City of Apopka Planning Commission: September 22, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Location: Apopka City Hall Commission Chambers; live-streamed on the City of Apopka YouTube channel

Records note: This record carries the published agenda. Outcomes, votes and speaker counts belong to the minutes, which sit outside this reading; every item below is scheduled.

Agenda Items

Public Hearing 1: Ordinance No. 3156, Rezoning/KPI Master Plan, Saddlebrook Meadows

• Type: Rezoning and Master Plan (quasi-judicial)
• Case Number: Ordinance No. 3156
• Location: 3585 and 3603 Golden Gem Road
• Applicant: Geoff Summitt, P.E.
• Request: Rezoning/KPI Master Plan for Saddlebrook Meadows; maximum of 5 dwelling units per acre; 55 single-family residential units
• Project Manager: Bobby Howell, AICP
• Status: Scheduled

Public Hearing 2: Hogshead Industrial SPX

• Type: Other (quasi-judicial; the agenda labels the project "Hogshead Industrial SPX")
• Location: 4212 Hogshead Road
• Applicant: Han Vaknin (owner: Hogshead Investment Partnership, LTD)
• Request: Hogshead Industrial SPX; density N/A
• Project Manager: Amer Hamza
• Status: Scheduled

Public Hearing 3: Special Exception, Outdoor Storage as a Principal Use for Overnight Parking of Commercial Vehicles, 300 S Bradshaw Road

• Type: Special Exception Permit (quasi-judicial)
• Location: 300 S Bradshaw Road
• Applicant: Adam Biery (owner: Carolina Textiles)
• Request: Special Exception for Outdoor Storage as a Principal Use for Overnight Parking of Commercial Vehicles in the I-L (Light Industrial) Zoning District
• Current Zoning: I-L (Light Industrial); Future Land Use Industrial; existing use vacant
• Acreage: 6.61 +/- acres
• Project Manager: Jun Sohn, Ph.D.
• Status: Scheduled

Site Plan 1: Major Development Plan, Saddlebrook Meadows

• Type: Site Plan (Major Development Plan; quasi-judicial)
• Location: 3585 and 3603 Golden Gem Road
• Applicant: Geoff Summitt, P.E.
• Request: Major Development Plan for Saddlebrook Meadows; maximum of 5 dwelling units per acre; 55 single-family residential units
• Project Manager: Bobby Howell, AICP
• Status: Scheduled

Site Plan 2: Major Development Plan, Paulucci Acres Pod 1 AB & 4 (Phase 1)

• Type: Site Plan (Major Development Plan; quasi-judicial)
• Location: Southeast Corner of W Ponkan Road and Vick Road
• Applicant: Luke Classon (owner: Paulucci Acres LLC)
• Request: Major Development Plan for 502 Single Family Homes; density 3.5 Units/Acre
• Project Manager: Amer Hamza
• Status: Scheduled

Discussion Item 1: Land Development Code Workshop

• Type: Other (workshop discussion)
• Status: Scheduled for discussion

Public Hearings Summary

Three public hearings and two site plans are listed, all quasi-judicial. Speakers on a hearing item file a white Intent to Speak form and receive four minutes each under Resolution No. 2026-38. Speaker counts and positions belong to the minutes.

Key Signals

• A first phase of Paulucci Acres comes forward at 502 homes. The Major Development Plan for Pod 1 AB & 4 (Phase 1) lists 502 Single Family Homes at 3.5 Units/Acre at the southeast corner of W Ponkan Road and Vick Road, with Luke Classon as applicant for owner Paulucci Acres LLC. The Planning Commission took up Ordinance 3147, the Paulucci Acres PD Rezoning and Master Plan, on December 9, 2025 (2025-12-meeting-PC.md).
• Saddlebrook Meadows arrives as a rezoning and site plan on one night. Ordinance No. 3156 (Rezoning/KPI Master Plan) and the Major Development Plan both cover 55 single-family residential units at a maximum of 5 dwelling units per acre on 3585 and 3603 Golden Gem Road.
• Overnight commercial vehicle parking is proposed as a principal use in Light Industrial. The 300 S Bradshaw Road special exception seeks outdoor storage for overnight parking of commercial vehicles on 6.61 +/- acres of vacant I-L (Light Industrial) land.

Raw Notes

• Routine items: approval of the August 11, 2026 Planning Commission minutes.
• This agenda cites Resolution No. 2026-38 and allows four minutes per speaker. The City Commission's September 2, 2026 consent agenda carried Resolution No. 2026-38 (2026-09-agenda-CC.md); the Planning Commission's August 11, 2026 agenda allowed three minutes under Resolution No. 2025-19 (2026-08-agenda-PC.md).
• The Land Development Code Workshop was scoped on the August 11, 2026 agenda with three topics: data center definitions, open spaces and commercial development (2026-08-agenda-PC.md).
• The first Saddlebrook Meadows listing prints "55 single-fmaily residential units"; the site plan listing prints "55 single-family residential units."
• The owners of the Golden Gem Road parcels are listed on the agenda as individuals and are left out here.
• Source: agenda PDF, CivicClerk apopkafl, event 1517.