Lake County (Unincorporated) Planning and Zoning Board — June 3, 2026

On June 3, 2026, the Lake County Planning and Zoning Board takes up a nine-tab docket whose cardinal item is structural: Tab 2, an ordinance dissolving the County's appointed Board of Adjustment effective July 1, 2026, and transferring every variance, waiver, and appeal — including §553.73(5) flood-construction variances — to the elected Board of County Commissioners. The Board of Adjustment was created November 26, 1996; the ordinance repeals LDR §§13.02.00 and 13.03.00 and replaces every "Board of Adjustment" reference with "Board of County Commissioners." County Attorney Melanie Marsh drafted it; the stated rationale is applicant convenience. The same docket sharpens the Rural Conservation open-space mandate (35%–90%, up to 90% in Green Swamp Core), runs density up on Clermont-served corridor land (Hartle Hills, 212 apartments) and down inside the Green Swamp (Tiger Paw, 0.39 DU/acre, 67.1% open space). The PZB recommends; the BCC decides July 14. This is governance consolidation: the quasi-judicial buffer is absorbed, not overruled.