The Filter: How the same six commissioners produced opposite votes eight weeks apart — and what that tells us about Leesburg's actual posture

Leesburg's Planning Commission has a high-resolution density filter that discriminates by FIT, not by gross density. On January 22, 2026, the same six commissioners that hold the corpus's denial bloc killed the 202-acre Lake Bright-Brighurst PUD on a 3-3 tie even with $2.3 million of developer-funded CR-470 / CR-48 / CR-33 intersection capital — and ran a 4-2 denial of the 9.26-acre Cronin-Dewey Robbins SPUD after Vice-Chair Sanders' approve motion died for lack of a second. Eight weeks later, on March 19, 2026, the same panel approved both the Mispah Street Assisted Living Facility CUP and the 2007 Butler Street Certified Recovery Residence CUP 6-0 — adaptive reuse of existing R-2 buildings for elder care. Same code. Same staff. Same commissioners. Opposite outcomes. Bowersox, Robertson, O'Kelley voted YES on March 19 after voting to deny on January 22.