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Planning Board updates tree preservation rules to encourage pine retention, eases palm requirements
Summary
The board approved a Land Development Code amendment (DEV2025-642) to clarify landscaping and tree preservation rules — encouraging preservation of native pine trees, specifying when palms may be excluded from specimen counts, and clarifying replacement/mitigation calculations and definitions.
The Daytona Beach Planning Board voted to approve changes to Articles 4, 6 and 11 of the Land Development Code to clarify landscaping, tree preservation and mitigation standards (DEV2025-642).
Senior planner Dan Lee Pedock said the amendments aim to encourage preservation of native pine trees and to reduce undue burdens created by counting ubiquitous palm trees as specimen trees. Pedock told the board the changes would: remove language that discouraged preserving pine species in a scenic corridor overlay; allow palms…
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