[Watch] Clermont DPZ CoDesign Comprehensive Plan adoption

Clermont's Comprehensive Plan update has been in active
drafting under DPZ CoDesign — Andrés Duany's planning
practice, also the author of the Wellness Way Design
Standards — with 1,500+ community survey responses captured
through Strong Towns Clermont's engagement cycle, driven in
part by Commissioner May's advocacy. The plan carries the
downtown form-based code, parking reform, and pedestrian-
orientation framework that the Bain-era Planning Commission
has been signaling toward across 2025-2026. Council adoption
converts the Professionalizers framing from case-by-case
discretion (V3 Capital denial, self-storage C-2 moratorium,
Wellness Way design standards enforcement) to enforceable
code-level architecture. The cardinal structural-identity
event of Clermont's regulatory evolution and the test of
whether DPZ-grade planning rigor holds politically through
the Council adoption gauntlet — the regional-model question
that decides whether form-based discipline scales beyond
Wellness Way greenfield to downtown retrofit.