply wherever new self‑storage is permitted across the city. “As proposed … the special exception would be an allowable request in the Town Center Redevelopment District,” Dickey said. “The other ask is…