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Organization · Property owner and applicant for the Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD (Minneola) — the multi-instrument 17.878-acre entitlement at N. Hancock / Citrus Grove Road that the corpus tracks as a cardinal late-cycle South Lake corridor anchor

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 Road intersection in Minneola that advanced to the City Council May 19, 2026 docket after the Planning & Zoning Commission's 4-0 substantive approval on May 4. Represented by Tara Tedrow of Lowndes Drosdick, the project surfaced in the corpus first via the April 6, 2026 Minneola PZC meeting where Commissioners Rose and McCoy moved to table the package — the same NAY pair from the March 2 Whispering Winds 3-2 split. The April tabling generated the corpus's first observed "blocs form at procedural friction, dissolve at substantive vote" calibration data: the bloc that tabled in April did not dissent at substantive vote in May (see watch `citrus-ridge-substantive-vote-may-4`). The April-to-May acreage drift (15.878 → 17.878) and name rebrand (Citrus Grove → Citrus Ridge, distancing the new commercial PUD from the existing Citrus Grove residential PUD on the same road) are observable in the meeting record. The conceptual site plan shows six commercial buildings fronting Citrus Grove Road (one programmed for a gas station) plus a larger mini-storage / warehouse building on the northern edge. The cardinal forward indicator is City Council disposition on May 19.

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First named
2026-04-01
Last active
2026-05-04

What's on the record

Crittenden Howey LLC owns the 17.878-acre parcel at the N. Hancock Road / Citrus Grove Road intersection in Minneola — the parcel that became the Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD after its April 2026 PZC tabling and May 2026 substantive 4-0 approval. The application is a multi-instrument package: annexation (Ord 2026-02), comprehensive plan amendment (Ord 2026-03), rezoning (Ord 2026-02 zoning), and development agreement (Res 2026-01).

The April-to-May acreage drift (15.878 → 17.878 acres) and the project rebrand (Citrus Grove Road Commercial → Citrus Ridge Commercial) are observable in the meeting record. The rebrand distances the new commercial PUD from the existing Citrus Grove residential PUD on the same road — a naming move that itself is corpus-significant (developers actively managing naming overlap with existing entitlements on the same corridor).

The conceptual site plan shows six commercial buildings fronting Citrus Grove Road (one programmed for a gas station) plus a larger mini-storage / warehouse building on the northern edge. The site plan's combination of low-amenity uses (gas station + self-storage / warehouse) intersects two of the corpus's named patterns: the Bellwether Gas Station pattern (Minneola already denied a Hancock/CR-561A gas station 4-0 in September 2025) and the Self-Storage Canary pattern (Lake County PZB's 6-1 Serenoa denial and BCC withdrawal are recent corpus exhibits).

Why this matters for the corpus

The Citrus Ridge case is the cardinal late-cycle South Lake corridor entitlement at the N. Hancock / Citrus Grove Road corridor cluster — a node forming with three concurrent applications:

  • Citrus Grove (residential PUD) — existing Tara Tedrow / Lowndes representation, the residential parcel adjacent to Citrus Ridge
  • Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD — the Crittenden Howey property; 17.878 acres now substantively approved at PZC
  • Camp Lake Industrial Park — preliminary plat on the same May 4 Minneola PZC agenda

The corridor cluster — residential PUD + commercial PUD + industrial subdivision within a 12-month window at the same intersection — is the corpus's clearest example of a deliberate multi-use spine forming through coordinated developer activity. Crittenden Howey's role as the commercial PUD property owner makes it part of the structural reading.

The watch resolution at citrus-ridge-substantive-vote-may-4 documents the case's most operationally important calibration finding: the Rose/McCoy bloc that tabled the package in April 2026 did not dissent at substantive vote in May 2026. The pattern reads — blocs form at procedural friction, dissolve at substantive vote — is now corpus-tested data.

Forward indicators

  • City Council disposition on May 19, 2026 — the cardinal next observation; substantive vote on all four instruments
  • Site plan stage friction — the gas station component in the conceptual site plan intersects the Bellwether Gas Station pattern; site plan review will test whether Minneola PZC's September 2025 Hancock/CR-561A denial template re-applies
  • Self-storage / warehouse component — the mini-storage / warehouse building on the northern edge intersects the Self-Storage Canary pattern; corridor-protection posture at site plan stage is the next observable signal
  • Additional N. Hancock / Citrus Grove Road corridor applications — if a fourth application surfaces (school, public infrastructure, additional commercial), the corridor-cluster pattern strengthens

Connected entities

  • Tara L. Tedrow, Esq. — applicant counsel of record. See /entities/tara-tedrow.
  • Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. — the law firm. See /entities/lowndes-drosdick-doster-kantor-reed.
  • Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD — the project. See /entities/citrus-ridge-commercial-pud.
  • Citrus Ridge Substantive Vote watch (resolved) — the corpus's first observed "blocs form at procedural friction, dissolve at substantive vote" exhibit. See /watch/citrus-ridge-substantive-vote-may-4.
  • Minneola, Florida — the place dossier. See /places/minneola-florida.
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