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Planning board recommends LDC text changes to define social services, update industrial and vending definitions
Summary
The Planning Board on Oct. 23 recommended the City Commission approve amendments to the Land Development Code to add a definition for social service uses, to expand general industrial services to explicitly include data centers, and to update the vending‑machine definition to reflect modern payment systems.
The Daytona Beach Planning Board on Oct. 23 recommended approval of text amendments to the City Land Development Code that would (1) add a definition for social service uses, (2) modify the definition of general industrial services to explicitly include data centers, and (3) update the vending‑machine definition to reflect modern unattended, multi‑payment devices.
Dennis, representing Growth Management staff, said the city’s comprehensive plan amendment in 2012 required social‑service uses to seek a semi‑public or public‑use permit but the LDC never defined the term. Staff proposed this definition: “uses that provide services such as financial assistance, food, clothing, shelter, medical care, counseling and referrals to low‑income, homeless or unemployed population at no or reduced fees or similar services.” Dennis said staff has been using this working definition and recommended incorporating it into Section 11.5 of the LDC.
On industrial uses, staff proposed adding language to the general industrial services definition to clarify that it “also includes data centers, housing servers, storage systems, network equipment, and similar operations,” noting that data centers are effectively warehouse‑style, low‑impact indoor uses that are best regulated under the existing industrial category.
On vending machines, staff showed a photograph of a large standalone ice dispenser and said these devices are not coin‑operated as the current definition implies. The amendment would modernize the definition to describe an unattended dispenser that uses cash or multi‑payment point‑of‑sale systems and would treat large unattended dispensers as retail uses subject to parking, landscaping and signage requirements.
A planning board member asked whether the social‑service definition discriminated by mentioning “low‑income,” and Dennis responded that most social services are targeted to low‑income, homeless or unemployed populations and that if a provider charges full fees it would generally be regulated as a business under existing rules. Dennis also reminded the board that social‑service permit requests still must go before the City Commission under the 2012 amendment.
The board voted to recommend the LDC text amendments; the item will be scheduled for City Commission consideration on Dec. 3 and Dec. 17.
