The Daytona Beach Board of Zoning Adjustments on Oct. 16 approved variances (BOA2025-024) that will allow construction of a single-family home and an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on a vacant parcel at 340 Lane Street.

The approvals modify standards in the Land Development Code (Article 4, Redevelopment Midtown Residential Preservation RDM-6, and Article 5 use standards for accessory dwelling units). Variances include reducing the front yard setback from 15 feet to 12 feet, reducing the minimum yard setback from 25 feet to 12 feet, increasing maximum accessory structure coverage from 35% to 40% of the primary structure, reducing an ADU interior side yard setback from 7.5 feet to 5 feet, and increasing the ADU rear-yard maximum floor area from 200 square feet to 240 square feet. The proposed development comprises a 1,205-square-foot single-family home and a 480-square-foot ADU.

Applicant Elliot Meadows said the parcel is unusually shallow (about 50 feet deep) and that the variances are needed to fit two small houses on the lot. Meadows said the property was previously awarded a variance in February 2007 to Habitat for Humanity but that Habitat did not build the homes; Meadows’ firm acquired or will acquire the lots from Habitat and intends to build affordable housing. “We’re building as many of those as we can,” Meadows said, describing the project as part of efforts to expand affordable homeownership in Daytona Beach.

Meadows described the ADU as a one- or two-bedroom unit with its own kitchen and utilities; he and staff clarified that city code requires owner occupancy of either the principal or accessory unit for ADU rental eligibility. The applicant said the two homes on this parcel are intended to sell for under $300,000, which Meadows characterized as an affordable new-home price in the current market.

Board members asked about the history of the prior variance and the ADU configuration; staff identified the prior award to Habitat in February 2007. No members of the public spoke against the variances at the hearing. A motion to approve BOA2025-024 was made and seconded, and the motion passed by roll call. The roll call recorded David Betts, Patrick Connors, Charles Cameron and Leon McCray as voting yes.

The approval authorizes the variances needed to build the two dwellings and the ADU as described; the board did not record any additional conditions in the hearing transcript.