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Planning board discusses 'missing middle' housing, gentle density and adaptive reuse

5489196 · May 20, 2025
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Consultants and board members explored options such as duplexes, triplexes, cottage courts, accessory dwelling units, tiny homes, gentle density and form-based rules as tools to broaden housing choices in DeLand.

City consultants and Planning Board members in DeLand discussed a set of housing strategies intended to broaden choices in the city, including so-called "missing middle" housing, gentle density, adaptive reuse and limited form-based regulations.

David (Consultant, project team) said the update could create opportunities to "reintroduce or even incentivize... duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhomes," and other building types that fall between detached single-family homes and larger multifamily buildings. "There will be opportunities to kind of reintroduce or even incentivize, you know, the ability to make some of these kinds…

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