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Planning board backs Executive Storage comp-plan amendment and rezoning for Tomoka Farms site
Summary
The board recommended approval of a small-scale comp plan amendment and a rezoning to allow a 4.2-acre self-storage development at 1464 Tomoka Farms Road, including requested waivers and an added communications-tower use, and forwarded both items to the City Commission for hearings in December.
The Daytona Beach Planning Board on Oct. 24 recommended approval of two separate actions that together clear the way for a self-storage facility on a 4.2-acre parcel at 1464 Tomoka Farms Road.
City planner Doug Gutierrez told the board staff had reviewed a small-scale Comprehensive Plan amendment that would change the site’s designation from Volusia County Activity Center to City mixed use. Gutierrez said the staff analysis found the proposed amendment consistent with the city’s comprehensive plan and not representative of urban sprawl; the item is tentatively scheduled for first reading at the Dec. 4 City Commission meeting and a second reading Dec. 18.
Separately, the board heard a quasi-judicial rezoning request by Cobb Cole on behalf of Executive Storage LLC to rezone the lot to Planned Development-General (PDG) to allow a 24/7 self-storage operation, limited accessory office and an optional on-site residential unit. The applicant sought three LDC waivers — reduced internal sidewalk width, modified perimeter landscaping/buffer treatment and adjustments to vehicular use area landscaping — arguing self-storage is a low trip generator and that some perimeter treatment should be satisfied by building facades rather than conventional walls. Staff recommended forwarding the rezoning to the commission with a recommendation of approval.
Applicant representatives described on-site drainage measures, the need for shared vehicular access to limit curb cuts, and said modeling showed treatment and attenuation consistent with the Water Management District and city standards; the project will proceed to a site-plan review where final drainage and fill elevations will be verified. Property owner Sam Bologna and the applicant both told the board they had held a neighborhood meeting and said the property is elevated relative to nearby parcels and has existing culverts to collect runoff.
After questions from board members about access, the timing of potential county road improvements and detailed drainage plans, the board voted to recommend approval of the comp-plan amendment and, separately, the rezoning. The rezoning motion included the additional use of a communications tower, which the board requested be added to the PDG uses. Both actions will move to the City Commission for public hearings in December.
