Comprehensive Planning Section

The Comprehensive Planning Section regulates the orderly expansion of the City through long-range planning activities as well as studying the established uses to ensure their continued benefit. .

Comprehensive Plan

The Comprehensive Plan provides the guidance for development in the City for the next twenty years. The plan serves as our guide in making short-term land use decisions and informs our work in preparing development regulations.

Land Development Section

The Land Development Section is responsible for providing information and guiding developers, architects, and the general public through the site development approval process. The Section analyzes requests to ensure compliance with the City’s Opens a New Window. Land Development Regulations Opens a New Window. and makes recommendations on development proposals, special exceptions, variances, and changes of zoning that affect the general welfare of the City of New Smyrna Beach. 

Planning & Zoning Board

The New Smyrna Beach Planning and Zoning Board is the Local Planning Agency and a citizen board that reviews subdivisions and site plans for compliance with City Codes Opens a New Window. . 

Technical Review Staff

City Technical Review Staff will provide technical review for site plans, preliminary and final subdivision plats and Planned Unit Development (PUD) Master Development Agreements and Conceptual Development Plans.

Resources

• April 2019 Development Activity Report
• Hurricane Irma HMGP Update (Mar 7, 2019)
• Density Calculations Presentation (Feb 19, 2019)
• Comprehensive Plan
• Future Land Use Map Opens a New Window.
• Zoning Map Opens a New Window.
• Land Development Regulations Opens a New Window.
• Comprehensive Planning Section Applications and Fees
• Land Development Section Applications and Fee
• Pre-Application Form
• Interactive Zoning Map