Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. We plan to call to order the September 22nd, 2026 Hopka Planning Commission agenda. If you'd please stand for a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, we're being here this evening. The next section of the meeting is the public commentary. If there's someone here in the audience that wants to make a comment, this would be the time. If you have a comment for one of the things on the agenda, please reserve that comment and help the agenda. Hopefully everyone heard that. Is there anyone that has a comment in the public comment section? Se

A second by Mary Norwood. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Minutes are carried. The first item on the public hearing is quasi-judicial, so I'm going to ask the commission, have you had any conversations regarding this? All right, thank you. This is Ordinance 3156, rezoning the KPI master plan, Saddlebrook Meadows. Owners, Christopher Crosby-Johnson, Albert McKimmy, and Susan Incarshado. In Cashot, I think, hopefully. Applicant is Jeff Summit, PE. The location is 3585 and 3603 Golden Gem Road. The project is Saddlebrook Meadows. And the project manager is Bobby Howe. Mr. Howe.

Any questions for Mr. Howell? The applicant.

Any additional questions for the applicant? Is there anyone in the public that wants to address this ordinance?

All right. I'm looking for comments or emotion.

I have a motion from Commissioner Dume. Do I have a second?

I have a second from commissioner woods all in favor. Say, aye aye opposed. It's caring Thank you. Number 2 is quasi judicial as well. So I'm going to ask the commission. Has there been any conversation that you've had with this. Prior all right Thank you. This is Hogshead Industrial SPX. Owners Mary Moore, Hogshead Investment Properties Limited. Applicant Van Heckenen. This is 4212 Hogshead Road. And the project manager is Amir Hamza. Mr. Hamza.

All right, Commissioner Wood. Same question. Okay. Mr. Hamza, when I read through this, I interpreted that they were going to store vehicles of some form. The question that I would have, because we're being asked to give us a special exemption for this, the surrounding properties. Has anyone asked for a special exemption for the same thing? And have they been granted the same thing or have they been.

If we do this, that we treat everybody the same.

Okay. Yeah. Any other questions for staff and the applicants? All right.

With outside storage, could it be any type of hazardous materials?

Seeing no one, I'll bring it back for discussion and for a motion.

Motion by Commissioner Doomey. Do I have a second? Second by Commissioner Woods. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's care. Thank you.

Item number three on the agenda is also quasi-judicial. So I'll ask the commissioners if there's been any conversation prior to this. Thank you very much. This is a special exemption for outdoor storage as a principal use for overnight parking of commercial vehicles in the IL Light Industrial Zoning District. Warner is Carolina Textiles. Apathent is Adam Berry. The location is 300 South Bradshaw Road. And the project manager is June Sohan. Mr. Sohan.

Thank you. Any questions for staff? I had a question in reading this, and you even brought it up, regarding the screening wall. Is this a solid wall, or is this some type of wall system that you can kind of see through?

And I don't know if this is for you or to the applicant, but when this was discussed at the Development Review Committee meeting, was there any discussion as to the height of this wall?

Excuse me. This is for parking, correct?

Okay. How many parking spaces are they looking to put in there? I had to pull the site plan on here.

11. What types of vehicles are these? Trailers?

Okay. They're going to have to have some type of equipment to move?

Okay. And what type of accommodation for your dog they normally can't travel on public streets? How are they going to fuel it?

Okay. Because, you know, that's a different subject if they're going to put in some type of tank either above or below ground.

Is anyone in the audience this evening that would like to make the comments? All right. Seeing none, I'll bring it back for commission discussion and a motion.

I think that most drivers, if they're bobtail and they're dropping off the tractor and they're bobtail, they may have another load in most cases. So they...

It probably won't be the domicile. They're just coming in and dropping off the truck.

I'll give the motion. Excuse me. Pursuant to the City of Apopka Code of Ordinance Part 3 of Land Development Code, Article 2, Section 2.3.2.B.1.A. The Planning Commission has authority to make decisions on special... Oh, I'm sorry. I RECOMMEND APPROVAL. I THOUGHT THAT WAS KIND OF LONG. I RECOMMEND A MOTION TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF A SPECIAL EXEMPTION TO ALLOW OUTDOOR STORAGE AS A PRINCIPLE USE FOR OVERNIGHT PARKING OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES IN THE I.L. INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICT SUBJECT TO THE EXHIBITS AND FINDINGS OF THE STAFF REPORT. I'M SORRY FOR READING IT WRONG.

THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER WOODS. DO I HAVE A SECOND?

I have a second from Commissioner Norwood. Thank you. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? It is carried. Thank you. The next part of the agenda is site plans. Number one, this is quasi-judicial, so I'll ask the commission again, have you had any prior discussions?

All right. Thank you. This is Saddlebrook Meadows. Owner is Christopher Crosby Johnson, Albert McKimmy, and Susan Incasciato. This is Jeff's summit applicant. It's 3585 and 3603 Golden Gem Road. This is project manager is Bobby Howell. Mr. Howell.

Any questions for staff? Any questions for the applicant?

Any additional questions for the applicant? Thank you. Okay. Any discussion? Oh, yes. Sorry. Is there someone in public that would like to comment? Thank you. Seeing no public, I'll take it back for a motion.

Okay. Recommended by Commissioner Doomey. A second? I second. A second by Commissioner Woods. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion is carried. Thank you. Item number two. This is quasi-judicial. Has the commission had any prior discussion? All right. Thank you. This is the major development plan for the Pellucci Acres Pod 1, A, B, and 4 Phase 1. Owners, Pellucci Acres LLC. Applicant, Luke Klassen. And Amir Hamza is the project manager. Mr. Hamza.

Any other questions for staff? Okay. Okay. Questions for the applicant, Mr. Classen.

You may have answered my question. There's been discussions before on right turn, left turn lanes, and that was left open. Is that being addressed at this point?

Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the Commission for comments and a motion.

Okay, I've got a motion by Commissioner Doomey. A second?

A second by Commissioner Norwood. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? It carries. Thank you very much. The next item for discussion is the land development code workshop and I want to share with the commission. Commissioner Ryan and chairman Ryan was the 1 that suggested this a couple of months ago. And he was not able to be here this evening. I would like to propose that we postpone that workshop, seeing that Chairman Ryan was the one that asked us to do that work, and I would hate for him to miss that. I spoke with Mr. Howell a little earlier this week, and I'd like to propose that we move t

Mr. Chairman. The only concern I have is it's 428 pages long. It includes multiple sections and My opinion is we need to have a more structural approach than a shotgun approach that we take this bites at a time. I'm not going to say a section at a time because some sections may have no issues with where other sections there are a lot of issues with. We'd like to, if the planning department can handle that, is to give us a proposal on how best to digest this for us to go in.

Well, before you say anything, Mr. Howell, I read through the... I read through the packet and put comments and then sent that into the planning department, which I believe that they emailed out to you all. As I was reading through that, because it was not something that I did in one sitting, certainly. And as I was reading through that, I had the same thought. I'm thinking, oh my goodness, this is not one workshop. This would be an eight-hour endeavor. And that would be just almost to regurgitate what is there. And if anybody, I'm sure other people have comments that are possibly the same as

I APPRECIATE THAT. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ALL READ THROUGH THE NUMEROUS RED COMMENTS THAT I MADE, THERE WAS A COUPLE PLACES WHERE I MADE COMMENTS IN RELATION TO, AND THIS KIND OF GOES BACK TO THE SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED, THE PULUCCI ACRES PROJECT. AND I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I WILL RESTATE THAT We as a planning commission operate here currently under the current planning code. We don't operate on a code that we'd like to have. We operate on the current code and the current code, what it says. But as I was reading through that code, I made some notations that I'd said something

And I used to live there. And Scottsdale, Arizona has a corridor. And it, I would say, is probably 10 to 12 miles long. That's essentially a dry riverbed until the rainy season. And then it becomes a raving torrent of water that goes through there. But when they're not in the rainy season, golf courses, parks, bike paths, literally, it's a green corridor. And it's probably, I would say, in some places, two blocks, two city blocks wide, 10, 12 miles long. If you've ever seen that, it's kind of on the eastern side of Scottsdale runs north and south. And i'm sure wildlife traverse through there a

Well, I mean, I think it would be. But I guess what I meant to say is that I'll go back and look at mine. And let's say of the suggestions I have, I break them down into eight categories. I've now got eight categories. I'm going to listen to your three. I'm certainly not going to repeat your three. I'll repeat, I'll, I'll add to it, you know, in that scenario, because as, as Mr. Hand said, you know, it's a year, but I can tell you from being involved in watching the process, it will take a year, if not more of, of diligent work. We could work, you know, Every month for a year, and we still mig

I purposely didn't say data centers, but I might have a different opinion. Now, do we need a motion to move that until the 10th of November, or do we just...

Okay. So it is, I'll just ask as a consensus thing is everybody in favor of November 10th for the workshop. Yes, yes. Okay. That was unanimous. So November 10th, we'll move it to the workshop and we'll wish Mr. Ryan well and want him to be back in October and November. Yeah. So is there anything further discussion?

All right. Nothing further. Meeting's adjourned.