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Board rejects Floresta Gardens planned development after traffic, public‑benefit debate
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners, hearing a de novo appeal of the Planning & Zoning Commission denial, declined to approve K. Hovnanian’s Floresta Gardens planned development zoning request, 2–3, after extended discussion about traffic, open space calculations and the public benefits offered by the project.
The Indian River County Board of County Commissioners voted 2–3 on July 1, 2025, to deny a requested planned development (PD) rezoning and concurrent preliminary plan for the Floresta Gardens subdivision proposed by K. Hovnanian Southeast Florida Division LLC. The motion to approve staff’s recommendation — with a condition to increase perimeter setbacks on the larger perimeter lots to 10 feet — failed.
The dispute centered on whether the project’s off‑site and on‑site improvements constituted sufficient public benefit to justify reductions in lot width and setbacks the PD requested. The project would have created 44 single‑family lots on roughly 18 acres with an overall density of about 2.43 units per acre and included widening and resurfacing sections of Eighth Street, new curbing and a mid‑block crossing near Glendale Elementary School, a conservation buffer along the property edge, and…
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