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DeLand adopts tiny‑home zoning and building code changes to allow small‑scale communities
Summary
The DeLand City Commission approved Ordinance 2025‑16 to allow tiny‑home communities in specific downtown and residential zoning districts and adopted Appendix Q to the Florida Building Code on Oct. 20, 2025, setting unit sizes, density caps, and design and parking standards aimed at creating transitional and affordable housing options.
The DeLand City Commission voted Oct. 20 to allow tiny‑home communities in select residential and commercial districts and to adopt corresponding building‑code standards.
Planning Director Carol **** told the commission the package — developed since 2023 with workshops, planning‑board review and public outreach — defines a ‘tiny‑home community’ as three or more units (200–600 square feet) on a permanent foundation, limits projects to a maximum of 20 units per acre and two acres per project, and requires design standards intended to preserve neighborhood character. "Form‑based code looks less at what's happening on the inside, and more how the buildings relate to the street," Carol **** said during her Code Talk presentation.
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