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Deltona planning board backs rezoning for 129-acre Portland Industrial Park with traffic limits
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board voted 6–0 to recommend the City Commission adopt Ordinance O2-2021 to rezone roughly 129 acres for the Portland Industrial Park IPUD, subject to trip caps, right-of-way dedications and further staff-applicant refinement.
The Deltona Planning & Zoning Board recommended approval of Ordinance O2-2021 on Feb. 24, 2021, to rezone about 128–129 acres along North Normandy Boulevard to an Industrial Plan Unit Development for the Portland Industrial Park, and directed staff and the applicant to continue refining conceptual plans.
The board voted 6–0 after staff outlined the project, its anticipated scale and the traffic controls that would limit impacts on nearby neighborhoods. Planning staff said the development could support north of 2,000,000 square feet of gross floor area at full buildout but would be limited by a project trip cap. "The project at build out cannot generate any more than 5,407 trips," Ron Paradise, city planning staff, told the board, and staff estimated 848 of those trips would be heavy trucks.
Why it matters: The rezoning would open a large parcel in Deltona's activity center to industrial and distribution uses near…
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