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Groveland Planning & Zoning Board — July 9, 2026 agenda

City of Groveland Planning & Zoning Board — July 9, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Not applicable — agenda document; minutes not yet published as of August 8, 2026 Scheduled: 5:00 PM, Thursday, July 9, 2026, E.L. Puryear Building, 243 S. Lake Avenue, Groveland, FL 34736 Virtual access: Watch/listen mode only; no public comment taken virtually. Instructions posted under "public notices" at www.groveland-fl.gov Document: July 9, 2026 P&Z agenda packet PDF (8 pages / 269 KB) — the agenda itself plus the May 7, 2026 minutes attached as the consent item

Listed Attendance (per agenda roster)

  • Board Members: Chairman Zach Decker, Vice-Chairman Robin Hoover, Kerry Lambert, Michael Archer, Brandan Dixon, Marty Proctor, Alisha Kissee, Bill Mathias (non-voting)
  • Other Attendees: Timothy Maslow, Interim City Manager; Andrew Landis, Interim Community & Economic Development Director; DeWayne Jones, Planning & Zoning Division Manager; Alan Booker, Senior Planner; Benjamin Schafer, City Attorney; Maria Ramirez, Recording Secretary

Agenda Items

Item 0: Consent Agenda — Approval of May 7, 2026 Minutes

  • Type: Consent
  • Request: Consideration of approval of the May 7, 2026 Planning & Zoning Board meeting minutes
  • Action: Pending (July 9 meeting)
  • Notable Details: The full May 7, 2026 minutes are attached to this packet at PDF pages 4–8 and are harvested separately as 2026-05-meeting-PZB.md. The consent item runs straight from May 7 to July 9 — no June 2026 meeting is referenced, consistent with the absence of any June row in the CivicEngage P&Z listing.

New Business

None. The agenda carries no ordinances, rezonings, annexations, comprehensive plan amendments, plats, variances, or special exceptions. This is a consent-and-presentation meeting.

Presentations

Presentation A: Lake County Public Schools Update

  • Presenter: Kelly Randall, Executive Director of Facilities & Planning, Lake County Public Schools
  • Substance: Not detailed in the agenda. The June 5, 2025 P&Z meeting carried a comparable Lake County Schools presentation, making this a recurring engagement rather than a one-off.

Presentation B: EAR Update — Utilities Levels of Service Review

  • Type: Evaluation and Appraisal Review (EAR) amendment cycle, Levels of Service series
  • Substance: Not detailed in the agenda. Continues the element-by-element LOS sweep that ran Police and Fire on May 7 and continues with Parks on August 6.

Presentation C: EAR Update — Transportation Levels of Service Review

  • Type: EAR amendment cycle, Levels of Service series
  • Substance: Not detailed in the agenda. Paired with Utilities on the same night, making July 9 a two-element LOS meeting.

Public Hearings Summary

  • Number of speakers: Not applicable (agenda only)
  • Notable: No item on this agenda is noticed as a quasi-judicial public hearing. General Public Comment, Planning & Zoning Board Comments, and Staff Comments are scheduled ahead of adjournment.

Key Signals

  • Groveland's Planning & Zoning Board met in July with nothing to zone — the second empty land-use docket in five months. No ordinance, no rezoning, no annexation, no plat, no variance appears on this agenda; the only action item is approving the previous meeting's minutes. April 2, 2026 was the same shape: consent, a new-member welcome, and three presentations. Set against November 6, 2025, when this board moved nine items including three separate three-ordinance packages, the 2026 pattern is a board whose regulatory throughput has become intermittent — bursts (May 7's Langley package, August 6's Sampey Road package) separated by meetings that are entirely presentation.

  • The comprehensive-plan machinery is running as a Levels of Service audit, one element per meeting. April 2 opened the EAR Amendment Update, May 7 took Police and Fire, July 9 takes Utilities and Transportation, and August 6 takes Parks. Four consecutive meetings, a systematic sweep of the service elements that determine how much development Groveland can legally absorb. The EAR is where the city's capacity numbers get reset, and it is being conducted almost entirely in presentation form rather than through ordinances — which means the substance lives in the minutes, not in the ordinance record.

  • Benjamin Schafer is now the standing City Attorney on the roster. This is his second consecutive agenda listing after appearing in the May 7 minutes, confirming the seat is filled rather than vacant. The three interim titles above him hold: Timothy Maslow as Interim City Manager and Andrew Landis as Interim Community & Economic Development Director both remain "interim" on this roster, unchanged since April.

  • June 2026 produced no Groveland P&Z meeting, and July's moved off the first Thursday. The board's schedule is the first Thursday of the month, which would have put this meeting on July 2; it convened July 9 instead. The consent agenda's jump from May 7 straight to July 9 confirms the June gap is a real skip rather than an unpublished record — as does the CivicEngage 2026 listing, which holds no June row. Two skipped or rescheduled months in a row, against a standing monthly cadence.

  • No CDC V5 item, in the first meeting after SB 180's stated June 2026 expiration. On April 2, City Attorney Anita Geraci-Carver told this board that SB 180 expires June 2026 and that comprehensive plan amendments were frozen under the hurricane state of emergency. The first agenda published after that stated expiration carries no code update, no CDC V5 reading, and no legislative briefing. The adoption window the city has been waiting on opened without a corresponding item on the board's docket.

  • Lake County Public Schools is back in front of the board. School capacity is the constraint that binds residential approvals in south Lake County, and Facilities & Planning appearing directly before the board — rather than through a staff memo — puts concurrency on the record at the same moment the EAR is resetting Levels of Service. Anyone tracking whether Groveland's residential pipeline can clear school concurrency should read the July 9 minutes when they publish.

Raw Notes

  • Source: https://groveland-fl.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-1438, retrieved 2026-08-08 with plain curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" (HTTP 200, 269,179 bytes). No Playwright required. Text extracted with tools/fetch-pdf.py; all 8 pages yielded clean text.
  • Packet structure: page 1 cover, page 2 agenda, page 3 "CONSENT AGENDA" divider, pages 4–8 the May 7, 2026 minutes. There are no staff memos, ordinance texts, maps, or application materials in this packet — consistent with a docket carrying no new business.
  • Board roster spelling on this agenda is "Brandan Dixon"; the May 7 minutes spell it "Brandan Dixion."
  • The July 9, 2026 minutes are not retrievable as of August 8, 2026. They appear on the August 6, 2026 consent agenda but are not embedded anywhere in the 151-page August 6 packet (all pages searched). Under Groveland's established packet-embedding pattern they should surface in the September 2026 agenda packet and be harvested then as 2026-07-meeting-PZB.md.
  • Independent confirmation of the 2026 listing: curl of https://groveland-fl.gov/AgendaCenter/Planning-Zoning-Board-10 returns exactly five 2026 file links — _02052026-1404, _04022026-1417, _05072026-1425, _07092026-1438, _08062026-1447. All are ViewFile/Agenda/; no standalone ViewFile/Minutes/ file exists for 2026. The Feb 5, 2026 entry is a cancellation notice. There is no June 2026 row.
  • Agenda contact for item detail: planning@groveland-fl.gov.

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