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Planning board recommends Ordinance 25-01 to extend Daytona Beach Shores comprehensive plan to 2045
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend Ordinance 25-01, a statutorily required evaluation-and-appraisal-based comprehensive plan amendment that extends the planning horizon to 2045 and makes targeted updates to coastal management, capital improvements and public facilities chapters.
The Daytona Beach Shores Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend approval of Ordinance 25-01, an evaluation-and-appraisal-based comprehensive plan amendment that would extend the city’s planning horizon to 2045 and make targeted updates required under Florida law.
Stuart, the city’s service director, told the board the state requires an evaluation and appraisal of local comprehensive plans every seven years and staff found the city’s plan needs updates to meet current statutory and technical requirements. “Staff is recommending that we extend the planning horizon to 2045,” Stuart said, and described a set of housekeeping changes and several substantive updates across elements of the plan.
Key proposed changes include adding off-beach parking as an allowed use in the public/quasi-public future land use category; striking a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) commitment to provide five off-beach parking spaces (the CRA is no longer active) and instead committing to maintain the city’s existing beach parking inventory of about 200 spaces; adding language to promote the introduction of an engineered beach (the amendment does not commit the city to build one); and updating level-of-service standards for sanitary sewer, solid waste and potable water to match standards used by the City of Port Orange.
Stuart also explained a technical change to boat-slip entitlements: the amendment would allow increases in boat slips tied to annexation and the manatee-protection planning process, so new waterfront annexations would carry corresponding slip entitlements into the city’s inventory rather than leaving the city fixed at a prior allotment.
Staff presented population and land-use data from the required data-inventory-and-analysis report. Using state projections, staff estimated the city’s permanent residential population will grow by roughly 900 residents by 2045 and that the municipality currently has an apparent surplus of about 1,500 dwelling units on paper; staff said that surplus does not require major map changes but does require statutory updates. The ordinance also updates the five‑year capital improvements plan and the Volusia County School District five‑year work program tables in the capital improvements element.
Board members asked about flooding and stormwater given recent regional concerns. Stuart said Daytona Beach Shores has generally higher percolation rates than some nearby jurisdictions and that the city’s stormwater regulations are consistent with Florida statutes and standard engineering practice; he noted the larger operational challenge is ongoing maintenance of stormwater infrastructure and that localized flooding near the river can be influenced by tidal effects and blocked outlets.
A motion to recommend approval of Ordinance 25-01 as presented passed on roll call. The board’s recommendation will be transmitted to the City Commission for the state-coordinated review process.
