City of Orlando Municipal Planning Board — March 17, 2026

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Yes (6 of 7 seated members present; one seat vacant) Duration: 9:00 a.m. – 9:17 a.m. (17 minutes) Location: Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Council Chambers (hybrid — Zoom webinar 950 5432 5064)

Note on the record: The City published these minutes as two separate documents because they went to City Council on two different dates. Part 1 of 2 contains only Item 4 (DTOutlook Part III) and was presented to City Council on April 6, 2026. Part 2 of 2 contains the remaining items and was presented to City Council on April 20, 2026. Both parts are dated March 17, 2026 and both record the same single consent motion.

Attendance

Present: Alfredo Barrott, Jr. (elected acting chairperson), Marcos Bastian, Carla Daly, Trevor Hall, Julie Kendig-Schrader, Yasmin Moreno; one seat vacant. Stefani Vitale, OCPS Representative (non-voting).
Absent: Ryan Seacrist (Chairperson), Carrie Read (Vice Chairperson)
Staff Present: Jason Burton (Executive Secretary), Paul Lewis, Karl Wielecki, Michaëlle Petion, Doug Metzger, Richard Forbes, Colandra Jones, Jim Burnett, Yolanda Ortiz, Shannan Stegman, Sean Elordi, Michele Gibbs, Deidre Oge, Nicole Palacios, Raquel Lozano (City Planning); Melissa Clarke (City Attorney's Office); Jacques Coulon and Mike Zayas (Transportation Planning); David Barilla and Mary-Stewart Droege (DDB/CRA); Kim King (Business Development); Caylah Sperry (Economic Development); Terrence Miller (Families, Parks & Recreation); Antoinette Cannon (Housing & Community Development); Audra Rigby (OPD Planning); Sergeant at Arms, OPD. Ed Petersen, acting MPB Recording Secretary.

Chair election: With both the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson absent, Board Member Bastian moved to nominate Alfredo Barrott as acting chairperson; Board Member Daly seconded; passed by unanimous voice vote.

Prior minutes: February 17, 2026 minutes approved as written (moved Daly, seconded Bastian), unanimous voice vote.

No conflicts declared. No speaker requests were received.

Agenda Items

All seven items moved on a single Consent Agenda motion. Nothing was pulled to the Regular Agenda.

Item 1: 2901 Corrine Drive — Annexation, Future Land Use and Initial Zoning

Type: Annexation + Comprehensive Plan Amendment + Rezoning
Case Number: ANX2025-10004 (annexation); GMP2025-10022 (future land use); ZON2025-10013 (initial zoning)
Location: 2901 Corrine Dr., north of Corrine Dr., east of Janice Ave., south of Marble Ave., west of E. Winter Park Rd. (± 0.2 acres), District 3
Applicant: Katy Magruder — Dix.Hite + Partners
Owner: Corrine Development II, LLC
Request: Annex the property into the city limits of Orlando; assign the Neighborhood Activity Center future land use designation; assign initial zoning of AC-N.
Proposed Zoning: AC-N (Neighborhood Activity Center)
Acreage: ± 0.2 acres
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: Secretary Note for the Record: two public comments were received and uploaded to the MPB webpage for board review. No speaker appeared. Project planner Colandra Jones.

Item 2: CUP2026-10000 — Ark and Dig Dog Run, 1978 Stanhome Way

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CUP2026-10000
Location: 1978 Stanhome Way, north of W. New Hampshire St., east of Packing District Way, south of W. Princeton St., west of Stanhome Way (± 9.4 acres), District 3
Applicant: Adam Harbin — The Ark Orlando, LLC
Owner: Dr. Phillips, Inc.
Request: Conditional Use Permit to allow a dog run for a new pet facility within 500 ft. of a residential use/district.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Michele Gibbs.

Item 3: GMP2026-10000 — 2025 Growth Indicators Report

Type: Comprehensive Plan (annual report)
Case Number: GMP2026-10000
Location: Citywide, all districts
Applicant: City of Orlando
Request: Annual report providing 2025 growth indicators, as required by Growth Management Plan Future Land Use Policy LU.1.5.1.
Staff Recommendation: Approve
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Colandra Jones.

Item 4: GMP2026-10001 — DTOutlook Part III, 2026 Amendment (recorded in Part 1 of 2)

Type: Comprehensive Plan conformity determination (CRA plan amendment)
Case Number: GMP2026-10001
Location: Generally south of Lake Ivanhoe, north of W. Gore St., between Westmoreland Dr. and N. Summerlin Ave., including Camping World Stadium to the west — ± 1,664 acres, Districts 3, 4 and 5
Applicant: David Barilla, Executive Director, Orlando Downtown Development Board / Community Redevelopment Area (DDB/CRA)
Owner: N/A
Request: Determination that the DTOutlook Part III 2026 Amendment to the 2015 Update to the Downtown Orlando Community Redevelopment Area Plan — including DTO Action Plan updates and a ±47-acre area expansion increasing the Plan Area to ±1,711 acres — is in conformity with the City's Growth Management Plan.
Staff Recommendation: Approve
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Yolanda Ortiz. Presented to City Council April 6, 2026 as Part 1 of 2 of these minutes.

Item 5: GMP2026-10002 — Urbanized Disturbed Lands Map

Type: Comprehensive Plan Amendment (Conservation Element)
Case Number: GMP2026-10002
Location: Citywide, all districts
Applicant: City of Orlando
Request: Amend Growth Management Plan Conservation Element Figure C-8 (Urbanized Disturbed Lands) to correct the map.
Staff Recommendation: Approve
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Deidre Oge.

Item 6: MPL2025-10064 — Shadowridge Industrial, 5300 Lee Vista Blvd.

Type: Master Plan
Case Number: MPL2025-10064
Location: 5300 Lee Vista Blvd., north of Butler National Dr., east of Shadowridge Dr., south of Lee Vista Blvd., west of Shoalcreek Dr. (± 11.7 acres), District 2
Applicant: Garth Ritter — Ritter Civil
Owner: Famlee Investment, Co.
Request: Master Plan for three new flex-use storage facilities totaling 155,820 sq. ft. on a vacant lot.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Raquel Lozano.

Item 7: MPL2026-10000 — Savannah Park Drive Senior Housing, 10298 Savannah Park Dr.

Type: Master Plan (deferred)
Case Number: MPL2026-10000
Location: 10298 Savannah Park Dr., north of Moss Park Rd., east of Narcoossee Rd., south of Savannah Park Dr., west of Moss Rose Way (± 10.3 acres), District 1
Applicant: William Hockensmith — Thomas and Hutton Engineering
Owner: Ln Senior Housing Re LLC
Request: Master Plan for a 5-story, 78 dwelling unit senior housing project.
Staff Recommendation: Deferral to the April 21, 2026 MPB meeting
Action: Deferred (to April 21, 2026)
Vote: Included in the unanimous consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Sean Elordi.

Consent motion: Board Member Hall moved approval of the Consent Agenda subject to the conditions in the staff reports; Board Member Bastian seconded; passed by unanimous voice vote. (The identical motion is recorded in both Part 1 and Part 2.)

Regular Agenda: None.

Other Business: Paul Lewis, Chief Planning Manager, City Planning Division, provided an update on the appeal for cases GMP2025-10017 and ZON2025-10010, 1600 Aaron Ave.

Public Hearings Summary

Number of speakers: 0 — "No Speaker Requests were received."
General sentiment: No public participation recorded, though two written comments were filed on the Corrine Drive annexation.
Key concerns: None voiced at the meeting. The 1,711-acre downtown CRA plan expansion and a 155,820 sq. ft. industrial master plan passed without a spoken objection.

Key Signals

Orlando expanded its downtown redevelopment plan area by 47 acres in a 17-minute meeting with no chair and no public. The DTOutlook Part III amendment takes the Downtown CRA Plan Area from ±1,664 to ±1,711 acres and updates the DTO Action Plan across three council districts. It was found consistent with the Growth Management Plan on consent, by a board chaired by an acting chair elected on the spot because both the chairperson and vice chairperson were absent. CRA plan-area boundaries determine where tax-increment revenue can be spent; this is the most consequential map change of the month and it drew zero testimony.
Annexation into Orlando is a three-instrument consent item. 2901 Corrine Drive came in as annexation, future-land-use assignment, and initial zoning — all filed together, all recommended together, all approved in one motion, on a 0.2-acre parcel with an AC-N Neighborhood Activity Center designation. Two written comments were filed and no one appeared. For property on Orlando's unincorporated edges, the moment of jurisdiction change and the moment of upzoning are the same hearing.
The industrial-flex wave shows up first at Lee Vista. Shadowridge Industrial's 155,820 sq. ft. of flex-use storage on 11.7 vacant acres is the opening entry in a pattern that runs through this harvest window: 120,000 sq. ft. of warehouse plus 128,000 sq. ft. of light manufacturing at 6650 Narcoossee Rd. in April, 282,380 sq. ft. in two warehouses on John Young Pkwy. and the Averitt truck-yard expansion in June, and a Hazeltine National Dr. warehouse-flex rezoning noticed for August. Southeast Orlando's vacant commercial land is converting to distribution and storage, and none of it has drawn a public speaker.
The City is quietly correcting its own conservation map. GMP2026-10002 amends Growth Management Plan Conservation Element Figure C-8, the Urbanized Disturbed Lands map, "to correct the map." A staff-initiated correction to a conservation figure changes which parcels are treated as already-disturbed for environmental review purposes. It moved on consent with no discussion recorded, in the same month the City parked its Starwood conservation redesignation indefinitely.
Publishing one meeting as two documents is a Council-scheduling artifact worth knowing about. The March minutes exist as "Part 1 of 2" (Item 4 only, to Council April 6) and "Part 2 of 2" (everything else, to Council April 20). Anyone pulling Orlando MPB minutes by date will find two files for March 17, 2026 and neither is complete on its own. Both parts carry a "Revised 3/18/2026" stamp.

Raw Notes

Access provenance: Laserfiche Cloud public portal, City Clerk repository r-b158fc8c. Part 2 of 2: https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=1086060&repo=r-b158fc8c (4 pp.). Part 1 of 2: https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=1086059&repo=r-b158fc8c (2 pp.), DocView at https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/DocView.aspx?id=1086059&repo=r-b158fc8c. In the portal folder tree the two files are named "…Meeting Minutes - March 17, 2026 (2)" and "(3)"; there is no file labelled "(1)".
Mixed text layer. Pages 1–3 of Part 2 and page 1 of Part 1 carry born-digital text; the final page of each part is a scanned image (the signature page, which also carries the consent motion). Those two pages were recovered by OCR (tools/ocr-pdf.py).
Bracketed attendance counters as of March: Bastian [6/0]; Barrott, Daly, Hall, Seacrist and Read all [5/1]; Kendig-Schrader and Moreno [5/0].
The 1600 Aaron Ave. appeal update was delivered in March by Paul Lewis, Chief Planning Manager. From April onward the same standing update is delivered by Tim McClendon, Assistant Planning Division Manager.
Savannah Park Drive Senior Housing was deferred here to April 21, where staff then recommended indefinite deferral. The 78-unit senior project has not returned to an MPB agenda through August 18, 2026.
Adjournment 9:17 a.m. Attested by Jason Burton, Executive Secretary, and Ed Petersen, acting MPB Recording Secretary.

Orlando Municipal Planning Board — March 17, 2026 minutes