Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Municipal Planning Board approved six consent agenda items, including annexations, rezonings, and amendments to the Growth Management Plan. One item, a master plan for senior housing, was deferred to the next meeting. The board also received an update on a previously appealed case regarding a church development.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Orlando, FL
Meeting Date
March 17, 2026

Transcript

36 sections

0:27Speaker 8

Bill Brown. Bill Brown. Bill Brown.

0:51 – 5:02Speaker 1

We are glad you have joined us for today's meeting. The Municipal Planning Board, MPB, is an advisory board to City Council comprised of citizens, members who voluntarily and without compensation devote their time and talents to a variety of zoning and land development issues in the community. All MPB recommendations are subject to final action by City Council. We anticipate the minutes of today's meeting will be presented at the City Council meeting on April 20th, 2026 for approval of recommended actions. Any person designed to appeal a recommended action of the Board should observe the notice regarding appeals below. Caution, untimely filing by any applicant shall result in an automatic denial of the appeal. The Board is pleased to hear all non-repetitive public comment. Large groups are requested to name a spokesperson. When you are recognized, state your name and address. Direct all your remarks to the Board and limit your comments to three minutes per item or as set during the meeting. Robert's Rules of Order govern the conduct of this meeting. The City of Orlando encourages courteous civil discourse. When acting on items identified with the letters GMP, the Board is acting in its capacity as the local planning agency, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 163.3174 Florida Statutes. Items identified with one asterisk or legislative matters, policy setting actions, and are to be conducted according to standard public hearing procedures. Appeals of one asterisk items must be filled with the city clerk's office before five o'clock p.m. Monday, March 23rd, 2026. To schedule an appearance before city council in accordance with chapter two, article one. 25 of the 24, 24, my apologies, 24 of the city code identity items identified with two asterisks or quasi judicial matters implementing actions on how to be conducted subject to the Florida Supreme Court ruling in board of county commissioners of Brevard County versus Snyder. The board's decision must be supported by competent, substantial evidence. Persons dissatisfied with the board recommendation in such matters may be entitled to a novel hearing before an independent hearing officer in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 2, Article 30, 27, 32, 32 of the City Code. A request for a new hearing appeal with respect to items with two asterisks must be filed with the Municipal Planning Board Recording Secretary by 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 2026. There is a $500 non-refundable fee for this appeal. The MPB Recording Secretary may be reached at betsy.browne at orlando.gov or 407-246-3365. Any person who desires to appeal any decision at this meeting will need a record of the proceedings and for this purpose may need to ensure that a verbatim Record of the proceedings is made that include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is made. Thank you for participating in your government and making Olano truly the city beautiful.

5:05Speaker 8

Mr. Secretary, do we have quorum?

5:09Speaker 6

Shall I call the roll? Is that generally how we do it? Yes, we do have quorum. And for the record, this is Ed Peterson filling in for Betsy today.

5:19 – 5:43Speaker 7

Perfect. And board, just a happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm glad you're wearing your green tie. And just to note, as you know, it's spring break. So both the chair and the vice chair are absent today. I don't know, but they must be doing something fun. So we would need to make a motion for our volunteer fill in interim chair to be the chair for today's meeting. If you don't, you so would like to.

5:44Speaker 5

I would like to make a motion to make Mr. Barrett interim chairman.

5:51Speaker 7

Perfect. Go ahead and say aye if you'd like to make that.

5:56Speaker 7

Aye. Perfect. All right. We can continue.

6:01Speaker 1

I will call this meeting to order at 9.05 a.m. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

6:14Speaker 8

Pledge of Allegiance.

6:32 – 6:55Speaker 1

Good morning, once again. I'm happy to stand in as the interim chair this morning in the absence of our chair and vice chair. And I hope I do a good job today. Consideration of February 17, 2026 meetings, minutes, and with the reading of the minutes. Would someone like to make a motion?

6:56Speaker 2

I'll make a motion.

6:58 – 7:12Speaker 1

I'll second. Okay, motion moved by Ms. Daly, Board Member Daly, seconded by Board Member Bastyr. Bastyr, yes. Okay. All in favor?

7:13Speaker 8

Unmute your mic and say aye.

7:16 – 8:40Speaker 1

Aye. Seeing that there's no nays, decision passed unanimously. If the MPB has not adjoined for the day or voted to take an earlier lunch break, the Board will complete the agenda item being reviewed as of 1230 p.m. and will pause for a half-hour lunch break at the conclusion of that item. In accordance with Section 286, that 0114 Florida Statutes, any member of the public can be heard on any matter before the board today. If the item is listed on the consent agenda, you may ask that that item be pulled and placed on the regular agenda. You may then speak on that item when discussed on the regular agenda. You may complete a speaker request form in advance of the meeting on orlando.gov forward slash public comments. or file, fill out a speaker request form and hand it to the board secretary. Please note participation must be in person. Virtual participation will no longer be accepted. Do any board members have any conflicts to declare? Seeing there's none, I will now turn this meeting over to Mr. Jason Burton and ask him to review the consent agenda.

8:41 – 13:56Speaker 7

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Today, we have a number of items on the consent agenda. The first one is 2901 Corrine Drive. The applicant is Katie McGruder of Dix-Hyde Partners. The owner is Corrine Development II, LLC. The location is 2901 Corrine Drive. The district is three. The project planner is Calandra Jones. These are three items, annexation, ANX 2025, 1004, annex of the subject property in the city limits of Orlando. B is GMP 2025-122. This is the growth management plan or comp plan change to assign the neighborhood activity center future land use designation. and zoning, rezoning, if you will, for ZON 2025-113 to sign the initial zoning of ACN. The recommended action is approval of the request subject to the conditions of staff report. Of note, the applicant is here to speak in case there's anyone. We did get a, not a public speaker request, but on the dais at each one of your station, there was a comment from a neighbor on the street. Moving on to number two, ARC and DIG dog run. Applicant is Adam Harbin of the ARC Orlando LLC. The owner is Dr. Phillips Inc. The location is 1978 Stanholm Way. It's in District 3. The project planner is Michelle Gibbs. This is a conditional use permit filed under CUP 2026. 10,000, this is a conditional use permit to allow a dog run for a new pet facility within 500 feet of a residential use and district. The recommended action is approval of requests subject to conditions of the staff report. Item number three is the 2025 growth indicators report. The applicant is City of Orlando. Location is citywide. District is all. The project planner is Calandra Jones. This is GMP 2026-10,000. This is the annual report to provide 2025 growth indicators as required by the growth management plan, which is also the city's comprehensive plan. And it changes future land use policy LU 1.5.1 or as required by that. The recommended action is approval of the request. Number four is the DTO Outlook Part 3, 2026 Amendment. The applicant is David Barilla, the Executive Director of the Downtown Orlando DDB and CRA. The owner is as several owners as an area location is generally located south of Lake Ivanhoe, north of West Court Street and between Westmoreland Drive and North Summerlin Avenue, including the Camping World Stadium to the west, comprised of sixteen hundred sixty four acres. The district is three, four and five. The project planner is Yolanda Ortiz. This is filed under GMP 2026-1001. This is a request for a determination that the DTO Outlook Part 3, 2026 amendment to the 2020-15 update to the Downtown Orlando Community Redevelopment Area Plan, which includes the DTO action plan updates and the 47 acre area expansion, increasing the plan area to 1,711 acres is in conformity with the city's comprehensive plan. The recommended action is approval of the request. Number five is urbanized disturbed lands map. The applicant is city of Orlando. Location is citywide. The district is all. The project planner is Deidre Oga. This is filed under GMP 2026-1002. This is an amendment to the growth management plan conservation element figure C-8, urbanized disturbed lands to correct the map. The recommended action is approval of the request. Number six is Shadow Ridge Industrial. The applicant is Garth Ritter of Ritter Civil. The owner is Family Investment Company. Location is 5300 Lee Vista Boulevard. The district is in District 2. Project planner is Raquel Lozano. This is filed under MPL 2025-164. This is a master plan request for the development of three new flex-use storage facilities on a vacant lot tolling 15, oh my god, 155,820 square feet. And finally, number seven, Savannah Park Drive Senior Housing. The applicant is William Hockensmith at Thomas & Hutton Engineering. Owner is LN Senior Housing Real Estate, LLC. Location is... 10298 savannah park drive district is in district one project planner is san sean elordi and this is filed in an mpl 2026 10 000 this is a master plan for a five-story 78 dwelling unit senior housing project the recommended action is to furl the request to the next meeting on april 21st that concludes the consent agenda mr chair

13:58Speaker 1

All right. You have heard the consent agenda as presented by Mr. Jason Burton. Can we have a motion to accept item one?

14:10Speaker 7

There's no one in the audience to speak on any of these items besides you. That's correct.

14:18Speaker 1

And that will be item one through six.

14:26Speaker 3

Yes. They're also approving the deferral of number seven. Deferral of seven. Correct.

14:32 – 14:46Speaker 1

Okay. Yes. So motion was properly moved by board member Hall, seconded by board member Bastian. All in favor, unmute your mic and say aye.

14:48 – 15:06Speaker 1

See that there's no nays. Motion passed unanimously. That concludes our consent agenda. Seeing that there's none for the regular agenda, other business, Mr. Paul Lewis will come and give us an appeals update.

15:13 – 17:00Speaker 4

Good morning, Paul Lewis, City Planning Division, Chief Planning Manager. One thing before I get into the appeals update, maybe I was asleep, but I'm not sure if I heard anything about anybody declaring conflicts on the consent. Yeah, we asked for a conflict. Yeah, I did. Okay, perfect. Thank you so much. I just want to make sure it was handled. So we did receive one appeal. from last month, if you remember the 1600 Aaron Avenue, the Brazilian FDA church. And on that one, if you remember the project consisted of two components. The first was a change in feature land use designation from public recreational institutional to residential low intensity. And that was a legislative appeal. And then the second one was the plan development rezoning to convert the former Quest site to a community assembly public benefit use, a church. And that was a quasi-judicial appeal. So on February 20th, the appellant at Cynthia Harris filed a timely legislative and quasi-judicial appeal for both. And a pre-hearing conference has been set for the quasi-judicial for April 9. And the intent is to have the quasi-judicial appeal hearing before the GMP legislative appeal is heard by city council. This allows city council to hear both or hear all of the items related to the case at the same time. So that's all we have right now. We'll let you know as the appeals go through the process, the status of them.

17:00 – 17:21Speaker 1

So, that's it. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Lewis. So, very much welcome your appeals. Seeing that is it for today. Someone make a motion to adjourn the meeting? You don't have to meet up, Charlotte.

17:21Speaker 2

Meeting to try.

17:25Speaker 1

I'll second.

17:27Speaker 1

Okay. Meeting to join at 9.14, 9.15 a.m.

17:52Speaker 8

Yeah, I'm ready for.

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