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Deltona planning board recommends code overhaul to streamline permit reviews, shifts some review thresholds
Summary
The Deltona Planning & Zoning Board voted 7-0 to recommend City Commission approval of Ordinance 4-25, which revises administrative chapters of the Land Development Code to clarify review authorities, create a minor conditional-use process and require community meetings for many zoning applications.
The Deltona Planning & Zoning Board voted 7-0 on Monday to recommend that the City Commission approve Ordinance 4-25, a package of amendments to the city’s Land Development Code that reorganizes permit procedures and moves several review authorities into a single administrative chapter.
The ordinance, presented by Alexis Crespo of consultant firm RVI, consolidates scattered application procedures into chapter 74, clarifies which board or staff position reviews or approves each permit type, and adds procedural rules intended to reduce staff time spent guiding applicants through review steps.
Crespo told the board the package is chiefly procedural. “The amendment before you this evening is some amendments to your Land Development Code,” she said, and described the work as an effort to make the code “more user friendly” by listing each application type and its review authority in one place.
Board members pressed staff on several substantive points during the presentation and discussion. Key…
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