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Deltona commission tables Aloha Estates final plat for 536-apartment project pending completion agreement
Summary
The City Commission voted 4–3 to defer acceptance of the Aloha Estates final plat, which would allow ingress/egress across a commercially zoned parcel to a 536-unit multifamily project, until an agreement is executed tying the plat to completion of an existing stalled project.
The Deltona City Commission on the motion carried 4–3 on Tuesday deferred action on a final plat that would allow access for a proposed 536-unit apartment development from a commercially zoned parcel.
Planning staff sought acceptance of Resolution 2025-26, the Aloha Estates final plat, saying the final plat would “facilitate a means of ingress and egress” across a C-2 parcel to the multi-family property at 1000 Aloha Estates Road. Jordan Smith, director of planning, told the commission the plat had been reviewed and is “consistent with Florida Statutes chapter 177 and Land Development Code section 100 and six-thirty 1.”
The project would develop about 46.7 acres for what the staff report described as 536 apartments. Commissioners pressed staff and the applicant about the lot configuration and the sequencing of work. Commissioner Avielle Vasquez asked why a final plat was being approved when “this particular property has nothing on it but trees,” and Smith explained a final plat can establish “the legal meets and bounds of a parcel” and that developers sometimes record plats before construction begins.
Public commenters and several commissioners raised concerns about stormwater, traffic and completing an earlier project the developer has in Deltona. Residents said the area floods and that the scale of development would strain roads and schools. One resident urged the commission to prefer parks or other uses to dense apartments.
Commissioner discussion shifted when an alternate motion was made to defer the plat “until such time as there is an agreement negotiated to finish the Enrico Ridge project,” defined in the motion as a tri-party agreement among the developer, an eventual purchaser and the city or another binding instrument ensuring completion. The commission clarified that any performance bonds required by the development order would still be required within seven days.
When put to a roll-call vote the motion to defer passed 4–3 (Mayor Villa, Commissioner Colwell, Commissioner Howington and Commissioner Santiago voted yes; Vice Mayor Herriot, Commissioner Avielle Vasquez and Commissioner Lowley voted no). The staff recommendation to accept the plat was therefore not approved and the item will return to a future meeting with the requested agreement and additional site-development details, including the location of the 15 acres the applicant said would be left for drainage.
The commission did not adopt entitlements or rezone under this action; staff repeatedly emphasized the vote concerned the plat layout and access, not final approval of building permits or unit counts.
The applicant and staff were asked to return with the requested tri-party agreement or equivalent, draft site-plan materials and the performance-bond confirmation referenced during the hearing.
