Meet Our Legal Team

Glenn D. Storch was born in Jacksonville and raised in the Tampa area, where he received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of South Florida in 1977 and a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 1980. While at Stetson, Glenn served as Executive Editor of the Stetson Law Review, and published several works. After graduating from Stetson, Glenn worked as an Assistant State Attorney in the 18th Judicial Circuit and later became house counsel for The Deltona Corporation in Miami, Florida. Glenn entered private practice in 1984, and is the majority shareholder of Storch Law Firm.

COMMUNITY: Glenn has been active in contributing to his community in ways that provide a positive impact to the East Central Florida area, including being a board member of the Board of Directors for AdventHealth Hospital, New Smyrna Beach. In the past, he has been appointed to and chaired the Volusia County Environmental and Natural Resources Committee [ENRAC], the Volusia County Beach Advisory Committee, and has been an appointed member of many other committees, including Charter Review and the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program citizens committee. He has also chaired the Volusia County Association for Responsible Development [VCARD] and Samsula Scholars Foundation, and has served as president of the Bethune Beach POA and on the Board of Governors of the Smyrna Yacht Club. He is also a proud member of the Civic League of the Halifax and the Volusia League of Cities.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: The ability to work together with Local Governments is important to resolving many of the complex issues inherent in Land Use Law. In addition, over the years, the firm was honored to represent a number of local governments in specific issues to help their communities, including the City of Edgewater, the City of Port Orange, the City of Lake Helen, the City of New Smyrna Beach, and Flagler County Planning Board.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: 2019 Statewide Florida Planning and Zoning Association George W. Simmons, Jr. Award for lifetime achievement; MyCoast Magazine: 55 Most Influential People in Volusia and Flagler County.

He was also a team member for the creation of the award-winning Farmton Local Plan, which provided exceptional planning for economic development while preserving over 40,000 acres of land without any cost to the citizens of Florida.

PERSONAL: Glenn has lived in Florida his entire life and is a seventh-generation Floridian. Glenn and Cathy have been married for over 35 years and are very proud of the accomplishments of their children, Ben and Olivia, and of the many friends they made and the help those friends gave in helping to raise their children to be sensible and good people they have become.

BALANCE BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECOSYSTEMS:

As a seventh generation Floridian and part of a family that has created a 400 acre wildlife preserve at the family home on the west coast of Florida, Glenn has always worked with governments, clients and residents to find methods to balance property rights and economic development with preservation and enhancement of the Florida ecosystem.

Some of the notable achievements in the more than 40 years that Glenn has worked together with all parties to achieve this goal have been:

1. Removal of hundreds of homes and small lots from septic tanks in Bethune Beach by working with the County to create a tax district to replace all septic tanks with city sewer. This removed massive amounts of effluent, nutrients and e-coli bacteria from the sensitive Indian River Lagoon ecosystem.
2. Served as chairman of the Environmental and Natural Resources Advisory Committee which created and guided passage by the County Council of the Environmental Minimum Standards for the entire county, including all cities. This created the current protections for the Indian River Lagoon, including setback and natural vegetation protection, wetland and wetland buffer protection, tree protections, coastal dune protection and sea turtle protection among others. These standards have been in place for over 20 years as a result of the work of this committee. Former congressman Suzanne Kosmas was vice-chairman and the entire committee represented a cross section of the county that allowed the creation of a consensus to get these standards established.
3. Five years work to help create the Farmton Local Plan. This plan, which was implemented in 2007, accomplished the following massive benefits for the Florida Wildlife Corridor and Volusia and Brevard Counties ecosystem:
   1. Removal of a subdivision that would have permitted thousands of ranchettes with individual wells and septic tanks across 59,000 acres. These fenced ranchettes would have prevented any wildlife corridor in this area and prevented the connection of the Florida Wildlife Corridor from north to south.
   2. Preservation of a 45,000 acre habitat corridor with a conservation management plan funded by the landowner. The habitat corridor was designed with the aid of ecologists and the Audubon Society to ensure proper ecologically sustainable corridors for habitat including special provisions for black bear habitat. The preservation was without cost to the tax payers.
   3. Creation of layered grants of conservation easements to a number of parties to ensure perpetual preservation these corridors. The conservation easements were granted to St. Johns Water Management District, the Florida Audubon Society and either Volusia County or Brevard County depending on which jurisdiction the land was located. Any change in the status of the conservation easement would require agreement of all three grantees.
   4. Creation of a conservation management plan funded by the landowner to maintain and enhance the native Florida ecosystem by removing invader species and restoring natural floodways. This plan has been implemented for over a decade and has paid for by the landowner and reviewed by the grantees.
   5. Creation of the Deering Preserve at Deep Creek and transferring 1,385 acres to Volusia County. The County describes this as “1,385 acres of conservation land featuring Deep Creek, a five mile body of water that crosses the property as it flows to the St. Johns River.  The natural community types here include pine flatwoods, cypress domes, and floodplain swamps.  Great blue heron, osprey, bald eagle, alligator, river otter, bobcat, deer and turkey make their homes” This land was transferred at no cost to the taxpayers.
4. Helped to create Deering Park North within the City of Edgewater, where the landowner agreed to voluntarily preserve 3700+ acres. The conservation easement for this preservation area was recorded in September of 2024. This conservation area is directly adjacent to the Farmton Local Plan habitat corridor and will continue that habitat corridor to the New Smyrna Beach City boundary. The land is a mixture of wetlands and uplands that provide for better overall habitat and will be maintained pursuant to a conservation management plan approved by Edgewater.
5. As chairman of Deering Park Stewardship District, approved the donation of land by Farmton North, LLC and contract to build the Edgewater Wetland Park [total cost over 7 million] to take upland areas and convert them to wetlands capable of receiving reclaimed water effluent that had previously been dumped in the Indian River Lagoon which caused increased nutrients. When completed the City of Edgewater will be able to remove all such nutrient laden effluents from the Indian River Lagoon and use the water to enhance the new wetland ecosystem and add water to the aquifer.