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Volusia County adopts contested rewrite of Chapter 72 zoning rules amid protests
Summary
After hours of public comment and heated debate, the county council approved amendments to Chapter 72 that move dozens of special‑exception land uses to PLDRC review, conditional‑use or by‑right processes, prompting opposition from residents who said the changes reduce public hearings and elected oversight.
The Volusia County Council on Sept. 4 narrowly approved a rewrite of Chapter 72 of the county zoning code that reclassifies many land uses and shifts final approval authority for dozens of special exceptions from the county council to the Planning and Land Development Regulation Commission (PLDRC) or to administrative/by‑right approvals.
Planning and development staff framed the changes as a trimming of regulatory steps intended to speed permitting and reduce duplicative hearings. Carol McFarland, interim growth and resource management director, told the council staff corrected scrivener errors and…
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