TO: Mayor and Commission AGENDA DATE: 1/20/2026
FROM: City Manager AGENDA ITEM: 9 - E
SUBJECT:
Title
Request for approval of Resolution No. 2026-06 Howland Station Condo Developers LLC Settlement.
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LOCATION:
Tax parcels 810807000020 and 81080700030.
COST:
$3,125,000.00
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
General Fund - Fund Balance
ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT:
City Attorney’s Office
POTENTIAL MOTION:
Recommendation
“I move to approve Resolution No. 2026-06.”
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BACKGROUND:
Background
The City of Deltona, Florida (the “City”) is currently involved in litigation in Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, styled as Howland Station Condo Developers LLC v. City of Deltona and identified by Case Number 2025-10821-CIDL (the “Litigation”), which is the result of a dispute between the City and Howland Station Condo Developers, LLC (“Howland Station”) related to an application for development (the “Application”) upon property located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Howland Boulevard in the City of Deltona, Florida, which is identified as tax parcels 810807000020 and 810807000030 and is approximately 5.5 acres (the “Property”). Subsequent to filing the Litigation, Howland Station also issued a Presentation of Claim pursuant to Section 70.001, Florida Statutes, the Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights Protection Act (the “Bert Harris Claim”).
On January 6, 2026, the City and Howland Station participated in court-ordered mediation for the Litigation. After eight hours of negotiation, a mediated settlement that requires the approval of the City Commission (the “Settlement”) was reached in which Howland Station will execute a General Release extinguishing any and all claims including all past, present, and future claims for damages arising from the Dispute, including the Bert Harris Claim, and will convey the Property to the City. Howland Station will also bear their own attorney’s fees and costs. To effectuate the settlement, the City will pay Howland Station three million one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and zero cents ($3,125,000.00) (the “Settlement Amount”). As a further condition of the Settlement, the City will ratify the transaction in which Howland Station obtained the Church Property (the “Church Property Transaction”).
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