City of Ocoee Planning & Zoning Commission — April 14, 2026

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (acting as Local Planning Agency) Quorum: Yes (5 of 5 members plus Alternate; no absences) Duration: 16 minutes (called 6:15 PM, adjourned 6:31 PM) — the shortest meeting in the Ocoee record

Attendance

• Present: Chair Lomneck, Vice-Chair Forges, Member Keller, Member Chacon, Member Galvan, Alternate Member Butler
• Absent: None
• Staff Present: Development Services Director Lepp; Assistant City Manager Rumer; Board Attorney Johnson; Recording Clerk Justice

Agenda Items

Consent: Minutes of the March 10, 2026 Meeting

• Type: Consent (minutes approval)
• Action: Approved
• Vote: Unanimous (motion by Keller, second by Galvan)
• Notable: The March 10 meeting produced the Thomas Property pickleball variance denial recommendation (4-0), the 1460 N. Lakewood PUD rezoning 3-1 split with Member Keller opposing, and the Holiday Inn Express brand-and-user-bound Special Exception (4-0)

Item 1: Maguire Plaza — Large-Scale Preliminary/Final Site Plan

• Type: Site Plan (Large-Scale Preliminary Final Site Plan)
• Case Number: LS-2025-006
• Location: 51 Maguire Road (Commission District 3) — west of Maguire Road, south of the State Road 438 / Franklin Street and Maguire Road intersection; parcel ID 18-22-28-0000-00-096
• Applicant: 51 Maguire Rd LLC / Luis Ortiz (Malak Design Corp, architect of record). David F. Glunt, P.E., Spruce Creek Civil Engineering appeared for the applicant and stated he was available for questions
• Request: Three single-story buildings totaling 42,750 sq ft of flex space for commercial office use, with on-site parking, stormwater management, and supporting infrastructure. Three previously separate parcels were consolidated into the subject lot
• Current Zoning: I-1 (Restricted Manufacturing and Warehousing)
• Proposed Zoning: No change (site plan, not a rezoning)
• Current FLU: LI (Light Industrial) — unchanged
• Acreage: 3.63 acres (as presented at the hearing; the staff report states ~3.64)
• Overlay / Unique Features: Downtown Mixed-Use District; Plant Street Character Area Gateway District
• Staff Recommendation: Approve. The Development Review Committee met April 7, 2026 and recommended approval. Director Lepp presented the project as consistent with Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, and the Downtown Mixed-Use District, with architecture consistent with the Plant Street Character Area Gateway District
• Action: Approved — recommendation of approval forwarded to the City Commission
• Vote: Unanimous (motion by Keller, second by Chacon)
• Conditions: None
• Notable Discussion: Assistant City Manager Rumer disclosed that the Silver Star Road realignment project is not yet funded through FDOT — it remains in the program, but its priority ranking has not been sufficient to secure funding. The City had previously anticipated completing the Franklin Street and Silver Star corridor realignment and roadway improvement designs before development at this location. Rumer reported that the Expressway Authority recently completed relocation of the exit ramp from SR 429, which included widening a portion of Franklin Street to accommodate dual left-turn lanes; the City funded installation of a twelve-foot wide-walk along Franklin Street in conjunction with the widening. Westward access for the project is anticipated via a future roadway connection to Bowness Avenue. Vice-Chair Forges asked why the project came for approval at all if it meets zoning specifications; Rumer responded, and discussion covered the property's history of proposed projects and utility-related logistical challenges. Chair Lomneck asked whether the developer is providing right-of-way for future expansion of the road; Rumer answered in the negative, explaining it was not necessary to accommodate the expansion. No speaker forms were received

Miscellaneous: Project Status Report

Assistant City Manager Rumer reported:

• The grand opening for The Regency (Maguire Road mixed-use, 300 multifamily units + 7,000 sq ft retail) was announced
• Elan Crown Point is nearing completion
• An accessory structure is being installed behind the Floors Direct store
• O2B Kids is nearing completion
• An update for the Cambria Hotel is anticipated soon, now that the project has moved forward with the City Center West Orange CDD
• Eight Large-Scale Site Plans have been submitted within the last two weeks
• A preconstruction meeting for the Walmart Neighborhood Market occurred that day
• Development plans for the northwest corner of Ocoee Village Center are forthcoming and may be presented at the next Planning & Zoning Commission meeting
• Improvements are being made at Forest Lake Golf Club, including dining options
• The Recording Clerk will contact members whose terms are up for reappointment

Public Hearings Summary

• Number of speakers: 0 (no speaker forms received)
• General sentiment: N/A
• Key concerns: None recorded. A large-scale site plan on already-in-city I-1 land, with no rezoning and no use change, drew no public participation

Key Signals

• Eight large-scale site plans landed in Ocoee's intake queue in two weeks — the pipeline surged while the docket went empty. The April meeting adjourned in sixteen minutes on a single uncontested item, and in the same breath Assistant City Manager Rumer reported eight LS applications submitted in a fortnight. A thin agenda is a lagging indicator; the submission count is the leading one. Those eight applications are the dockets of late 2026, and they arrive while the Land Development Code that would govern them is frozen under SB 180 (stated on the record two months later, June 9, 2026).
• The Silver Star Road realignment is programmed but unfunded at FDOT, and Ocoee approved gateway development anyway. This is the meeting's most consequential disclosure. The City had planned to complete the Franklin Street / Silver Star corridor realignment designs before building at this location; FDOT priority ranking has not cleared the funding bar. The board then approved a 42,750 sq ft project at the corner and — when Chair Lomneck asked directly — accepted staff's position that no right-of-way dedication was needed for future road expansion. The mitigating infrastructure that did arrive came from a different agency: the Expressway Authority's SR-429 exit-ramp relocation, the Franklin Street widening for dual left-turn lanes, and a City-funded twelve-foot wide-walk. For anyone underwriting Maguire Road frontage, the roadway improvement that appears in the comprehensive plan is not on a funded schedule.
• Cambria Hotel's eighteen-month stall broke through the CDD, not through zoning. City Center West Orange first appears as stalled in the May 13, 2025 status report ("no movement with regards to permitting"). The release condition recorded here is that the project "moved forward with the City Center West Orange CDD." Special-district financing, not entitlement, was the binding constraint. Two months later, in June 2026, Director Lepp reported "no current updates on City Center West Orange" — the unlock produced a status change, not yet a construction start.
• Flex space is the product class absorbing Ocoee's industrial-edge demand, and this is the first one approved. Three tilt-up single-story buildings, 42,750 sq ft total, on 3.63 consolidated acres of I-1 land inside three downtown-flavored overlays. Small-bay industrial/office hybrid for contractors, light assembly, and last-mile users — a different demand signal than the grocery-anchored retail and hospitality that dominated the prior year's dockets. The July 14, 2026 status report extends the pattern: a 4,600 sq ft industrial office building on L F Roper Parkway and Ocoee Commerce Park's ~450,000 sq ft of industrial/retail/workspace on Ocoee-Apopka Road.
• Nick Lepp presented his first marquee item, and Rumer did the talking on the parts that mattered. Lepp, introduced March 10 after the Whitfield departure and the Building Official's death, delivered the project overview; Assistant City Manager Rumer supplied the FDOT funding status, the Expressway Authority sequence, and the right-of-way answer. Institutional memory on Ocoee's road program sits with the ACM, not the new director. Two months later Lepp is running the impervious-surface workshop on his own — the transition is real but it took a cycle.

Raw Notes

Source: Ocoee CivicClerk tenant ocoeefl, P&Z category id=27, agendaId 562 / Events(598). Published files: Agenda (fileId 1471 for June; April's agenda and packet under agendaId 562) and standalone Minutes (fileId 1473).

This document supersedes an agenda-only version harvested 2026-06-04. The April 14 minutes were not published in extractable form at that time. The standalone Minutes PDF (fileId 1473) is a scanned image with no text layer; the minutes text used here was read from pages 1–3 of the June 9, 2026 agenda packet (agendaId 564, fileId 1472), where they appear as front matter. The May 12, 2026 meeting was cancelled after its agenda was published, which is why the April minutes surface two meetings later rather than one. The minutes are signed by Recording Clerk Miranda Justice and Chair Brad Lomneck and were approved 5-0 on the June 9, 2026 consent agenda.

Staff-report detail retained from the April agenda packet (56 pages): existing land use is commercial office/warehousing; surrounding context is C-2 Commercial north and east, I-1 Light Industrial south (industrial use) and west (vacant); the City provides sanitary sewer, potable and non-potable water, with stormwater handled on-site; architecture is specified as tilt-up concrete panels with brick accents and cornice molding, front and rear access, and overhead doors at the rear. Architectural elevation sheets carry "MALAK DESIGN CORP. SERVICES INC. ARCHITECTURE, 51 MAGUIRE RD OCOEE, FL — luisortiz@malakcorp.com," and the boundary survey is certified to "LUIS ORTIZ, MALAK LLC, 51 MAGUIRE RD LLC; ANDREW L REIFF PA; OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE" — owner, architect, and on-site occupant appear to be the same Ortiz/Malak interest. Architectural revision dates run 02/15/2025 → 07/10/2025.

Acreage is stated as 3.63 acres in the minutes and ~3.64 acres in the staff report; the discrepancy is in the source and is not resolved here.

The applicant's engineer of record at the hearing (David F. Glunt, P.E., Spruce Creek Civil Engineering) is a new entity in the Ocoee record and did not appear in the agenda packet's design-team listing.