[Watch] Clermont's next US-27 voluntary annexation

On April 7, 2026, Clermont's Development Liaison Zane Ertel
named the consolidation strategy on the record at the Kohl's
annexation hearing — use the 15.9-acre site at 12305 US-27 as
a wedge to consolidate adjacent unincorporated commercial
parcels into city jurisdiction. The Planning & Zoning
Commission approved the Kohl's annexation + comp plan +
rezoning package 7-0. The strategy is now operationalized
on the public record; the next parcel is the test of whether
Ertel's named approach produces a second annexation on the
same US-27 frontage. Watch the next three Clermont P&Z
agendas (May, June, July 2026) for an adjacent-parcel
ordinance package using the same annexation + small-scale
comp plan amendment + rezoning template. The cardinal
voluntary-annexation-jurisdictional-tool pattern
confirmation point in the south Lake corpus, and the
leverage signal Lake County BoCC will likely contest.