Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. Welcome to the March 10, 2026 Apopka Planning Commission. If you will please stand with me for a moment of silent prayer and the pledge.

Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

During tonight's meeting, each agenda item will have a time for public comment. If there's anyone here from the public that wishes to speak on a matter that is not on the agenda, now would be the time to be recognized. Moving ahead, we have meeting minutes from February 10th, 2026. Does anyone have any changes or additions? So, we need a motion.

Motion by Commissioner Norwood. Do I have a second? I'll second it. Second by Commissioner Woods. Thank you very much. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Public hearing number one, ordinance 3132, smallcale future land use amendment, 606 South Hawthorne Avenue. Owners, reason for the season LLC. Applicants, Jean Abbe, Anound, Mr. Song.

Good evening. This is Jun planner at the community development department. The applicant has requested a small scale future land use amendment for the property located at 606 South Horn Avenue. The size of the property is 7.68 acre. The current use of the property is industrial warehouse. The current future land use of the property is mixed use and commercial and requested future land use is industrial to be consistent with the property located at at the south of the property owned by the same owner. The change of future land use will allow the current use to be permitted and um consistent with the properties to the south on um property to the south the city staff and I'm sorry uh DRC has recommended approval and recommended motion is motion is um find the proposed change in future land use um from the mixed use and commercial to industry. The state city staff and applicant are available for any questions.

Anyone have questions? Does anyone have questions of staff? All right. Anyone have questions of the applicant? No. Very well. All right. Bring it back to the board for a motion and discussion. Mr. Chairman, I I find the proposed change in future land use designation from mixed use and commercial to industrial consistent with the comprehensive plan and land development code and compatible with character of the surrounding areas and recommend approval of the proposed change of future land use based on the findings and facts presented in the staff report and exhibits. Thank you, sir. Motion by Commissioner Mont. Do I have a second?

I'll second. Second by Commissioner Doomy. All in favor say I. I I any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Same property. This is quasi judicial. So I'll have to ask, has any board members had any exparte communication on this matter? No. Very well. Ordinance number 3133, change of zoning, 606 South Hawthorne Avenue. Reason for the season LLC is the owner. applicant is Jean Abi Anown. Mr. Th

for the record, this is Jun Planner at the community development department. This is a request of reszoning of the same property located at 606 South Hon Avenue. The size of the property is 7.6 acre. The current use of the property is industrial warehouse. Current zoning is mixed use is Shore Gateway and requested zoning is light industrial. DRC has recommended approval and recommended motion for planning commission is approval of reszoning to light industrial. Does anyone have any questions of staff or applicant? All right, bring it back to the board for a motion.

Motion Thank you, ma'am. Motion by Commissioner Norwood. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Wood. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Site plan number one. Andish North Major Development Plan owners IPM S1 Rio LLC HMF LLC Charles P Stalling Kim L Stallings Eugene E Stallings Jr. and Crystal Denise Stallings. Applicant PY care of Aaron Struck Meer parcel let's see location northwest corner of Anditch Road and State Road 453 State Road 429. Miss Sanchez.

Good afternoon. Jean Sanchez with the community development department. This is a request recommend approval of the major development plan for Andage North. The site is located on the northwest corner of Onage Road and State Road 453 and 429, approximately 196 acres in size and characterized largely by rural and agricultural lands with the onch south subdivision located to the south of it. The future land use designation for the property is residential estate which allows one dwelling unit per acre and supporting it supports lower residential development consisted consistent with the surrounding rural character. Property is zoned PD plan development which allowed the city to regulate development through a master plan as well as a PD agreement. The development uses a cluster design approach allowing approximately 50% of the property about 98 acres to remain preserved as open space. They have entrances, a couple of them provided along on ditch road, um one to the west and one to the east. The eastern entrance uh contains left and right turn lanes going into the subdivision. The plan also includes a central amenity area which will serve as a gathering space for residents. The amenities includes include a resort style pool, cabana with restrooms, covered mailbox, kiosk, recreational lawns, and a mult multi-purpose trail system integrated within the preserved open space areas. The development may be constructed in two phases with the amenity center required to be built as as part of phase one. The landscaping plan illustrates how existing vegetation and tree preservation areas are incorporated throughout the development. Landscape buffers are provided along the perimeter of the site that helps maintain the

rural character of the surrounding area. As mentioned earlier, the open space plan preserves approximately half of the site as open space. Large preserved areas are located primarily along the northern western boundaries which provides buffering between the subdivision and neighboring agricultural lands. The open space areas also accommodate trip preservation tracks, storm water management facilities, passive recreational areas as well as the community trail system. The DRC recommends approval and the recommended motion tonight is to recommend approval of the major development plan. Staff and applicant are available for questions.

Thank you, Miss Sanchez. Anyone have questions of staff? I do, Mr. Chairman. All right, Commissioner Die. First off, I think the open space on this is fantastic. So, that's great. uh really like the way the the property is laid out so that there are buffers between say on road and the houses. I think that I think that'll be really helpful and that you know that kind of stuff helps property values as well. People don't have to live right beside the road. But my question is about the traffic along on ditch road. So given that and Plymouth Srento the traffic's getting pretty bad out that way with these developments. What's the plan for traffic lights specifically at Plymouth Sarrento Road on and Elfie road with on on

so the northern part of FE these roads are mostly county I think you know this particularly about uh PSR Plymouth Sarrento road whenever there are developments on Plymouth Srento we do ask for donations of rightway just so when the county has the county decides to make some improvements on there for capacity um they could do it uh easily without having to go through right ofway acquisition on the north I or on the road. I haven't received um I haven't received information that there's any kind of proposed or projected plan for improvements on there. Um Luke, did you talk to them about this project? Orange County,

we did. Okay. Um actually, I think we got away. Yeah. Um so I'll defer that part over to the applicant um particularly for this um project, but Effie is also um a county road. I think you're talking about Effie all the way up there to the north. Correct. Yeah. Good. Thank you. So we'll revisit we'll revisit that when it's time. All right. applicant here. Oh, guess not. All right, bring it back to the Oh, okay. Okay.

Uh Luke class 1828 engineering to answer your question, Commissioner Dei. Um we have coordinated with Orange County. We've actually submitted and gotten two rounds of comments from Orange County. They are requesting rightaway dedication along. We're doing that on our part. In addition, uh for Plymouth RTO, there's no additional um impacts to that intersection. My understanding is that is moving forward. or they're doing a corridor study for that area for potential light in the future. But this proposed development, if you look at the trip generation, there's not as many trips going east. They're coming down FE and then getting off of 429 which which kind of makes sense with the 429 where where this is laying out

for Effie and um on there's a potential for um uh we're coordinating with Orange County right now as part of the e- permit process which is the way we permit them because all the roads that feed this development FE onto as you mentioned um are all county roads and so we're coordinating with them for what they call a proportionate share agreement. we did do as part of our traffic impact analysis that we that was submitted by and reviewed by the city and Orange County um an analysis they call a signal warrant analysis. So the way the county looks at things is they won't let you just build a signal. It has to meet certain criteria and currently that intersection doesn't meet but that doesn't mean that we won't pay our fair share for our future signal. So, we're coordinating with them right now as far as contribution for proportionate share uh proportionate share agreement for contributions for the our trips that we put toward the intersection for a future signal.

Great. That's good to hear. We it definitely needs to be on our radar as a city that that's going to be a problem probably pretty quick after you guys start building. Yeah. Unfortunately, because it is a county road even with our contributions doesn't mean it's it's it's next year or six months. It could be a while. It could be a short time. it it but we we are dedicating right away and we are contributing uh coordinating with them on a proportion share agreement for our fair contributions. Okay. Appreciate you. Thank you. All right. Anyone else have questions for the applicant? Thank you, sir.

I assume no one from the public is here to speak on this matter. So, bring it back to the board for a motion. Mr. Chairman, I'd make a motion that find the proposed Andage North major development plan consistent with the comprehensive plan and land development code and recommend approval for the major development plan based upon the findings and facts presented in the staff report and exhibits. Thank you, ma'am. Motion by Commissioner Norwood. Do I have a second? Second.

Second by Commissioner Mott. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Right. Do we have any old business? Do we have any new business? Don't look at your watch. Oh, this is very very fast.