City of Maitland Planning and Zoning Commission — June 4, 2026

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Yes (4 of 5 members present; Chair absent) Duration: 45 minutes (6:00 PM – 6:45 PM)

Attendance

• Present: Vice-Chair Jody Barry (presiding), Commissioner Eddie Baird, Commissioner Ken Linehan, Commissioner Greg Hardwick
• Absent: Chair Glen Jaffee
• Staff Present: Mike Daniels (Director of Community Development), Drew Smith (Attorney), Sara Blanchard (Chief Planner), Barrett Chaix (Senior Planner)

Agenda Items

Item 1: Planned Development Amendment AZPD(2026)-0004 — Charles Schwab Campus Improvements

• Type: PUD (Planned Development amendment)

• Case Number: AZPD(2026)-0004

• Location: "The Summit" Planned Development, 2000 Summit Park Drive, Maitland, FL 32751 — developed in unincorporated Orange County and annexed into the City of Maitland in 2002

• Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (property owner). Presenting: Katie Blair (Charles Schwab Design Team Director), Trey Beck (Charles Schwab project manager), Carrie Read, PLA (LandDesign), Jacob Lucky (Finfrock).

• Request: Amend the PD to permit several campus improvements, the most significant being a parking structure up to 10 stories in height, with three deviations from the approved PD and the Maitland LDC: (1) reduction of the existing 25-foot northern property boundary setback to 10 feet; (2) an increase above the 70% maximum impervious percentage; and (3) interior-illuminated monument and directional signage.

• Current Zoning: PD (Planned Development)

• Proposed Zoning: PD, amended

• Acreage: Approximately 24.3 acres across three parcels, developed with four office buildings and two parking structures

• Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions. The Development Review Committee voted May 20, 2026 to recommend approval with conditions per the staff report.

• Action: Approved — recommendation of approval with conditions forwarded to City Council

• Vote: 4-0 (Ayes: Baird, Linehan, Hardwick, Barry; Nays: none. Mover: Baird; Seconder: Linehan)

• Conditions: As stated in the DRC staff report findings and standards; no additional conditions were added from the dais.

• Notable Discussion: Blair described the project as modernizing and refreshing the existing campus buildings "in order to attract top talent to the firm," and said Schwab is "densifying" the existing office buildings — the reason for a structure accommodating 2,000 more parking spaces. Asked by Barry for the final parking ratio after all improvements, Blair said they would be at 90% of capacity, with "well over 4,500 employees." Asked by Barry whether adding stories to the existing garages had been considered, Blair said it had and was cost-prohibitive.

  Hardwick asked how the height of the existing structures compares to the proposed garage; Blair replied that both would be approximately 100 feet above grade. Baird asked about the composition of the parcels and the stormwater calculations; Read (LandDesign) responded, and Lucky (Finfrock) explained that the project will not remove compensating stormwater storage because the garage will be built over a vault. Hardwick asked about the mechanism by which the setbacks are reduced; Chaix explained the PD zone amendment request, and Blair explained that the neighboring property to the north is owned by AdventHealth and used for stormwater storage, and that Schwab's leadership team has been in contact with them.

  Linehan asked about phasing; Lucky explained that prefabricated material would be transferred from the Apopka factory. Beck spoke to the timing of interior renovations and coordination with the other campus improvements. Hardwick asked about fire review; Lucky described design modifications reached in collaboration with the Fire Department. Baird asked about construction access; Lucky described the access plan.

  Barry established that the property is part of the Maitland Summit 2 POA, not the Maitland Center POA. The garage location sits within a FEMA flood hazard boundary (Zone A); the applicant has submitted engineering analysis for a Letter of Map Revision to revise the flood zone boundary, under review with city staff. If approved, the next steps are Site Plan Review and then building permits.

  No member of the public spoke at either the public period or the public hearing.

Public Hearings Summary

• Number of speakers: 0
• General sentiment: N/A — no public present
• Key concerns: None raised by the public

Key Signals

• The headline is employment, not height: Schwab is building for "well over 4,500 employees" and adding 2,000 parking spaces at 90% of capacity. The application reads as a setback variance and an impervious-surface deviation; what the applicant actually described from the podium is a campus being densified to attract talent, with parking demand as the visible proxy for headcount. This is the single largest employment-base signal in Maitland's record. In a fully built-out city with essentially no greenfield inventory, job-center intensification — not housing — is the growth vector, and it arrives through a PD amendment rather than a rezoning.

• The June agenda reading overstated the vertical form; the minutes correct it. The agenda-stage document flagged a 10-story, ~100-foot garage as "the highest vertical form in Maitland's recent corpus." Blair testified that the existing structures and the proposed garage are both approximately 100 feet above grade. The garage matches the campus it serves rather than towering over it, and Schwab considered adding stories to the two existing garages first and rejected it as cost-prohibitive. The story-count is a fair description of the mass; it is not a new height precedent for the city.

• The deviation's burden falls on AdventHealth's stormwater parcel, which is why nobody objected. The 25-foot-to-10-foot northern setback reduction abuts land owned by AdventHealth and used for stormwater storage, with Schwab's leadership already in contact with them. A setback reduction whose only affected neighbor is a large institutional owner in a private conversation produces an empty hearing room. Read against the July 2025 MCN Lot 6 item — four residents from Druid Isle Road, an hour and a half of testimony — the variable in Maitland is not the size of the ask but whether a residential neighborhood shares the property line.

• Finfrock's Apopka precast plant supplies the garage — a physical supply chain running between two corpus cities. Lucky explained the phasing in terms of prefabricated components transferred from the Apopka factory. Apopka's industrial base is manufacturing the structural capacity of Maitland's office campus. Cross-corpus recurrence in this record is usually a shared law firm or engineering consultant; this is a materials link, and it is worth tracking as Apopka's industrial-land decisions become supply constraints on office and garage construction across Orange and Seminole.

• Maitland's largest corporate expansion cleared the board in 45 minutes with the Chair absent and nobody in the room. Four commissioners approved a three-deviation request on a FEMA Zone A parcel, unanimously, in less time than the May 7 conceptual discussion of a small-lot housing exemption took. The city that argues for an hour about parking-lot massing on a 2.9-acre retail pad approved 2,000 structured parking spaces without adding a single condition from the dais. The scrutiny in Maitland attaches to form in the residential fabric, not to scale in the employment core.

• The development-process complaint became a committee. Under Old Business, Vice-Chair Barry reported he has been in conversations with the Mayor and that they are forming a committee to discuss development review processes. Jaffee first raised the workshop idea on July 17, 2025 and again on November 6, 2025 after hearing from the development community that Maitland is difficult to build in. Eleven months later it institutionalizes — a standing venue where the city's procedural friction gets renegotiated outside any noticed public hearing.

Raw Notes

• Minutes of May 7, 2026 approved 4-0 (Mover: Hardwick; Seconder: Baird; Ayes: Baird, Hardwick, Linehan, Barry).
• Attendance transcription error in the source: the minutes print "Present: 5- Jody Barry (Vice-Chair), Eddie Baird, Ken Linehan, Greg Hardwick" and "Absent: 0 - Glen Jaffee (Chair)." Four names are listed as present and Jaffee is named as absent; the counts are transposed. Actual attendance was 4 present, 1 absent, consistent with the four-name vote tallies on both motions.
• Old Business (Director Daniels): the DM zone district revisions for small lots are going to City Council for preliminary discussion; Maitland Concourse North Lot 6 is going to second reading; MCN Lot 3 and 753 N. Orlando are at site plan review going forward at DRC.
• Source and provenance: this document is drawn from the DRAFT June 4, 2026 minutes embedded as the "Minutes of Previous Meeting" exhibit in the August 6, 2026 agenda packet (CivicClerk maitlandfl, agendaId 1718, fileId 5684, packet pages 3–6). The June 4 meeting record itself (agendaId 1708) carries only an Agenda and an Agenda Packet with no standalone Minutes file, and the July 2, 2026 meeting was cancelled — so the August packet is the first place these minutes surface. Minutes are marked DRAFT pending approval at the August 6, 2026 meeting; front matter status: draft reflects that.
• Upgrade note: this document supersedes knowledge/maitland/2026-06-agenda-PZC.md (harvested 2026-06-04 as a forward-signal agenda) as the record of what the board actually did. The agenda document retains value for the plan-set detail extracted from the June packet — Finfrock DMC as garage architect/structural, LandDesign as civil and landscape architect, drawing dates (PD Amendment 01/29/2026, Response 03/13/2026, Response #2 04/28/2026), the structural seal by Timothy McCormick, PE, the "Schwab Blue" metal fin finish, the ORL G3 project designation, and the fire-access conditions (20-foot minimum fire-truck route width, 30-foot minimum turning radius) — none of which is restated in the minutes.
• Source: CivicClerk tenant maitlandfl, June meeting agendaId 1708 (event 1092); minutes retrieved via agendaId 1718 (event 1094).