Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 6:00 PM Location: City Hall, Commission Chambers, 101 Church Street, Kissimmee, Florida 34741-5054 Record: The agenda and the 65-page agenda packet. The minutes of this meeting are not in the corpus, so actions, votes, attendance and testimony are not recorded here. Both public hearings are Land Development Code text amendments; neither is a site-specific application.

The meeting scheduled for August 5, 2026 was cancelled. The City's notice reads: "The Planning Advisory Board meeting scheduled for August 5, 2026 has been canceled due to a lack of agenda items."

Agenda Items

Item 3.A: Approval of the June 17, 2026 PAB meeting minutes

Type: Other (minutes approval)
Request: "Approval of the June 17, 2026 Planning Advisory Board (PAB) Meeting minutes."

Item 3.B: Approval of the July 15, 2026 PAB meeting minutes

Type: Other (minutes approval)
Request: "Approval of the July 15, 2026 Planning Advisory Board (PAB) Meeting minutes."

Item 6.A: Proposed Ordinance #26-21, Conditional Use Review Moved to the City Commission

Type: Text Amendment (Land Development Code, Chapter 14-3)
Case Number: Proposed Ordinance #26-21
Sections amended: 14-3-1 (Planning advisory board), 14-3-16 Table 3-1 (Level of review required), 14-3-29 (Conditional uses)
Location: Citywide
Applicant: City of Kissimmee, Development Services. The staff report states: "The proposed changes were a directive from the City Commission, who felt these edits would benefit the process and would better achieve the goals of the City."
Request: Per the ordinance title, "DESIGNATE THE CITY COMMISSION AS A REVIEWING AUTHORITY FOR CONDITIONAL USES," add "PROVISIONS FOR SITE PLAN WAIVERS," and designate "THE CITY COMMISSION AS THE APPROVAL BOARD FOR CONDITIONAL USES."
Staff Recommendation: "Staff recommends approval."
Action: Public hearing; the minutes are not in the corpus

What the exhibits change, as the staff report and the ordinance text state them:

Removes 14-3-1.C, which empowers the board "To review, hold public hearings and take action on conditional use applications." The staff report: "the Planning Advisory Board (PAB) will no longer take final action on conditional use approvals. The PAB will still make a recommendation to the City Commission."
Amends Table 3-1 "to add the City Commission as a review authority for conditional use approvals."
Rewrites 14-3-29.D.2 so the board shall "vote to recommend approval, approval with conditions, or deny the application to the City Commission."
Adds a site plan waiver at 14-3-29.C.2, including a finding that "The director determines a concept plan is sufficient for the submittal," and an alternative submittal at 14-3-29.C.3 that includes "An applicant provided set of findings or reasons why the conditional use should be approved."
Moves the three-month extension of a conditional use from the city manager to the Development Services Director; a further extension of up to nine months stays with the City Commission.
Rewrites the violations clause so that a failure to adhere to the terms and conditions of approval, the City Code of Ordinances, and State and Federal laws "shall be subject to the immediate revocation of the conditional use permit by the City Manager," in place of the "penalties prescribed by this title."

Timeline, as staff state it: "this modification to the standards will result in an added three (or more) weeks to the timeline for conditional uses due to advertising requirements and the City Commission schedule."

Business Impact Estimate: "Proposed Ordinance 26-21 amends the review procedure for Conditional Uses to add the City Commission as the final reviewing body." The City "does not anticipate that this ordinance will impose a new fee or cost for private for-profit businesses" and "does not anticipate that this ordinance will financially impact any businesses."

Item 6.B: Proposed Ordinance #26-20, Chapter 14-11 Signs

Type: Text Amendment (Land Development Code, Chapter 14-11)
Case Number: Proposed Ordinance #26-20
Location: Citywide, with a Downtown Community Redevelopment Area provision
Applicant: City of Kissimmee, Development Services
Request: "REORGANIZING AND UPDATING CHAPTER 14-11 SIGNS; ADDING 14-11-6.B REQUIRING BTRS; UPDATING 14-11-9.B TABLE 11-3; UPDATING 14-11-11.A TABLE 11-5"
Staff Recommendation: "Staff recommends approval."
Action: Public hearing; the minutes are not in the corpus

What the staff report lists:

The period to bring an abandoned, destroyed, substantially damaged, or altered sign up to Code goes from 60 days to 15 days, running from "Code Enforcement notification via certified mail"; "If additional time is needed, that will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Code Enforcement officer."
A location "must have an active Business Tax Receipt (BTR) in order to have a sign," which staff describe as "standard practice at the City" that "assists Code Enforcement with determining if a sign is abandoned."
Non-residential building signs: "one per street frontage and one for ground floor units with entrances not fronting the street."
Feather banners "are not permitted within the Downtown Community Redevelopment Area (CRA)"; staff note they "are not currently allowed, but language was added for clarity."
Non-residential yard signs, amended "to accommodate the political season": an unlimited number during the period "90 days before and 30 days after elections held by the Osceola County Supervisor of Elections," otherwise three signs per lot at one time, at 32 square feet and 7 feet in non-residential, mixed-use and multi-family districts.

Business Impact Estimate: no new fee or cost anticipated. It notes the added 14-11-14.C language, "plus storage in the amount of $25.00 per sign," as "codifying a long-standing policy."

Public Hearings Summary

Items 6.A and 6.B are listed as public hearings. Items 4 (Old Business) and 5 (New Business) carry no entries. Speakers and testimony are in the minutes, which the corpus does not hold.

Key Signals

Conditional use decisions would move from this board to the City Commission. Ordinance #26-21 removes the board's power to "take action on conditional use applications" and leaves it a recommendation, with the City Commission as the approval board. Staff attribute the change to "a directive from the City Commission" and state it adds "three (or more) weeks" to a conditional use.
The amendment returns under a new number. Proposed Ordinance #26-11, which covered 14-3-16 and 14-3-29 and the same change of reviewing authority, was continued 5-0 on April 1, 2026 and had not returned to an agenda through July 15. The Deputy City Attorney's June 2025 training for the board, as the corpus records it, called the board "the final decision-making body for the City of Kissimmee on applications including Conditional Use Permits with Site Plans."
The same ordinance adds a revocation power. The rewritten violations clause makes a failure to follow approval conditions, the City Code, or State and Federal law "subject to the immediate revocation of the conditional use permit by the City Manager."
Sign enforcement gets a shorter clock and a license test. Ordinance #26-20 cuts the cure period for an abandoned or damaged sign from 60 days to 15 and ties every sign to an active Business Tax Receipt; it also adds wall signage for units without a street entrance and an election-season yard sign allowance.

Raw Notes

Source files. CivicClerk tenant kissimmeefl, event 2435: the Agenda (2 pages) and the Agenda Packet (65 pages), both native text. The August 5 cancellation is a one-page notice on event 2423.
Minutes in the packet. The packet carries the June 17 and July 15, 2026 minutes for approval; the corpus holds both meetings as records (2026-06-meeting-PAB.md, 2026-07-meeting-PAB.md).
Redline caveat. The exhibits are redlines, and the text layer runs struck and inserted words together. The changes above are the ones the staff report states in plain language, read against the exhibit text. One passage does not resolve this way: the expansion threshold in 14-3-29 extracts as "increased by greater than 49.9 50 percent 50% or more, or due to previous or proposed expansions or more than 1,500 square" feet. The adopted ordinance is the place to read it.

Kissimmee Planning Advisory Board, August 19, 2026 agenda