The Rose/McCoy Hypothesis: Whether two consecutive procedural moves at the gate of Minneola's biggest pending commercial PUD are a forming faction or coincidence under selective resolution

Minneola's Planning & Zoning Commission has been near-unanimous through 2024 and 2025. On March 2, 2026 — Whispering Winds Amenity Center, an in-PUD pool and cabana with five environmental conditions stacked — the body split 3-2. Rose and McCoy dissented. Five weeks later, on April 6, 2026, Commissioner Rose moved and Commissioner McCoy seconded the motion to table the entire Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD package — three items, 15.878 acres, Tedrow / Lowndes representation, the corridor's biggest pending commercial decision — preventing substantive hearing. Two consecutive meetings, the same pair at the gate of the corridor's biggest pending case. The hypothesis under formation is that the Rose/McCoy bloc is a substantive faction operating on a property-rights-vs-condition-stacking axis. The May 4, 2026 substantive vote on Citrus Ridge — the rebrand of Citrus Grove with acreage revised upward to 17.878 — is the test. A substantive NAY confirms the faction. A YES vote restores the prior consensus mode and reads the prior moves as procedural courtesy plus turf-and-lighting skepticism on a small case.