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Residents and mayor spar over moratorium, land-development codes and impact fees
Summary
At a Deltona town-hall meeting residents and the mayor debated a development moratorium, land-development-code updates, annexation effects and timing for an impact-fee study. The mayor said code updates and a $2 million grant for road elevation are in progress; residents urged changes to reduce flooding and protect trees.
Multiple residents used a mayoral town-hall meeting to push for clearer city rules on development, to question the scope of a moratorium on new development and to press for land-development-code updates that they say would reduce flooding and preserve trees.
One long public comment criticized the moratorium as “setting our city up for so much failure,” saying that the city should use existing votes to deny developments it opposes rather than pursue a broad moratorium that could risk state funding. That speaker also said the city has $3,000,000 pending to come to Deltona and said a moratorium could endanger…
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