The Hancock Road Coupled System: How a single county-state-private spine moves Minneola's residential growth, Wellness Way's master-plan access, and Clermont's annexation pipeline — without one jurisdiction governing it

Hancock Road runs north-south through Minneola and Clermont, east of US-27. It is variously a Lake County road, a city road within Minneola limits and Clermont limits where annexed, and on its southern end — segments E and F — it is still being built under Lennar / Lake County build-out arrangements tied to the Wellness Way master plan. No single jurisdiction governs the road. Eleven-plus meeting events across the corpus reference it as a residential connector, a commercial spine, a binding capacity constraint, an entitlement condition, an unbuilt segment, and a four-signal Lake County intervention. The two halves never appear in the same hearing record. The corridor lens reads through the joint as a single coupled mechanism that produces residential traffic in Minneola, walkable-commercial discipline at Wellness Way, and entitlement leverage at McKinnon Groves — and the fragmentation of authority is the cause of what the meeting record cannot see.