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 (US-27), SR-429 Western Beltway, and Leesburg / North Lake corridors — a cross-corridor practice scope structurally parallel to Tara Tedrow's, confirming that Lowndes operates as the corpus's single most-concentrated developer-counsel firm across at least two regulatory corridors. His four documented corpus exhibits span Leesburg (Silver Lake Commons, March 2024), Ocoee (Walmart Neighborhood Market at Ocoee Village Center, October 2025 — a Bellwether Gas Station counter-exhibit), Lake County (Unincorporated) (Serenoa Self-Storage PUD Amendment, March 2026 — the Self-Storage Canary cardinal exhibit that ultimately withdrew before the BCC vote), and Lake County (Unincorporated) again across multiple agricultural and tower cases. His representation calendar is the corpus's clearest two-attorney evidence that Lowndes operates as a cross-corridor regulatory market.
Background
McGregor Love is a Florida land-use attorney practicing at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. — the Orlando-based regional firm. He is the second Lowndes partner whose corpus appearances pattern across multiple corridors, the structural complement to Tara Tedrow's Minneola–Apopka cross-corridor practice.
Three corridor exhibits
Leesburg (March 2024) — Silver Lake Commons FLU Amendment. Love represented an applicant changing 10.31 acres from Institutional to General Commercial on a parcel north of US Highway 441 and west of College Drive. The case was procedurally clean — a routine FLU amendment in a city where applicant counsel quality matters more than in cities with denial blocs.
Ocoee (October 2025) — Ocoee Village Center New Grocery + Fuel. Love represented the applicant for the Walmart Neighborhood Market large-scale preliminary site plan (LS-2024-011) at Ocoee Village Center, with abandonment and vacation of unimproved rights-of-way along North Lakewood Avenue and Clarcona Ocoee Road. The Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval 5-0. The case is structurally a Bellwether Gas Station counter-exhibit — grocery-anchored fuel approved at the elected-body level in the same month Clermont denied a standalone gas station (October 2025 7-Eleven 0-5 denial). The pattern's discrimination is grocery-anchored vs residential-gateway, not fuel itself.
Lake County (Unincorporated) (March 2026) — Serenoa PUD Amendment. Love represented WMG Development's application to amend the Serenoa PUD to allow a 120,000 sq ft, four-story (75 ft tall) self-storage facility on 16.64 acres inside the Wellness Way Area Plan. The Lake County PZB recommended denial 6-1, with 14 in-person opposition speakers and a 700-signature electronic petition entering the record. Love argued the project met existing PUD height standards (which would allow 75-ft buildings by right) and that self-storage generates "among the lowest off-site impact compared to any commercial use." The case transmitted to the April 7, 2026 BCC hearing — where it was withdrawn before the vote. The withdrawal is the corpus's first observed withdrawal-anticipating-denial lifecycle stage of the Self-Storage Canary pattern. See watch /watch/lake-uninc-bcc-serenoa-april-7.
What his representation signals
When Love appears on an application:
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Lowndes Drosdick is the firm of record — and the Cross-Corridor Legal-Counsel Network pattern's structural mechanism (institutional capital reading multiple corridors as one regulatory market) is operating. Love's cases extend the pattern's evidence base beyond Tedrow's Minneola–Apopka pair.
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The applicant has institutional or major-developer backing — Lowndes partner billing rates concentrate on substantial entitlements; Love's appearance is a capital-allocation signal.
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The case is procedurally sophisticated — Love's three documented cases each involve multiple regulatory motions (FLU amendment + rezoning at Leesburg; preliminary site plan + ROW abandonment at Ocoee; PUD amendment in a master-planned community at Serenoa). Single-motion routine cases are not the type Lowndes partners typically carry.
Forward indicators
- Love appearances on additional municipal or county dockets through 2026 — each adds to the Cross-Corridor Legal-Counsel Network pattern's exhibit base
- Whether WMG Development re-files the Serenoa self-storage application after a refresh window (the withdrawal does not preclude future filing; Love's representation may carry forward to the refile)
- Whether a third Lowndes partner appears in the corpus — the cross-corridor presence is currently a two-attorney pattern; a third would promote the firm's structural reading from candidate to confirmed institutional thesis
Connected entities
- Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. — the firm. See
/entities/lowndes-drosdick-doster-kantor-reed. - Tara L. Tedrow — the other Lowndes partner whose cross-corridor practice anchors the pattern's first-attorney exhibit. See
/entities/tara-tedrow. - Cross-Corridor Legal-Counsel Network pattern — the structural pattern Love's representation extends. See
/patterns/cross-corridor-legal-counsel-network. - Self-Storage Canary pattern — the pattern Love's Serenoa case crystallized at the County PUD-amendment surface. See
/patterns/self-storage-canary. - BCC Serenoa appellate disposition watch — the resolution record for the Serenoa case. See
/watch/lake-uninc-bcc-serenoa-april-7.
Bidirectional links across the corpus
- Leesburg PC March 2024 — Silver Lake Commons (FLU amendment Institutional → General Commercial)
- Ocoee PZC October 2025 — Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery + fuel at Ocoee Village Center (5-0 approval; Bellwether Gas Station counter-exhibit)
- Lake County PZB March 2026 — Serenoa Self-Storage PUD Amendment (6-1 denial recommendation; the highest-magnitude Self-Storage Canary exhibit)
- Cross-Corridor Legal-Counsel Network pattern (second-partner exhibit)