City of Minneola Planning & Zoning Commission — April 6, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Not yet determined (agenda only) Duration: N/A (agenda)

Attendance

• Present: TBD (agenda)
• Absent: TBD (agenda)
• Staff Present: City Council representative Councilor Flinn (Reports); City Planner Joyce Heffington, AICP (Reports)

Agenda Items

Item 1: Approval of March 2, 2026 Meeting Minutes

• Type: Other
• Action: [pending — agenda]

Item 2: Ordinance 2026-02 — Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD Annexation & Rezoning (Request to Table to May 4, 2026)

• Type: Annexation / Rezoning
• Case Number: Ordinance 2026-02
• Location: Two parcels generally located west of N. Hancock Road and north and south of Citrus Grove Road
• Applicant: Tara L. Tedrow, Esq. (attorney) on behalf of Crittenden Howey, LLC (Owner)
• Request: Annex ~15.878± acres into the City of Minneola and rezone from Lake County "Agriculture" (A) to "Planned Unit Development" (PUD)
• Acreage: 15.878±
• Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of the annexation and rezoning
• Action: [pending — applicant has requested item be tabled until May 4, 2026]

Item 3: Ordinance 2026-03 — Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD Comprehensive Plan Amendment (Request to Table to May 4, 2026)

• Type: Comp Plan Amendment
• Case Number: Ordinance 2026-03
• Location: Same 15.878± acres as Item 2
• Applicant: Crittenden Howey, LLC (Tara Tedrow, Esq.)
• Request: Comprehensive plan FLUM amendment to General Commercial
• Acreage: 15.878±
• Action: [pending — applicant has requested item be tabled until May 4, 2026]

Item 4: Resolution 2026-01 — Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD Development Agreement (Request to Table to May 4, 2026)

• Type: Other (Development Agreement)
• Case Number: Resolution 2026-01
• Location: Same 15.878± acres as Items 2 and 3
• Applicant: Crittenden Howey, LLC (Tara Tedrow, Esq.)
• Request: Approval of a Development Agreement for the Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD
• Action: [pending — applicant has requested item be tabled until May 4, 2026]

Item 5: Resolution 2026-03 — Saxon Industrial Park Variance Request

• Type: Variance
• Case Number: Resolution 2026-03
• Location: North side of C.R. 561 between Causey Road and Florida's Turnpike
• Applicant: Saxon Industrial Park (applicant name as listed on resolution)
• Request: Variance from Section 110-3(B)(L)D.I. and Section 110-6(B) of the Land Development Code regarding required landscape buffers
• Action: [pending — agenda]

Item 6: Discussion — Golf Carts

• Type: Other (policy discussion)
• Request: Discuss the necessity of additional regulation of golf carts in the City of Minneola
• Action: Discussion item (no formal action expected)

Item 7: Discussion — Urban Backyard Chickens

• Type: Other (policy discussion)
• Request: Discuss whether to recommend any changes to the current Backyard Chicken Ordinance
• Action: Discussion item (no formal action expected)

Public Hearings Summary

• Number of speakers: TBD (agenda)
• Items eligible for public hearing: Items 2-5 (quasi-judicial / land use)

Key Signals

• Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD enters the pipeline (15.878± acres, west of N. Hancock + along Citrus Grove Road): A new commercial PUD package — annexation, comp plan amendment to General Commercial, and development agreement — appears as a three-ordinance/resolution stack for Crittenden Howey, LLC, represented by Tara Tedrow (Lowndes), one of the most active land-use attorneys in Lake County. The applicant requested a one-month tabling to May 4. The location — west of N. Hancock Road and astride Citrus Grove Road — is the same intersection as the existing Citrus Grove Residential PUD (the 17-stipulation case from prior synthesis). Citrus Grove Road is consolidating as Minneola's eastern commercial spine.

• Saxon Industrial Park variance — landscape buffer pressure on C.R. 561 / Turnpike interchange: A landscape buffer variance request on the north side of C.R. 561 between Causey Road and the Florida Turnpike interchange. Industrial users are pushing landscape requirements at LDC edge cases — the kind of quiet variance traffic that signals where industrial demand is locating. C.R. 561 east of the Turnpike is becoming Minneola's industrial frontage.

• Golf Cart ordinance moving from "if" to "how": Item 6 is framed as a necessity discussion — does Minneola need additional regulation of golf carts. The May 4 agenda then carries Ordinance 2026-07 as a full draft. The April 6 discussion is the on-ramp for a substantive policy choice about golf carts on public streets, on private HOA streets, and within CDDs — a quietly important suburban-character marker.

• Urban Backyard Chickens — small-town governance texture: A discussion item to consider whether changes to the current Backyard Chicken Ordinance are warranted. Minor on its face, but it's a marker of Minneola still operating with the bandwidth to consider lifestyle/small-town code questions even while Crittenden Howey is annexing 15.878 commercial acres next door. The two sit on the same agenda by design.

• Three quasi-judicial / land-use items + two policy discussions on a single P&Z night: The shape of this agenda — three ordinance/resolution items being tabled, one variance moving forward, two discussions — is the texture of a board that is forward-loaded with the May 4 docket. Expect heavy May 4.

Raw Notes

• Source: April 6, 2026 standalone agenda PDF, retrieved from CivicClerk event 100. Citrus Grove items 2-4 were presented as "Request to Table Until May 4, 2026" — applicant-initiated tabling.
• Document type is agenda (status published) — see the matching 2026-04-meeting-PZC.md for the minutes record once available.
• The Citrus Grove Road Commercial PUD will return on May 4 under a different name — Citrus Ridge Commercial PUD — and a different acreage (17.878±). Naming and acreage shifts between April 6 and May 4 are noted in the May 4 agenda document.
• City Planner of record at the agenda level: Joyce Heffington, AICP. Contract planner Eric Raasch (Inspire Placemaking Collective) typically handles staff presentations at the dais.