- December 20, 2025
A retail plaza will be coming to a 10-acre lot next to Royal County Boulevard in west Daytona Beach.
The property was previously zoned for single-family residential but the developer, Norfield SRL, LLC, applied to the city to rezone it for office and retail use. The Daytona Beach City Commission voted 6-0 to approve the application. Vice Mayor and Zone 4 Commissioner Stacy Cantu was presiding over the commission meeting as Mayor Derrick Henry was absent.
Cantu said she had heard from some residents that they would like to see a wall built between their properties and the proposed plaza.
The development is called The Commons at LPGA and is located just south of Father Lopez Catholic High School on west LPGA Boulevard. Approximately 15 homes on Sand Trap Court will share the development’s east boundary.
A memo included in the application from the developer to city staff characterized the area as undergoing “significant residential population growth” but has “incredibly limited retail, business, and professional service options along the corridor.” Residents currently have to drive toward Interstate 95 or Interstate 4 for these services.
“The Commons will provide the public benefit of increased local access to retail and professional services,” the application reads, “reducing the amount of traffic that must travel to these high congestion zones while filling a major gap for much-needed services in the immediate area.”
According to the proposed site plan, the 10-acre lot will have two stormwater ponds — one on the north and one on the south end of property — two office buildings and four retail buildings. One office building will be next to each stormwater pond and the four retail buildings in the center of the lot.
Two of the retail buildings will each be 17,600 square feet in size, while the two remaining buildings will be 6,400 square feet, according to the site plan. The site will have 258 parking spaces and two entrances off of LPGA Boulevard.
The boundaries of the property are surrounded by landscape buffers: a 50-foot landscape buffer on the west side next to LPGA Boulevard and a 15-foot landscape buffer on the east side, facing the residential neighborhood.
David Glunt, representing the developer, said some of the concerns from residents in the Sand Trap Court neighborhood stemmed from the previous developer promising the land would remain a conservation area.
Though some residents wanted a wall between the properties, the proposed Type D buffer, Glunt said, would provide more coverage once the vegetation was at maturity.
“That's why we were proposing a more intense, semi opaque buffer,” Glunt said, “which provides a lot of planting materials that can reach a height over the six foot mark and provide a good, full buffer at maturity.”
In the meantime, Glunt offered to add a six-foot PVC privacy fence along that border as well.
