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 projects each city most resists and the projects each city most desires. Tara L. Tedrow runs the Minneola portfolio: she represented the Pointe Grande Live Local Act application that Minneola could not legally refuse (January 2024), then returned to represent the Hills of Minneola Town Center / Crooked Can anchor variance package (January 2025), then the Camp Lake industrial park (December 2024), and most recently the Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD (April-May 2026). Jonathan Huels represented Plaza Collina PUD amendments in Clermont (January 2024). Logan Opsahl handled Pointe Grande Live Local representation. McGregor Love represented Silver Lake Commons in Leesburg. Lowndes is the regional attorney spine — the nervous system that translates state preemption pressure and capital-allocation strategy into the cases that arrive at municipal P&Z dais.
What's on the record
Lowndes attorneys appear across three South Lake municipalities representing developer applicants:
Tara L. Tedrow — the firm's most-cited lawyer in the corpus. Her cases run the spectrum of Minneola's identity:
- Pointe Grande Live Local Act application — January 2024 — the project Minneola could not legally refuse under FS 166.04151 state preemption
- Camp Lake industrial park — December 2024 — first appearance of the eastern industrial spine
- Hills of Minneola City Center / Crooked Can architectural variances — January 2025 — the four-approval meeting that ended six consecutive tablings of the Hills Town Center
- Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD (formerly Citrus Grove Road Commercial) — April 2026 (tabled) and May 2026 (substantive) — the 15.878-to-17.878-acre commercial PUD at the N. Hancock / Citrus Grove Road corridor node
Jonathan Huels — Plaza Collina PUD amendment, Clermont, January 2024.
Logan Opsahl — Pointe Grande Live Local Act co-representation, Minneola.
McGregor Love — Silver Lake Commons, Leesburg.
Why this matters for the corpus
Tedrow's portfolio is the single most-revealing attorney pattern in the South Lake corpus. The same lawyer represents the project Minneola most resented (Pointe Grande, the forced-density Live Local case) and the projects Minneola most welcomed (Crooked Can / Hills Town Center, the anchor that ended six tablings). She also represents Crittenden Howey at the Citrus Ridge case where the Rose / McCoy bloc tabled the package in April. This is the regional attorney spine: Lowndes translates state policy pressure and capital-allocation strategy into the entitlement cases that arrive at the dais. Whether a municipality approves with stipulations or rejects with motion-floor procedural friction, Lowndes is often the firm carrying the file. The pattern reveals the law firm as the cross-city operating layer — the structure inside which developers, cities, and state preemption converge.