Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Zoning Use Chart topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Deltona P&Z backs zoning map and use-table updates, narrows drive‑thru allowances
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board recommended the City Commission approve Ordinance 13-20 24, revising Chapter 110 zoning to reorganize land uses, add an entertainment use category, allow certain agricultural uses in large residential estate lots and require conditional-use review for some drive‑thru and auto‑oriented businesses.
The Deltona Planning & Zoning Board voted 7-0 to recommend that the City Commission approve Ordinance 13-20 24, a broad update to Chapter 110 (Zoning) that reorganizes allowed uses, standardizes use charts and narrows where certain drive‑thru or auto‑oriented businesses can operate.
City planning staff presented the ordinance as a consolidation and modernization of use categories. The staff summary said the rewrite will present a single, color-coded use chart showing whether a use is permitted, requires a conditional use, or is not allowed in each zoning district.
Major elements described by staff (Jordan) included:
- Commercial and industrial uses: The rewrite expands and clarifies permitted and conditional commercial uses across C1, C2 and C3 and consolidates entertainment-related uses (for example, arcades, bowling alleys and escape rooms) into a single entertainment category.
- Drive‑thru and auto‑oriented uses: Drive‑thru restaurants and some car washes will require conditional-use approval in certain districts; staff explained the change is intended to discourage auto-oriented development in areas meant to be more pedestrian friendly.
- Agricultural and government uses: Agricultural uses will be permitted in RE1 and RE5 residential-estate categories (larger lots), and government-type uses such as libraries and fire stations are explicitly handled in the chart.
Board members sought clarifications on several points, including whether parking and retention ponds are treated as standalone conditional uses or only as part of a permitted principal use, how entertainment uses are distributed across industrial and commercial districts, and an apparent coding error in the retail-sales/outdoor-display cell of the chart. The board also asked staff to swap the car-wash allowances so C1 would be permissive and C2/C3 conditional, a correction staff agreed to include in the recommendation.
Several board members asked why nightclubs would be permitted by right in C1 and C2 while drive‑thru restaurants would be conditional; staff replied that permitting entertainment uses was intended to signal the city’s interest in attracting those businesses and that other code sections (for example, noise and operational standards) remain in force.
A motion to recommend City Commission approval of Ordinance 13-20 24 was made, amended to include the car-wash correction and a scrivener fix for a missing cell color; the motion carried 7-0.
Why it matters: The changes reorganize the city’s zoning use matrix, affecting what businesses may operate in each district and where some uses will require additional conditional-use review. The adjustments are aimed at encouraging pedestrian-oriented entertainment uses in commercial corridors while placing more controls on drive-thru and other auto-oriented development.
Next steps: The P&Z board’s recommendation and the agreed corrections will be forwarded to the City Commission for its public hearing and final decision.
