68 named entities. The smallest citable unit of authority.
Every actor, organization, ordinance, and project the South Lake County corpus references — promoted to first-class artifacts. Each carries typed schema (Person / Organization / Legislation / Project) and bidirectional links to every meeting, brief, watch, and pattern where the entity appears. The implicit entity graph rendered as navigable surfaces.
Anita Geraci-Carver
Anita Geraci-Carver served as Groveland City Attorney through the city's regulatory architecture buildout — the period when Groveland authored the Eco-Agrarian Lifestyle Code (October 2025) and…
Commissioner Robert Bain
Commissioner Robert Bain assumed the Clermont Planning & Zoning Commission Chair in November 2024 after Chair Krzyminski's departure and held the chair through 2025. Bain shifted the board's posture…
Commissioner Ted Bowersox
Commissioner Ted Bowersox is the operating engine of the Leesburg Planning Commission's anti-density-without-fit denial bloc. Bowersox authored the motions to deny both Lake Bright-Brighurst comp…
Chairperson Denise Calderon
Chairperson Denise Calderon led the Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission's transition from Chairman Trujillo through the first months of 2026. Calderon began as Alternate Commissioner across 2024…
Commissioner Cramer
Commissioner Cramer is the Clermont board's form-based-code champion and the explicit naming voice on the regulatory-infrastructure work the board now does. Cramer arrived January 2025 alongside…
Daniel W. Langley
Daniel W. Langley is the equity partner at Fishback Dominick who advises five Central Florida municipalities at once — City Attorney for Longwood and Belle Isle, Deputy City Attorney for Winter…
Chair Zach Decker
Chair Zach Decker leads the Groveland Planning & Zoning Board through the regulatory architecture buildout. Decker arrived as a board member by April 2024, was elected Vice-Chair on November 7, 2024…
Commissioner Hoisington
Commissioner Hoisington arrived on the Clermont Planning & Zoning Commission January 7, 2025 with Cramer and May — the three commissioners that re-shaped the Clermont board's posture. At her very…
Commissioner Jay Connell
Jay Connell is the District 3 (Seat 3) Commissioner on the Leesburg City Commission. He cast the lone NAY in the 4-1 April 13, 2026 vote approving Hanover Land Company's Lake Bright-Brighurst PUD —…
Jimmy D. Crawford, Esq.
Jimmy Crawford is the applicant attorney whose corpus appearances pattern most cleanly into the City-County Jurisdictional Friction structure. He represents applicants seeking County PZB approval…
Mayor Keith Keogh
Mayor Keith Keogh chaired the Groveland Planning & Zoning Board through October 2024 and resigned mid-term to take the mayoral seat. The chair-to-mayor transition occurred at the November 7, 2024 PZB…
Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey functions as the Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission's unpaid engineering review bureau. Carey is a Minneola resident at 20237 Sugarloaf Mountain Road who attends virtually every…
Commissioner May
Commissioner May is the Clermont board's Strong Towns and form-based-code pole. May co-founded Strong Towns Clermont and brought that orientation onto the PZC at his January 7, 2025 first meeting,…
Commissioner William McCoy
Commissioner William McCoy is the longest-tenured voice on the Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission and the second half of the 2026 emerging dissent bloc with Rose. McCoy has voted across the corpus…
McGregor Love, Esq.
McGregor Love is the second Lowndes Drosdick partner whose presence the corpus has tracked across multiple corridors. He represents applicants at municipal-and-county boards across the South Lake…
Commissioner Shaun Robertson
Commissioner Shaun Robertson is the swing within the Leesburg Planning Commission's denial bloc. Robertson seconded both January 22, 2026 motions to DENY Lake Bright-Brighurst — the 3-3 ties that…
Commissioner Ken Rose
Commissioner Ken Rose is half of the emerging dissent bloc on the Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission. Rose voted NAY with McCoy on the March 2, 2026 Whispering Winds Amenity Center 3-2 split — the…
Vice-Chair Nathaniel Sanders
Vice-Chair Nathaniel Sanders sits as the most consistent approval pole on the Leesburg Planning Commission. Sanders made the January 22, 2026 motion to APPROVE Cronin-Dewey Robbins SSCP-25-813 — the…
Scott A. Gerken
Scott A. Gerken is the City Attorney named on Minneola's June 1, 2026 ordinance signature blocks — Ord 2026-05 (the data-center text amendment), the CR-455 annexation to Agriculture, and the related…
Chair Tim Sennett
Chair Tim Sennett is the governance-minded approve-with-conditions pole on the Leesburg Planning Commission. Sennett was re-elected Chair 5-0 on January 22, 2026 by a Bowersox-Robertson…
Seth B. Claytor
Seth B. Claytor is the Boswell & Dunlap LLP partner (Bartow) who became interim Haines City Attorney during the city's one-cycle leadership turnover, while continuing as Assistant City Attorney for…
Tara L. Tedrow, Esq.
Tara L. Tedrow is the Lowndes Drosdick partner whose presence the corpus has been tracking across two corridors simultaneously — the cross-corridor legal-counsel signal that institutional capital…
Commissioner Tidona
Commissioner Tidona is the Clermont board's traffic-safety and environmental-scrutiny pole. Tidona completed Ohio State University's six-week Planning and Zoning Basics certification in mid-2025 and…
Chairman Oscar Trujillo
Chairman Oscar Trujillo led the Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission through 2024 and most of 2025 in the operating mode the corpus now identifies as "shape, don't deny." Trujillo was elected Chair…
Zane Ertel
Zane Ertel is the City of Clermont's Development Liaison and the single staff voice who, on April 7, 2026, said the quiet part out loud. At the Planning & Zoning Commission hearing on the Kohl's…
Advent Health
Advent Health is the healthcare system anchoring two institutional-grade investments in the South Lake corpus. In Minneola, an 80-bed hospital with 24-hour emergency room opened in late 2025 — a town…
Blackfin Partners Investments, Inc.
Blackfin Partners Investments, Inc. is the Palm Beach Gardens private-equity developer building Minneola Commercial — a 21.55-acre grocery-anchored center on the west side of US-27 between Vino Road…
Bret Jones, P.A.
Bret Jones, P.A. is the planning consultancy and land-use law practice whose work appears across three South Lake municipalities — Minneola, Groveland, and Clermont — most often attached to projects…
Clermont Planning & Zoning Commission
The Clermont Planning & Zoning Commission is the municipal board governing the city's land-use entitlement reviews. Across 2024 and 2025, the Commission transformed structurally — three new…
Crittenden Howey LLC
Crittenden Howey LLC is the property-owner entity behind the Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD (formerly Citrus Grove Road Commercial) — the 17.878-acre commercial PUD at the N. Hancock Road / Citrus Grove…
DPZ CoDesign
DPZ CoDesign is the planning consultancy retained by the City of Clermont for the downtown form-based code engagement that compounded with the Wellness Way Design Standards as Clermont's defensive…
EPG Sunstone Holdings LLC (Eisenhower Property Group)
EPG Sunstone Holdings LLC is the property owner and applicant behind Brighthill — the largest single Village annexation in the South Lake corpus. It is the land-holding entity of Eisenhower Property…
Groveland Planning & Zoning Board
The Groveland Planning & Zoning Board is the municipal board governing land-use entitlement reviews for the South Lake city most actively coding its own identity. Across 2024 and 2025, the Board…
Hanover Land Company
Hanover Land Company is the developer behind the Lake Bright-Brighurst Planned Unit Development — a 202-acre, 502-home subdivision on County Road 33 at Leesburg's western edge. Hanover's $2.3 million…
Lake County Board of County Commissioners
The Lake County Board of County Commissioners is the county-level governing authority whose decisions co-author the four municipalities' development outcomes. The BoCC controls arterial roads,…
Lake County Schools District
Lake County Schools is the public school district whose enrollment capacity operates as the unstated constraint on residential development across the four South Lake municipalities. The District does…
Leesburg City Commission
The Leesburg City Commission is the elected governing body of the City of Leesburg — five district commissioners under a commission-manager form of government, electing a Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tem from…
Leesburg Planning Commission
The Leesburg Planning Commission is the municipal planning board governing the city's land-use entitlement reviews. Through 2024-2026, the Commission held a Marshall–Carter–Bowersox–Robertson denial…
Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor Reed, P.A.
Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor Reed is the Orlando-based law firm whose attorneys appear across three South Lake municipalities — Clermont, Leesburg, and Minneola — representing simultaneously the…
LPG (Mike Rankin / Heather Urwiller)
LPG is the South Lake developer most legible as a strategy-pivot specimen. The firm's principals — Mike Rankin and Heather Urwiller — appear in the corpus across two cities and four distinct…
Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission
The Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission is the municipal board governing land-use entitlement reviews for a city of 20,000 absorbing a development portfolio that would challenge a municipality five…
Pulte Homes (Aaron Struckmeyer)
Pulte Homes is the national homebuilder operating two institutional-scale 55+ active-adult communities in the South Lake corpus. Mar-Jo Pines in Leesburg — 402 units, approved 6-0 in February 2024 —…
PulteGroup
PulteGroup is the national homebuilder behind Aquarama — a 288-acre, $51.8M-cash, ~1,050-unit short-term-rental resort community in Davenport at US-17/92 and Ernie Caldwell Boulevard, the firm's…
RCE Consultants, LLC (Larry Poliner, P.E.)
RCE Consultants, LLC is the civil engineering firm of record for the Langley Industrial Park annexation into the City of Groveland — Lot 5 on Republic Drive, 6.24 acres, heard by Groveland's Planning…
Rutland International, Inc. (rollformerusa.com)
Rutland International, Inc. is the Orlando-based property owner behind Groveland's second confirmed three-ordinance industrial annexation. Headquartered at 10895 Rocket Blvd, Orlando, FL 32824 and…
St. Johns River Water Management District
The St. Johns River Water Management District is the regional water authority whose Consumptive Use Permit conditions and wetland-classification rulings function as the binding constraint on South…
Strong Towns Clermont
Strong Towns Clermont is the local civic advocacy group co-founded by Commissioner May and launched at a public meeting on August 29, 2025. The organization aligns with the national Strong Towns…
Clermont Ordinance 2026-013 — Certified Recovery Residences
Clermont Ordinance 2026-013 adds a new article under Chapter 125 (Zoning) of the Land Development Code to formalize the review and approval process for reasonable-accommodation requests for certified…
Florida Live Local Act (CS/SB 102, 2023)
The Florida Live Local Act (CS/SB 102, 2023; subsequent 2024 amendments) preempts local zoning, density, and height controls on qualifying affordable-housing projects in commercial, industrial, and…
Groveland Ordinance 2025-25 — Agrarian Code
Groveland Ordinance 2025-25 adopts a new Section 5.6 of the Community Development Code, allowing agrarian uses within certain zoning districts including parcels in the Green Swamp Area of Critical…
Minneola Ordinance 2024-10 — Live Local Act Regulations
Minneola Ordinance 2024-10 (March 2024) is the most aggressive defensive ordinance against the Florida Live Local Act in the corridor. Adopted directly in response to Pointe Grande — the 300-unit…
Florida Senate Bill 180 (2025)
Florida Senate Bill 180 (2025) freezes municipal land-development codes at their August 2024 strictness. Any code amendment more restrictive or burdensome on development adopted after that…
Florida SB 954 — Certified Recovery Residences (2025)
Florida SB 954 (signed June 25, 2025; effective July 1, 2025) amends Florida Statute § 397.487 to require local governments to formalize and streamline the review and approval process for reasonable-…
Wellness Way Design Standards (2022)
Wellness Way Design Standards (Clermont, 2022) is the cardinal pre-line code in the South Lake corpus — adopted before SB 180's August 2024 retroactive line, therefore protected under the statute and…
Brighthill Phase 2
Brighthill Phase 2 is a 147.47-acre voluntary annexation into the City of Groveland — the largest single Village rezoning in the South Lake corpus. EPG Sunstone Holdings LLC ran the standard…
Camp Lake Industrial Park — Hills of Minneola
Camp Lake Industrial Park is a light-industrial / research-park development inside the Hills of Minneola PUD, on Turkey Farm Road off Citrus Grove Road, north of Florida's Turnpike in Minneola. The…
Christopher C. Ford Commerce Park
The Christopher C. Ford Commerce Park is Lake County's largest industrial park — a county-developed employment center on U.S. Highway 27 at the crossroads of State Road 19 and Florida's Turnpike,…
Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD
Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD is a three-ordinance entitlement package (Ordinance 2026-02 annexation/rezoning, Ordinance 2026-03 comp plan amendment to General Commercial, Resolution 2026-01…
Groveland Community Development Code V5
The Community Development Code Version 5 is Groveland's multi-year land-development-code rewrite — the umbrella project that encodes the city's "Eco-Agrarian Lifestyle" identity into enforceable…
Hartwood Marsh Road Widening
The Hartwood Marsh Road widening is a Lake County capital infrastructure project that converts Hartwood Marsh Road from two lanes to four — from Regency Hills Drive down to US-27 — with new sidewalks…
Hills of Minneola Town Center
Hills of Minneola Town Center is the $300 million mixed-use program anchoring Minneola's Turnpike Interchange district — the project that converts the city's identity from bedroom community to…
Kohl's at 12305 US-27 — Clermont Voluntary Annexation
Kohl's at 12305 US Highway 27 is a 15.9-acre voluntary annexation of an existing department store from unincorporated Lake County into the City of Clermont. The Planning & Zoning Commission…
Lake Bright-Brighurst PUD
Lake Bright-Brighurst (LSCP-25-774 + PUD-25-775) is a 202-acre, 502-home Planned Unit Development on County Road 33 at Leesburg's western rural edge. Hanover Land Company structured the case with a…
Langley Industrial Park — Republic Drive Annexation
Langley Industrial Park is a 6.24-acre voluntary annexation into the City of Groveland — Lot 5 on Republic Drive at the southwest corner of Democracy Street and Republic Drive. The applicant is…
Olympus — Clermont Sports/Wellness/Lifestyle Community
Olympus is Clermont's $2 billion sports, wellness, and lifestyle master-planned community on Wellness Way — the cardinal anchor of the Southern Transformation thesis and the largest single…
Saxon Industrial Park — C.R. 561 Landscape-Buffer Variance
Saxon Industrial Park is a small office/warehouse project on the north side of C.R. 561 in Minneola, between Causey Road and Florida's Turnpike, owned by James Gillman since 2011. On April 6, 2026…
Wellness Way Master Plan
Wellness Way is a 15,500-acre master-planned development in Clermont — the largest entitlement project in the South Lake corpus and the cardinal evidence of the corridor's Southern Transformation…
Whispering Winds PUD — Sugarloaf Mountain Amenity Center
Whispering Winds is a residential subdivision inside Minneola's 1,420-acre Sugarloaf Mountain PUD — 205 single-family lots on ~54.7 acres at the corner of Hancock Road and County Road 455, bought by…