City of Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission — December 4, 2025

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: Yes (7 of 9 members present) Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes (10:03 AM – 11:47 AM)

Attendance

• Present: Victoria Wilson (Chair), Maverick Von Herbulis (Vice-Chair), Brian Borman, Dan Matthews, Ashlee Woodard, Robert Fonseca, Miguel Acosta
• Absent: David Zambrano, Nikki Campagna (both absences excused 7-0 on motion by Matthews, seconded by Acosta)
• Staff Present: Eileen Hinson (Planning Director), Giuliana Pieras (Administrative Coordinator), Lindsey Greene (City Attorney), Adam Mendenhall (Planning Manager), Darren Ebersole (Planner)

Agenda Items

Item PH-1: Seminole Towne Center PD Amendment — First Phase Modification, 200 Towne Center

• Type: PUD / Planned Development amendment (quasi-judicial)
• Case Number: PDR25-000006
• Location: 200 Towne Center (Tax Parcels 29-19-30-5LW-0100-0000 & 29-19-30-5LW-010B-0000)
• Applicant: Susan Lorentz — Kimley-Horn (property owner TAC Seminole Towne Center LLC)
• Request: Amend a portion of 40.24 acres within the Seminole Towne Center Planned Development for the first phase modification.
• Current Zoning: PD, Planned Development
• Acreage: portion of 40.24 acres
• Staff Recommendation: Not recorded in the minutes
• Action: Continued to the January 8, 2026 meeting
• Vote: 7-0 (Borman moved, Von Herbulis seconded)
• Conditions: N/A (continued)
• Notable Discussion: Continued "to allow for additional advertising and further discussion" — a noticing sufficiency continuance rather than a merits objection. One resident spoke: Mary Snipes (440 S. Summerlin Avenue) supported the project, stating she is a long-time Costco member and would welcome one in Sanford. The minutes do not otherwise identify the tenant.

Public Hearings Summary

• Number of speakers: 1
• General sentiment: Supportive
• Key concerns: None raised in opposition. The single speaker's comment identified the anticipated anchor tenant as a Costco.

Key Signals

• The regional mall at the I-4 / SR-417 node begins converting. Seminole Towne Center — 40.24 acres of an existing Planned Development at Sanford's most-trafficked interchange — opened a first-phase modification (PDR25-000006). The item was continued 7-0 for additional advertising, not on the merits. The record's only public comment named a Costco. The downstream record confirms the scale: City Commission Ordinance 4844, adopted February 9, 2026, established Phase 1 as a 153,820-square-foot wholesale retail center with a 2,219-square-foot liquor store, tire-only vehicle service, and gasoline fuel pumps (recited in the August 6, 2026 sign-program staff report). Enclosed-mall land is becoming wholesale-club retail.
• A noticing defect, not opposition, set the schedule. The continuance was granted for additional advertising on a case that had already been noticed — a procedural slip on the largest commercial entitlement in Sanford's pipeline. The case then carried into January 8, 2026, whose minutes the city never published, making the intermediate steps unreadable from the public record.
• Full board, pre-turnover. Seven of nine members seated under Chair Victoria Wilson, with Von Herbulis as Vice-Chair. This is the last stable configuration before the February 2026 resignation that moved Von Herbulis into the chair — useful as the baseline against which 2026's thinner quorums (4-0 in March, 5-0 in June, quorum failure in July) should be read.
• Ethics posture on the record. Staff noticed two December ethics sessions — a Florida League of Cities online ethics course (December 17) and a City of Sanford Ethics & Sunshine Law training (December 18) — immediately before a year in which the board would handle city-owned land as an applicant.

Raw Notes

• Called to order 10:03 AM by Chair Victoria Wilson; adjourned 11:47 AM.
• Minutes item as printed: "Mr. VonHerbulis moved to approve the minutes for December 4, 2025. Mrs. Woodard seconded. Motion carried, 7-0." Read as a clerical error in the minutes — a board cannot approve its own same-day minutes; the November 6, 2025 minutes were the document before it (the November meeting folder hosts 10.02.2025_Minutes2.pdf, and the December folder hosts 11.06.2025_Minutes.pdf). Recorded here as printed.
• Citizen Participation (general): none. Commissioners Reports: none.
• Approval status: this document was published on the January 8, 2026 meeting record for approval at that meeting. Because the January 8, 2026 minutes were never published, formal approval is unconfirmed — front matter carries pending-approval.
• Source document: https://download.avcaptureall.cloud/customer-ed7ee916-5148-4dfd-a246-58b931f264e2/meetings/07c073d2-fe32-4214-b765-8ebf1a29bf02/12.04.2025_Minutes.pdf (hosted on the January 8, 2026 meeting folder, per the AV Capture All prior-month minutes convention).
• Companion staff report on the December meeting record: PH-1 200 Towne Center Circle PD Amendment.pdf.