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Kissimmee Planning Advisory Board — June 17, 2026 minutes

City of Kissimmee Planning Advisory Board — June 17, 2026

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Yes (6 of 7 members present) Duration: 6:00 PM – 6:35 PM (35 minutes) Location: Kissimmee City Hall, Commission Chambers, 101 Church Street

Attendance

  • Present: Chairperson Robert Bussiere, Board Member Lynda Roth, Board Member Thomas Kapp, Board Member Javin Lopez, Board Member Raymond Sanchez, Board Member Martin Levert (first appearance in the harvested record)
  • Absent: Board Member Jon Arguello
  • Staff Present: Doug Etheredge (Assistant Director), Ryan Altizer (Senior Planner), Courtney Harris (Planner II), Kayla Smith (Planning Technician), Junellyx Cartagena (Administrative Assistant II), Kalanit Oded (City Attorney)

Alex Alemi no longer appears on the roster. He is listed neither present nor absent; the seven named seats are Bussiere, Roth, Kapp, Lopez, Sanchez, Levert and Arguello. Alemi presided as Vice Chairman four weeks earlier.

Prior minutes approved: May 6, 2026 PAB minutes 6-0 (moved Roth, seconded Sanchez); May 20, 2026 PAB minutes 6-0 (moved Lopez, seconded Roth).

Agenda Items

Item 4.A: CU-26-0008 — Multi-use conditional use, 617 N. John Young Parkway — APPROVED

  • Type: Conditional Use with Site Plan Waiver
  • Case Number: CU-26-0008
  • Location: 617 N. John Young Parkway
  • Applicant: Represented at the May 20 hearing by Jeff Wolf, 117B Broadway, Kissimmee
  • Request: Establish child care, office, retail, restaurant, business services and personal services as approved uses on the property, giving the owner flexibility as future tenants are secured.
  • Current Zoning: Neighborhood Open (T4-O); Future Land Use Mixed-Use Downtown (MU-D), Medical Campus sub-area
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Acreage: [not available]
  • Staff Recommendation: Approve with 7 conditions, as presented May 20, 2026
  • Action: Approved
  • Vote: 6-0 (moved Sanchez, seconded Roth). AYE: Bussiere, Roth, Kapp, Lopez, Sanchez, Levert.
  • Conditions: The published record does not state whether the seven staff-recommended conditions were attached; the motion is recorded simply as "a motion to Approve." The conditions as recommended on May 20 were: approval of the six use categories; uses limited by total parking provided, per LDC § 14-7-22 Table 7-2 and ADA requirements; parking calculations required with every business license and building permit; child care subject to LDC § 14-6-37; any future development or expansion requiring a conditional use amendment and Form-Based Code compliance; a restriping and repaving plan approved before any license or permit; and a north-boundary landscape buffer of a 6-foot solid fence, hedge and understory trees.
  • Notable Discussion: None recorded. The item carried as Old Business after the applicant requested a continuance under board questioning on May 20 and the June 3 meeting was cancelled for lack of quorum. The item passed unanimously in a 35-minute meeting with no recorded discussion, four weeks after the applicant withdrew it from a vote.

Public Hearings Summary

  • Number of speakers: 0 — Item 4.A was a noticed public hearing carried over from May 20. No applicant representative and no members of the public are recorded as speaking.
  • General sentiment: No opposition recorded.
  • Key concerns: None raised.

Key Signals

  • The blanket six-use conditional use at 617 N. John Young Parkway passed 6-0, with no recorded discussion, on a board Alex Alemi had left. On May 20 Alemi questioned the applicant and staff until the applicant asked for a continuance. On June 17 the same item cleared unanimously in a meeting that ran 35 minutes and recorded not one substantive exchange. The property owner now holds pre-approval for child care, office, retail, restaurant, business service and personal service uses without returning to the board for each tenant.

  • Alex Alemi is off the Planning Advisory Board. The Vice Chair elected in November 2025 — who forced the officer election, filed the Ordinance #25-14 procedural-violation motion, created Kissimmee.fyi to publish notices, put three citywide code amendments on public notice, and won 4-1 adoption of board-initiated recommendation procedures six weeks earlier — is not on the June 17 roster, present or absent. Martin Levert takes the seat. No departure, resignation or appointment is noted anywhere in the published record. The board's entire reform agenda ran through one volunteer, and the corpus contains no evidence any of it survives him.

  • June 3 was cancelled for lack of quorum, and it was the meeting this item had been continued to. The applicant asked on May 20 for a continuance to June 3; the City Clerk posted a cancellation notice reading "Due to a lack of a quorum, The Planning Advisory Board Meeting for June 3, 2026 is Cancelled." The item slipped two more weeks. Kissimmee's quorum failures do not just delay the board's calendar — they delay applicants' entitlements, and they were the stated grounds in August 2025 for bypassing the board entirely on a comprehensive plan amendment.

  • The board that emerged from turnover is a consensus board. Six of seven present, both minutes sets and the substantive item all unanimous, gavel to gavel in 35 minutes. Compare November 2025 — two hours eighteen minutes, two denials, a 3-1, a 3-2, a motion that died for lack of a second and a formal procedural-violation filing. Whatever produced friction on this board in 2025 is gone from the record by mid-2026.

  • The records lag closed. The May 6 and May 20 minutes were approved on June 17, four and six weeks after their meetings, against a two-to-six-month lag through 2025. The board's paperwork improved as its deliberation thinned.

Raw Notes

  • Source provenance and document status: CivicClerk publishes this record under file 9968, typed "Action Summary" and named "06.18.26 Actions," under agenda 2078, event 2433. The document itself is headed "MEETING MINUTES" and carries full attendance, staff list, movers, seconders, vote rolls and call-to-order and adjournment times. No file typed "Minutes" had been published for this meeting as of the harvest date (2026-08-15), and the June 17 minutes were not on the July 15 agenda for approval. This document is therefore recorded as minutes with status pending-approval, and its content is drawn entirely from that file. The published agenda (file 9944) and agenda packet (file 9952) corroborate the item list.
  • The CivicClerk file name dates the record 06.18.26 while the document header, agenda and all page footers date the meeting Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
  • No signature or attestation block appears in the published record.
  • Staff title note: Doug Etheredge appears as Assistant Director; Kalanit Oded appears as City Attorney, confirming the permanent appointment first recorded May 6, 2026.
  • Martin Levert's appointment is not documented in any harvested record; he simply appears on the roster.
  • The record contains no Discussion, no Hear Chairman and Board Members entries, and no notices of forthcoming motions — the first meeting since August 2025 with none.

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