Council approves small-scale land-use change and rezoning for EYP Holdings Business Park with self-storage excluded

The Palm Bay City Council approved a small-scale amendment to the city’s future land use map and rezoned a 2.14-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Clermont Street and Franklin Drive to allow light industrial flex space, actions intended to attract manufacturing and employment-generating uses to the area.

On the council agenda as Ordinance 2025-03, city staff described the requested Future Land Use Map change from commercial to industrial; the property, identified in staff materials as “EYP Holdings Business Park,” was previously surplus county-owned land and sits adjacent to existing industrial uses including L3 Harris. Applicant representative Kelly Delmonico told council the owner intends light industrial “flex warehouse” buildings to support nearby contractors and manufacturing suppliers but did not specify a job count or exact unit count pending site design.

Council members then considered a zoning ordinance (Ordinance 2025-04) to change the property from Community Commercial (CC) to Light Industrial and Warehousing (LI). During the hearing Councilman Johnson sought and secured a council condition excluding self-storage as a by-right use in the new LI zoning; city legal staff advised the council that zoning conditions can prohibit otherwise-permitted uses and require those uses to return as conditional uses if the council prefers.

Council votes approved the small-scale comp-plan amendment and the rezoning ordinance, with the explicit exclusion of self-storage as a permitted use. Councilmembers who voted in favor said the change supports local employment and complements the existing industrial cluster along the corridor. The applicant may proceed with site planning; final site layout, parking, and stormwater depend on engineering review and permit approvals.