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Consultant outlines statutory updates and map revisions in Daytona Beach comprehensive plan review
Summary
Kimley‑Horn consultant Blair Knighting summarized required statutory updates, a combined conservation/coastal element, a 2045 planning horizon, new maps and procedural next steps for the city’s comprehensive plan evaluation and appraisal report.
Daytona Beach — The Daytona Beach City Commission received an overview Feb. 5 of a contracted evaluation and appraisal report that updates the city’s comprehensive plan to meet state requirements and reflect local changes.
Blair Knighting of Kimley‑Horn and Associates told the commission the firm reviewed the plan for statutory compliance since 2016, updated required maps, and consolidated the conservation and coastal management elements into a single element to reduce redundancy.
“Essentially, we were hired in March of 2024 ... to look at your comprehensive plan from a statutory compliance [standpoint],” Knighting said. She told the commission the update includes a planning timeframe extended to 2045, additions required by recent state law for resiliency facilities and floating solar, and a directive in the infrastructure element to investigate central sewer feasibility within 10 years for developments of 50 or more lots currently on septic.
Why it matters: The comprehensive plan is the city’s guiding document for long‑term growth, land use and capital improvements. State statute requires periodic review and updates; noncompliant language can delay permitting or state review of land‑use amendments.
Key changes flagged in the presentation: the planning horizon updated to 2045; consolidation of the conservation and coastal elements; added language reflecting the Live Local affordable‑housing definitions required by state law; new required maps such as a coastal high‑hazard area map and updated roadway functional classification and TPO project maps; and a school‑proportionate‑share clarification requiring contributions be set aside until the school board includes the improvement in its five‑year plan.
Process and timeline: Knighting said the consultant team plans to transmit the draft to the planning board on March 27 and return the transmittal to the commission in May, with adoption anticipated in July after the state review. Dennis Frozak, the city’s planning director, agreed the changes were largely “clean‑up” and implementation would rely on coordination between planning, utilities and the school district.
Questions raised: Commissioner Paris and others asked about removing maps such as hospital locations; Knighting and Frozak said such maps can become quickly out of date, and the consultant recommended noting facilities on the future land‑use map rather than keeping a separate hospital map, but staff said they could retain a hospital map if the commission prefers.
Ending: Staff and Kimley‑Horn presented the E/A report as a statutory compliance step and offered to return with the transmittal language; the planning‑board hearing was scheduled for March 27, 2025, with subsequent commission transmittal and anticipated adoption after state review.
