City of Orlando Municipal Planning Board — July 21, 2026

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Yes (8 of 9 seated members present) Duration: 9:00 a.m. – 9:14 a.m. (14 minutes) Location: Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Council Chambers

Attendance

Present: Ryan Seacrist (Chairperson), Carrie Read (Vice-Chairperson), Alfredo Barrott, Jr., Marcos Bastian, Carla Daly, Eric Jackson, Julie Kendig-Schrader, Yasmin Moreno (via Zoom). Stefani Vitale, OCPS Representative (non-voting).
Absent: Trevor Hall
Staff Present: Jason Burton (Executive Secretary), Tim McClendon, Mark Cechman, Paul Lewis, Karl Wielecki, Michaëlle Petion, Doug Metzger, Calandra [Colandra] Jones, Laura Eng, Michele Gibbs, Raquel Lozano, Sean Elordi, Deidre Oge, Shannan Stegman, Yolanda Ortiz, Ed Petersen (City Planning); Melissa Clarke (City Attorney's Office); Gus Castro, Michael Zayas, Steve Greene, Terrence Miller (Transportation Planning); John Groenendaal, Keith Grayson, Michael Folts, Valencia Gilley (Permitting Services); Deb Cole (Wastewater Engineering); Antoinette Cannon (Housing & Community Development); Amber Levesque (City Clerk's Office); Lillian Scott-Payne and Nancy Ottini (Economic Development); Tonie McNealy (Real Estate); Sergeant-at-Arms, OPD.

Prior minutes: June 16, 2026 minutes approved as written (moved Barrott, seconded Read), unanimous voice vote 8-0.

Announcements: Reminder that elections for a new Chair and Vice Chair will be held at the end of the August 18, 2026 hearing.

Conflict declarations: Board member Kendig-Schrader filed Form 8B and abstained on Item 2 (CUP2026-10010), Item 3 (CUP2026-10011), Item 5 (CUP2026-10013, GMP2026-10006 and ZON2026-10006) and Item 6 (MPL2026-10015).

Public comments: No speaker requests were received.

Agenda Items

All six items moved on a single Consent Agenda motion. The Regular Agenda had no items.

Item 1: CUP2026-10009 — 1105 Park Lake St., Accessory Use Parking Lot

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CUP2026-10009
Location: North of Park Lake St., west of N. Mills Ave., east of N. Thornton Ave. (± 0.19 acres), District 3
Applicant: Kevin Hebert, MEI Partners, LLC
Owner: Anh Chau
Request: Conditional Use Permit to allow an accessory use parking lot.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Michele Gibbs.

Item 2: CUP2026-10010 — 703 E. Colonial Dr., Principal Use Parking

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CUP2026-10010
Location: North of E. Colonial Dr., east of N. Summerlin Ave., west of N. Hyer Ave., south of Woodward St. (± 0.16 acres), District 3
Applicant: Joshua Conradi, Kimley-Horn
Owner: AIDS Healthcare Foundation Inc.
Request: Conditional Use Permit to allow principal use parking.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion; Kendig-Schrader abstained
Notable Discussion: None recorded on the dais. A written public comment in opposition (filed by Morgan) is held in the meeting's Laserfiche folder. Project planner Sean Elordi.

Item 3: CUP2026-10011 — 75 S. Ivanhoe Blvd., Holocaust Museum

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CUP2026-10011
Location: S. Ivanhoe Blvd., N. Magnolia Ave. and Legion Pl., adjacent to Lake Ivanhoe and the I-4 Highway (± 2.39 acres), District 3
Applicant: Brooke Chea, HuntonBrady Architects
Owner: City of Orlando
Request: Conditional Use Permit for the Holocaust Museum.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion; Kendig-Schrader abstained
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Laura Eng.

Item 4: CUP2026-10012 — 4200 Arbor Oaks Ct., Residential Care Facility

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CUP2026-10012
Location: West of Cinderlane Pkwy., east of Briar Oaks Cir., southeast of Miracle Rd., north of N. Lake Orlando Pkwy. (± 0.36 acres), District 3
Applicant/Owner: Suze Louijeune, Zion Harbor LLC
Request: Conditional Use Permit to allow a Residential Care Facility within 1,000 ft. of an existing Residential Care Facility.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Raquel Lozano.

Item 5: CUP2026-10013, GMP2026-10006 & ZON2026-10006 — 2019 W. Church St., Events Center

Type: Conditional Use Permit + Comprehensive Plan Amendment + Rezoning
Case Number: CUP2026-10013; GMP2026-10006; ZON2026-10006
Location: North of W. Church St., east of S. Dollins Ave., west of S. Tampa Ave., south of W. Pine St. (± 3.86 acres), District 5
Applicant: Constance Silver, Tri3 Civil Engineering Design Studio, Inc.
Owner: City of Orlando
Request: Conditional Use Permit to allow construction of an event center on three properties; change the Future Land Use designation from Residential Medium Intensity and Mixed-Use Corridor Medium Intensity to Public-Recreational-Institutional; rezone from R-3B and MU-1 to P (Public Use).
Current Zoning: R-3B and MU-1
Proposed Zoning: P
Acreage: ± 3.86 acres
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions (a staff report with addendum was issued)
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion; Kendig-Schrader abstained
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planners Sean Elordi (CUP) and Deidre Oge (GMP/ZON).

Item 6: MPL2026-10015 — 815 Herndon Ave., Multi-Family Development

Type: Master Plan
Case Number: MPL2026-10015
Location: 815 Herndon Ave., east side of Herndon Ave., south of Fox St., west of Bennett Rd., north of E. Colonial Dr. (± 6.6 acres), District 3
Applicant: Marcus Geiger, Kimley-Horn
Owner: Bliss 815 Herndon LLC
Request: Master Plan for a new 378-unit, 5-story multi-family development with an attached 5-story parking garage.
Staff Recommendation: Approve with conditions (a staff report with addendum was issued)
Action: Approved (consent)
Vote: Included in the 8-0 consent motion; Kendig-Schrader abstained
Notable Discussion: None recorded. Project planner Raquel Lozano.

Consent motion: Chairperson Seacrist moved approval of the Consent Agenda subject to the conditions in the staff reports and addenda; Board member Jackson seconded; passed by unanimous voice vote (8-0).

Other Business:

Tim McClendon, Assistant Planning Division Manager, provided an update on the appeal for 1600 Aaron Ave., cases GMP2025-10017 and ZON2025-10010 — the fourth consecutive meeting at which this standing update was delivered.
Recording Secretary Petersen noted the departure of Board members Hall and Bastian, and thanked them for their years of service.

Public Hearings Summary

Number of speakers: 0 — "No speaker requests were received."
General sentiment: No public participation recorded. One written comment in opposition to the 703 E. Colonial Dr. parking CUP is held in the meeting's document folder.
Key concerns: None voiced. A 378-unit apartment complex, a citywide-scale event center rezoning, and a Holocaust Museum conditional use permit were approved in fourteen minutes with no speaker present.

Key Signals

The contested case did not come back. Gulfstream (ZON2026-10003) was deferred on June 16 "to the July 21, 2026 Municipal Planning Board hearing." It is not on the July 21 agenda, not in the July 21 minutes, and not on the August 18, 2026 agenda. A deferral to a date certain that passes without the case being re-noticed leaves the rezoning of the former Catalina Elementary site open with no scheduled hearing. Twenty speakers produced not a denial but a disappearance — the most effective form of opposition available at an Orlando planning board, and the least visible in the record.
378 units on Herndon Avenue cleared with no speaker and no discussion. The largest residential approval of the month — a five-story, 378-unit complex with an attached five-story garage on 6.6 acres just north of E. Colonial Dr. — moved on consent alongside five other items in a fourteen-minute meeting. Read against June, where a 100-unit affordable proposal consumed three hours: in Orlando, the volume of public reaction to a housing project tracks the surrounding neighborhood's tenure and the applicant's identity far more than the unit count.
The City of Orlando was its own applicant twice in one hearing, and rezoned its own land to Public Use. The 2019 W. Church St. package changes 3.86 acres from R-3B and MU-1 to P, converts the future land use to Public-Recreational-Institutional, and authorizes an event center across three City-owned properties. The Holocaust Museum CUP at 75 S. Ivanhoe Blvd. is also on City land. Municipal self-entitlement in Orlando runs through the same consent calendar as everything else, with the same absence of testimony — and here it removes 3.86 acres of residential and mixed-use-designated land from the housing supply.
Both boards are about to turn over at once. Chair and Vice Chair elections are set for the end of the August 18 MPB hearing; the Recording Secretary noted the departure of members Hall and Bastian. On the BZA side, the Executive Secretary changed in July and two members with 13.5 combined years of service ended their terms the same month, with chair elections set for August 25. Between June 23 and August 25, Orlando's two land-use boards will have replaced their staff lead, at least four members, and both sets of officers. Applicants with cases pending across that window are facing a materially different board than the one that reviewed their pre-application.
Kendig-Schrader abstained on four of six items and the consent motion is still recorded as 8-0. The Conflict Declarations block names Items 2, 3, 5 and 6; the motion carries a clean 8-0 tally with no abstention noted. Two-thirds of the July calendar carried a declared voting conflict for one member. Whatever the underlying relationship, it reaches parking CUPs, a museum, a City event center and a 378-unit apartment complex — a breadth worth tracking as the board reconstitutes in August.
A second Residential Care Facility was approved within 1,000 feet of an existing one. CUP2026-10012 waives the separation standard on a 0.36-acre District 3 parcel. Distance-separation rules for residential care exist to prevent clustering; approving through the exception is how clusters form. This is the same mechanism the corpus has tracked in recovery-residence siting elsewhere in Central Florida, appearing here as a routine Orlando consent item.

Raw Notes

Access provenance: Laserfiche Cloud public portal, City Clerk repository r-b158fc8c. Direct PDF: https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=1108622&repo=r-b158fc8c (9 pages). Pages 1–7 carry born-digital text; page 8 is a scanned image (Form 8B) and was not transcribed; page 9 contains only the date "July 23, 2026."
The July 21 meeting folder (https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/Browse.aspx?id=1106207&repo=r-b158fc8c) holds the agenda, all staff reports, both addenda (2019 W. Church St. and 815 Herndon Ave.), and the single public comment — Morgan, in opposition to CUP2026-10010. Neither the addenda nor the comment is reproduced in the minutes.
Tally discrepancy, recorded as printed: the consent motion is minuted as passing 8-0 with eight voting members present, although Kendig-Schrader is recorded as abstaining on four of the six items in that motion. The minutes note no partial tallies.
The staff list spells the planner's name "Calandra Jones"; every other document in this set uses "Colandra Jones."
The signature block is malformed in the source, reading ", AICP, CNU-A, Ed Petersen, Acting MPB Recording Secretary" with "Sec" on the following line — the Executive Secretary's name did not render.
These minutes were not yet approved as of the harvest date; MPB approval would occur at the August 18, 2026 hearing. Status recorded as pending-approval.
Adjournment 9:14 a.m.

Orlando Municipal Planning Board — July 21, 2026 minutes