[Watch] Winter Springs — Next SR-434 gateway commercial application

On October 13, 2025, the Winter Springs City Commission unanimously
approved a Wawa at SR-434 / Tuskawilla Road against joint denial
recommendations from the Planning & Zoning Board and city staff.
The watch tracks the next gateway-commercial application as the
post-Wawa diagnostic: if PZB realigns with the commission's
pro-growth posture, the Commission-Board Philosophical Inversion
pattern has absorbed into a new equilibrium and the bicameral
disagreement signature collapses. If PZB continues recommending
denial and the commission continues overriding, the inversion
is structurally durable and the city has produced a stable,
readable bicameral signature. Either outcome is informative;
the diagnostic resolves which.