Volusia County, FL Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

The Enterprise Community Overlay Zone, established by § 72-1300 over the boundaries of the 'Enterprise Local Plan' in the county comprehensive plan, applies to all new nonresidential development and residential subdivisions filed for a development order in that unincorporated community, adding an 'E' suffix to the underlying zoning classification; bona fide agricultural uses are exempt. Section 72-1302 then locks nonresidential buildings into one of five historic styles. Frame vernacular buildings need at least an eight-foot-wide front porch facing the public right-of-way, clapboard, lap siding or board-and-batten (or a simulated-wood substitute) on every façade, brick, coquina or stucco chimneys, and gable or hip roofs pitched between 7:12 and 12:12, with porch roofs between 2:12 and 4:12.

Masonry vernacular substitutes brick, rustic stone or stuccoed concrete block and cast-concrete or corbelled brick ornament. Flat roofs are allowed on commercial or mixed-use buildings over 5,000 square feet only if the design also includes stepped parapets, an 18-inch cornice with three relief changes, or a combined flat/pitched roof. These design rules layer onto the streetscape requirements of § 72-1301 governing the same overlay's road frontages, and both are reviewed alongside the standard nonresidential design standards in § 72-303 during site plan review.