Commissioner Cramer

The naming-the-policy voice

Cramer's most distinctive corpus contribution is naming the policy explicitly on the record. The March 3, 2026 hearing on Ordinance 2026-013 — the Certified Recovery Residences text amendment — was the cleanest exhibit. Cramer framed the policy: legal and moral obligation under state and federal law, ordinance engineered to comply while preserving enforcement authority over life-safety, building, parking, and property-maintenance. The framing was strikingly forward; most cities reactively litigate this. Clermont built procedure first. Cramer named what the city was doing while it was doing it.

The form-based-code champion

Cramer arrived January 2025 alongside Hoisington and May with three new commissioners reshaping the Clermont board. He championed form-based zoning for downtown across his first reports — pushed back on parking-exempt categories, joined Tidona on infrastructure and life-safety concerns, criticized City Council's retroactive flag-display code amendment as undermining planning-process integrity. Cramer's pattern is procedural-discipline-aware: the planning process should produce the rules, not be rewritten to accommodate non-conforming installations.

The dark-sky and activation frames

On the October 7, 2025 Olympus PUD master signage plan vote (4-1), Cramer praised the dark-sky lighting approach and hoped Clermont would adopt similar standards citywide. On the April 7, 2026 Wahlburgers food-truck CUP vote (7-0), Cramer endorsed the activation framing — "food vendors are common at stores like Home Depot and Lowe's in other areas." The pattern reads through the form-based-code lens: lighting standards as a community amenity; food-truck activation as a downtown-readiness signal. The frames are the bridge between the new commissioners' Strong-Towns orientation and the comp-plan-update direction the board now navigates.