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Lake Mary Planning and Zoning Board — July 28, 2026 agenda

City of Lake Mary Planning and Zoning Board — July 28, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (agenda — forward signal; no votes yet) Quorum: To be determined (5-member board that has seated 3 at every meeting in the corpus since September 2025) Location: Lake Mary City Hall, 100 N. Country Club Road Agenda posted: July 24, 2026, 2:37 PM (four days before the hearing)

Attendance

  • Expected: Lake Mary PZB members (roster at the last minuted meeting, April 28, 2026: Chairman Robert Hawkins, Member Brittany Walker, Member Frederic Schott; two seats vacant)
  • Staff (anticipated): Sabreena Colbert (Community Development Director — named Project Manager on both items), Patrick Martin (Community Development Administrative Coordinator), Assistant City Attorney

Agenda Items

Item 1: 2026-CU-01 — Instructional Dance Studio, 141 Parliament Loop (Conditional Use)

  • Type: CUP (Conditional Use — quasi-judicial public hearing)
  • Case Number: 2026-CU-01
  • Location: 141 Parliament Loop, Suites 1001 and 1021 — an existing building
  • Applicant: Mr. Vard Margaryan, Better Future Better Life, LLC
  • Request: Recommendation to the Mayor and City Commission on a conditional use permitting an instructional dance studio inside an existing building in the PO, Professional Office, zoning district, occupying two suites.
  • Current Zoning: PO (Professional Office)
  • Proposed Zoning: No change (conditional use within PO)
  • Acreage: Not stated on the agenda — tenant suites within an existing building; no site area, floor area, or parking count published
  • Staff Recommendation: Not available — no staff report was published with this agenda; Sabreena Colbert (Community Development Director) is Project Manager
  • Action: Pending (recommendation to City Commission)
  • Vote: Pending
  • Conditions: Pending
  • Notable Discussion (anticipated): The conditional-use path is itself the finding of record — an instructional studio is not a by-right use in Lake Mary's Professional Office district, so the board must decide whether a dance school is compatible with an office park. The comparable in this corpus is 2025-CU-02 (January 27, 2026), where staff reframed a dental-assisting school as serving the M-1A High-Tech Corridor Overlay's technology cluster and the board recommended approval 3-0. Expect the same compatibility question here: evening and weekend class hours, parking demand at peak, and whether the use anchors or dilutes an office address.

Item 2: 2026-CU-03 — Health Club, Victoria Square, 3590 N. US Highway 17-92 (Conditional Use)

  • Type: CUP (Conditional Use — quasi-judicial public hearing)
  • Case Number: 2026-CU-03
  • Location: 3590 North US Highway 17-92, Suite 1020, in the existing Victoria Square plaza
  • Applicant: Mr. Christopher Goldschmidt, President, Goldys Fitness, LLC
  • Request: Recommendation to the Mayor and City Commission on a conditional use permitting a health club within the C-1, General Commercial zoning district, in an existing plaza suite.
  • Current Zoning: C-1 (General Commercial)
  • Proposed Zoning: No change (conditional use within C-1)
  • Acreage: Not stated on the agenda — a single suite within an existing multi-tenant plaza
  • Staff Recommendation: Not available — no staff report was published with this agenda; Sabreena Colbert (Community Development Director) is Project Manager
  • Action: Pending (recommendation to City Commission)
  • Vote: Pending
  • Conditions: Pending
  • Notable Discussion (anticipated): Health clubs draw a conditional use in C-1 because of hours and parking-demand profile rather than land-use conflict; the standard analysis is shared-parking adequacy across an existing plaza's tenant mix. Victoria Square sits on US 17-92, the Seminole County spine Lake Mary shares with Longwood, Casselberry, and Sanford — the corridor where retail plazas built for line-item retail are absorbing service and fitness tenants.

Public Hearings Summary

  • Public hearing items: 2 (both quasi-judicial — 2026-CU-01 and 2026-CU-03)
  • Number of speakers: Unknown (agenda — no testimony yet)
  • General sentiment: Unknown
  • Anticipated concerns: Parking adequacy at peak class hours in both cases; compatibility of an instructional/assembly use with a professional-office address at Parliament Loop

Key Signals

  • Lake Mary's entire July docket is re-tenanting: two conditional uses that place non-office, non-retail tenants into buildings that already exist. A dance studio takes two suites in a Professional Office building; a health club takes Suite 1020 of the Victoria Square plaza. No rezonings, no annexations, no acreage, no new construction. This is the third consecutive P&Z docket where the city's land-use motion arrives as a use-permission inside built space rather than as an entitlement on ground — after the January dental-assisting school in the M-1A High-Tech Overlay and April's Lake Emma Gateway, which demolishes a 1995 office building for 158,305 sq ft of office/warehouse flex. In a built-out city, the conditional use is the growth instrument, and the P&Z board's real function is adjudicating what an aging commercial inventory is allowed to become.
  • The office district is absorbing a fitness tenant — the clearest vacancy signal Lake Mary has produced in this corpus. Office is Lake Mary's economic identity (Colonial Town Park, Primera, Stirling Center along the I-4/Lake Mary Boulevard interchange). When an instructional dance studio applies for two suites in the PO district, the market is saying the highest available use of some of that space is now services and instruction. Read alongside Lake Emma Gateway — a three-story office building being replaced with warehouse-flex — two different mechanisms point the same direction: Lake Mary's office stock is converting, not expanding. Anyone underwriting office rents on the Lake Mary Boulevard corridor should treat both filings as comparables.
  • The May 12 forward signal resolved as anticipated — Lake Mary finished its code rewrite, on schedule and without a single public speaker. The corpus flagged 2026-ZTA-02 (Ord. 1726, Chapter 154 Land Usage) and 2026-ZTA-03 (Ord. 1727, Chapter 157 Landscaping) as the codification step for the Downtown Design Guide plus an arbor recalibration. City Commission minutes confirm it: June 4, 2026 — Ord. 1726 approved 4-0 by roll call, Resolution No. 1085 adopting the Downtown Design Guide with Updates approved 4-0, Ord. 1727 approved 4-0; June 18, 2026 — both ordinances adopted 5-0 on second reading. No one spoke at any of the public hearings. The Downtown Design Guide is now binding code, not advisory resolution. Developers who negotiated downtown projects against a guide are now negotiating against an ordinance.
  • Correction to the corpus's own framing: this adoption did not race an SB 180 sunset — it walked into one. The May 12 agenda record framed Lake Mary's amendments against a June 2026 SB 180 self-expiration. That date does not exist. Chapter 2025-190 §28 runs the moratorium on "more restrictive or burdensome" local land regulation through October 1, 2027, with the session law expiring June 30, 2028; the 2026 fix bill that would have moved the sunset forward (SB 840) died in the House on March 13, 2026. Lake Mary's June 18 adoptions are therefore post-August-2024 regulations exposed to preemption challenge for roughly two more years. Every downtown project that finds the new design standards costly has a statutory argument available to it until 2028.
  • Two quasi-judicial hearings will likely be decided by three appointees on a five-seat board. Lake Mary's P&Z seated four members in September 2025 — one of them an alternate — and exactly three at both minuted 2026 meetings, January 27 and April 28, where Director Colbert confirmed on the record that the city is working multiple vacancies. The September 2025 roster includes Member Nick Carlin; a Commissioner Nicholas Carlin now sits on the City Commission. If that is one person, the board lost a member upward rather than to attrition, and the seat has stayed open for roughly ten months. Meanwhile the Commission is at full strength (June 18's 5-0 followed June 4's 4-0, which reflected one excused absence, not a vacancy). The pattern recurs across the corpus through different mechanisms: Lake County abolishing its Board of Adjustment outright, Minneola running a 4-member board, Lake Mary running a 3-of-5 board for at least eleven months. The appointed-advisory layer is thinning region-wide; here it thins by attrition, and the quasi-judicial capacity of the body reviewing conditional uses thins with it.

Raw Notes

Source and access. CivicClerk tenant lakemaryfl, eventId 989, agendaId 651, fileId 3927 (2-page PDF, 139,609 bytes, "07/28/2026 P&Z Agenda", posted July 24, 2026 2:37 PM). This is the only file published to the event — no agenda packet, no staff reports, no item attachments, no minutes. The Events endpoint must be queried with an explicit date filter; the default descending query returns only future events.

Recurring agenda structure. Call to Order; Moment of Silence; Pledge; Roll Call / Determination of Quorum; Approval of P&Z Minutes (item 5A: Draft Planning & Zoning Board Minutes — May 12, 2026); Citizen Participation; P&Z Public Participation Process; Old Business (none listed); New Business (the two conditional uses); Community Development Director's Report; Other Business; Reports of Other Members; Adjournment. The board also serves as the city's Local Planning Agency.

May 12 minutes remain unpublished. They appear on this agenda as a draft awaiting approval (item 5A), so the corpus's May 12 record stays agenda-only for at least one more cycle. What the P&Z actually voted on May 12 is still not in the public record — the June 4 Commission minutes present the two ordinances through the staff report and do not restate the board's recommendation or tally.

Case-number gap. The docket carries 2026-CU-01 and 2026-CU-03. 2026-CU-02 is not on this agenda and has not appeared on any harvested Lake Mary agenda. The numbering implies a third 2026 conditional-use application that was withdrawn, deferred, or is still in review; nothing in the published record identifies it.

Commission trail verified this harvest (City Commission minutes, same tenant): June 4, 2026 (fileId 3911) — Ord. 1726 / Res. 1085 / Ord. 1727 each carried 4-0 by roll call at first reading, with Commissioner Nicholas Carlin recorded as an excused absence; Sydney Boswell presented all three; no public speakers; meeting adjourned 7:39. Commission discussion was implementation-flavored rather than contested — outreach and marketing for the Design Guide, connections between downtown and adjacent neighborhoods, whether the arbor manual could be shared with homeowners, and street-tree species selection given sidewalk-uprooting concerns. June 18, 2026 (fileId 3925, scanned/OCR) — both ordinances adopted 5-0 on second reading; "Items for Information: None," so the noticed Downtown Projects Update was not presented.

Where these two conditional uses go next. The August 6, 2026 City Commission agenda (fileId 3933) does not carry 2026-CU-01 or 2026-CU-03 — its only land-use item is Ordinance No. 1728, amending Title V Chapter 50, City Wastewater System, Industrial Users (first reading, Public Works Director Danielle Koury). The earliest Commission date for the July 28 recommendations is therefore August 20, 2026. Ord. 1728 is worth tracking alongside the Lake Emma Gateway office-to-flex approval: a city adding industrial-user provisions to its wastewater code while approving 158,305 sq ft of flex space is aligning utility regulation with the tenant mix it is now entitling.

Forward calendar. The portal currently lists four future P&Z dates — August 11, August 25, September 8, and September 22, 2026 — none with files posted. June 2026 carried no P&Z entry at all, which indicates this portal removes unneeded dates rather than leaving placeholders; if that holds, four calendared dates in six weeks would be a marked acceleration for a board the corpus has characterized as the lightest-cadence active body in the cluster. Treat as unconfirmed until agendas post.

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