Location: Northwest corner of Fullers Cross Road and N. Lakewood Avenue
Applicant: Barragan Property
Acreage: 5.09 +/- acres (primarily wooded and vacant)
Notable:Property is within the State Road 429 Overlay District — Interchange Village Character Area, therefore subject to the area design plan
Staff Recommendation: Approve
Action: Recommend approval to Ocoee City Commission
Vote: Unanimous (motion by Keller, second by Chacon)
Notable Discussion: Applicant not present. Vice-Chair Forges asked about neighboring properties.
Project Status Updates (Miscellaneous)
Assistant City Manager Rumer provided updates:
Apartments across from the High School: certificate of completion received for Phase 1 + several buildings
The Regency mixed-use project (Maguire Rd + Old Winter Garden Rd): traffic signal installation beginning for feeder lanes
Business Center on Ocoee Apopka Rd: nearing completion in two phases (east/west); shell-building certificates of completion issued; tenant design applications coming
Pickleball courts: Chair Lomneck inquired about City Commission posture; Rumer answered (substance not transcribed)
Ocoee has a State Road 429 Overlay District with named "Interchange Village Character Area" and an associated area design plan — direct evidence of form-based-code propagation along SR-429. The 2277 Fuller Cross Road annexation staff report establishes that the parcel falls within the SR-429 Overlay District's Interchange Village Character Area and is therefore subject to the area design plan. This is the corpus's clearest evidence that the Wellness Way design-standards pattern is propagating eastward into the SR-429 corridor at the form-based-code substrate level, not merely as Apopka's Town Center Overlay (which is form-based but specific to the Wyld Oaks parcel). Ocoee's character-area approach uses character-and-design language across multiple parcels — the structural mechanism of form-based codes that survive SB 180 by anchoring to character rather than to use-listings. The corridor-wide pattern: Wellness Way Design Standards (Clermont, 2022, SB 180-grandfathered) + KPI-MU Town Center Overlay (Apopka, January-February 2026) + SR-429 Overlay District Interchange Village (Ocoee, pre-cycle adoption with active enforcement). Three cities, one corridor, three form-based code architectures all enforcing.
Pickleball courts emerged as a recurring topic at the City Commission level — independent of the Thomas Property variance (March 10 2026). Chair Lomneck's December 9 inquiry about City Commission addressing pickleball courts predates the Thomas Property variance hearing by 90 days, confirming pickleball-noise has been a city-wide policy concern for at least one cycle before the substantive variance test. The cross-board, cross-month tracking (PZC December → PZC March) compounds with Apopka October's "social media post" ex-parte disclosure on the place-of-worship special exception — both demonstrate that emerging-use-class pressure (pickleball noise; recovery residences; place-of-worship locations) is reaching boards through both formal applications and informal city-council conversations simultaneously.
Three large active projects update the city's pipeline — Maguire/Old Winter Garden Regency, Ocoee Apopka Rd Business Center, and Cambria Hotel. The Regency mixed-use traffic-signal installation is a milestone signal. The Ocoee Apopka Road Business Center two-phase build-out is moving toward operating tenancy. The Cambria Hotel CDD process delay is the corpus's first observation of CDD friction in Ocoee — a slow process flagged by staff during the Vice-Chair's inquiry. Each of these is a fresh-pipeline signal worth tracking in subsequent meetings.
Raw Notes
Source: Ocoee CivicClerk tenant ocoeefl, agenda ID 532 (event 594). Standalone Minutes PDF is a scanned image; minutes content reconstructed from the embedded Minutes section in the January 13 2026 agenda packet (pages 2-3 of 34). Full attendance + 11-minute meeting + single substantive annexation indicates a clean year-end docket cycle.