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Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission — January 8, 2026 agenda

City of Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission — January 8, 2026 (Agenda)

Agenda-only document. The City of Sanford never published minutes for the January 8, 2026 meeting. The portal's February 5, 2026 meeting record carries no prior-month minutes file, and the archive was checked across all 47 published Planning & Zoning meetings — the January minutes are absent, not merely unfetched. All actions below are Not recorded. Independent evidence that the meeting convened: the February 5, 2026 minutes record a 7-0 vote approving "the minutes for January 8, 2026," so minutes exist as a city record but were never posted publicly.

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (scheduled 10:00 AM, City Commission Chambers, Sanford City Hall, 300 North Park Avenue) Quorum: Not recorded (minutes never published) Duration: Portal recording length 2 hours 5 minutes, indicating the meeting convened and transacted business

Attendance

  • Present: Not recorded (minutes never published)
  • Board roster at this date (from the December 4, 2025 and February 5, 2026 minutes): Victoria Wilson (Chair), Maverick Von Herbulis (Vice-Chair), Dan Matthews, Brian Borman, Nikki Campagna, Ashlee Woodard, Robert Fonseca, Miguel Acosta (Alternate), David Zambrano (Alternate)
  • Staff (typical at this date): Eileen Hinson (Planning Director), Adam Mendenhall (Planning Manager), Josephine Medina (Senior Planner), Darren Ebersole (Planner), Lindsey Greene (City Attorney), Giuliana Pieras (Administrative Coordinator)

Agenda Items

Item PH-1: Seminole Towne Center PD Amendment — First Phase Modification, 200 Towne Center (CONTINUED from December 4, 2025)

  • 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 & 29-19-30-5LW-0400-0000)
  • 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
  • Action: Not recorded (minutes never published)
  • Vote: Not recorded
  • Notable Discussion: Returning after a 7-0 continuance on December 4, 2025 granted for additional advertising. The January notice adds a third parcel (29-19-30-5LW-0400-0000) to the two noticed in December — the re-advertisement widened the case. Downstream evidence: the City Commission adopted Ordinance 4844 establishing Phase 1 of this amendment on February 9, 2026 (recited in the August 6, 2026 sign-program staff report), so the commission's recommendation issued at or shortly after this meeting.

Item PH-2: Planned Development Rezone — Residential, 1201 W. 3rd Street (11.02 acres)

  • Type: PUD / Planned Development Rezone (residential)
  • Case Number: PDR25-000009
  • Location: 1201 W. 3rd Street (Tax Parcels 25-19-30-506-0000-00U0, 25-19-30-507-0100-0000, 25-19-30-507-0200-0000 & 25-19-30-5AG-0716-0010)
  • Applicant: Mike Zaffuto — AVCON INC (property owner City of Sanford Housing Authority)
  • Request: Planned Development Rezone of 11.02 acres to establish residential development.
  • Acreage: 11.02 acres
  • Action: Not recorded (minutes never published)
  • Vote: Not recorded
  • Notable Discussion: A City of Sanford Housing Authority land assembly of four parcels on the west side, rezoning to Planned Development for residential use. This is the first of two Housing Authority PD rezones filed in the same cycle by the same applicant firm — AVCON's Mike Zaffuto also carried PDR25-000013 at 909 Mulberry Avenue (formerly 1500 W. 10th Street) onto the May 7, 2026 agenda.

Public Hearings Summary

  • Number of speakers: Not recorded (minutes never published)
  • General sentiment: Not recorded
  • Key concerns: Not recorded

Key Signals

  • The public housing authority is developing through the developer's mechanism. PDR25-000009 rezones 11.02 acres of City of Sanford Housing Authority land at 1201 W. 3rd Street to Planned Development for residential use, using the same PD-rezone pathway and the same private engineering firm (AVCON, Mike Zaffuto) that private applicants use. A second Housing Authority PD (909 Mulberry Avenue, PDR25-000013) followed onto the May 7, 2026 agenda. Two public-sector residential PDs in one entitlement cycle is a deliberate supply posture on Sanford's west side, distinct from the Live Local Act developer filings driving affordable-housing supply elsewhere in the corpus.
  • Seminole Towne Center's re-advertisement widened the case. The December continuance was for "additional advertising"; the January notice carries three tax parcels where December carried two. Re-noticing enlarged the geography rather than merely curing a defect — worth reading as the applicant taking the continuance as an opportunity.
  • A one-month record hole sits on the corpus's largest commercial conversion. January 8, 2026 is the meeting at which the Seminole Towne Center recommendation most likely issued — Ordinance 4844 was adopted by the City Commission on February 9, 2026 — and it is exactly the meeting whose minutes were never posted. The vote tally, conditions, and any public testimony on a 153,820-square-foot wholesale retail conversion are unavailable from the public record.
  • Sanford's publication discipline is unreliable, and it fails at load-bearing moments. Three 2026 meetings (January 8, May 7, and — at harvest — August 6) have no published minutes, while agendas and staff reports post reliably. The pattern is not a portal outage; it is a minutes-publication gap specific to this city. Any reading of Sanford must treat agendas plus downstream ordinance recitals as the load-bearing evidence and expect disposition detail to be missing.

Raw Notes

  • Business of the Commission as noticed: Call to Order by Victoria Wilson; Moment of Silence; Pledge of Allegiance; Roll Call; Approval of Minutes — December 4, 2025; Swearing in of Evidentiary Witnesses.
  • Only two public hearings noticed — the lightest 2026 agenda in the archive.
  • Filename typo at source: the city posted this agenda as 01-08-2025.pdf on the January 8, 2026 meeting record. The document header reads "Thursday – January 8, 2026," the roll includes the approval of the December 4, 2025 minutes, and the portal dateRecorded is 2026-01-08. The "2025" in the filename is a city clerical error, not a 2025 meeting.
  • Agenda: https://download.avcaptureall.cloud/customer-ed7ee916-5148-4dfd-a246-58b931f264e2/meetings/07c073d2-fe32-4214-b765-8ebf1a29bf02/01-08-2025.pdf
  • Companion staff reports on this meeting record: PH-1 200 Towne Center.pdf, PH-2 .pdf (untitled at source). The same folder hosts 12.04.2025_Minutes.pdf — the December 4, 2025 minutes, harvested separately.
  • The February 5, 2026 minutes record: "Mr. Matthews moved to approve the minutes for January 8, 2026. Ms. Woodard seconded. Motion carried, 7-0." The January minutes therefore exist as a city record; they were never published to the portal.

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