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 The case transmitted to the April 7, 2026 BCC hearing — where it was withdrawn before the vote.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:
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.
The applicant has institutional or major-developer backing — Lowndes partner billing rates concentrate on substantial entitlements; Love's appearance is a capital-allocation signal.
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.