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Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission — July 9, 2026 minutes

City of Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission — July 9, 2026

Meeting cancelled for lack of quorum. Three members appeared. The meeting was called to order at 10:10 AM, cancelled by motion, and adjourned at 10:13 AM. All nine noticed items were continued to August 6, 2026. No business was transacted.

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (rescheduled from July 2, 2026; cancelled on the record for lack of quorum) Quorum: No (3 members present) Duration: 3 minutes (10:10 AM – 10:13 AM)

Attendance

  • Present: Dan Matthews (Vice-Chair, presiding), Ashlee Woodard, Miguel Acosta (Alternate)
  • Absent: Maverick Von Herbulis (Chair), Brian Borman, Nikki Campagna, David Zambrano (Alternate)
  • Staff Present: Eileen Hinson (Planning Director), Giuliana Pieras (Administrative Coordinator), Lindsay Greene (City Attorney), Adam Mendenhall (Planning Manager), Josephine Medina (Senior Planner), Darren Ebersole (Planner)

Agenda Items

Item: Cancellation of the Meeting and Continuance of All Public Hearings

  • Type: Other (procedural)
  • Case Number: N/A
  • Location: N/A
  • Applicant: N/A
  • Request: Cancel the meeting for lack of a quorum and continue all public hearing items to the August 6, 2026 meeting.
  • Action: Approved
  • Vote: 3-0 (Acosta moved, Woodard seconded)
  • Conditions: All noticed items continued to August 6, 2026.
  • Notable Discussion: None recorded. The minutes contain no substantive discussion of any noticed item.

Items Noticed and Continued Without Being Heard

The following were advertised on the July 9, 2026 agenda and carried to August 6, 2026 without action. Recorded here for the noticing record; no staff recommendation, action or vote exists for any of them at this meeting.

  • C-1 — Comprehensive Sign Program, 4039 Zanzibar Way (Queens Crossing Development). DP26-000006. Parcels 03-20-31-300-0090-0000, 03-20-31-501-0A00-0040, 03-20-31-300-009A-0000. Owner Jessup Acquisitions LLC & Metro Developers Group Inc. Applicant Joel White — White Sign Company.
  • C-2 — Comprehensive Sign Program, 200 Towne Center Circle (Seminole Towne Center PD, Phase 1). DP26-000016. Parcels 29-19-30-5LW-0400-0000, 29-19-30-5LW-0100-0000, 29-19-30-5LW-1300-0000. Owners 320 Towne Center Circle LLC & TAC Seminole Towne Center LLC. Applicant Jeffrey Rivera.
  • PH-1 — Conditional Use to expand a non-conforming use, 303 Laurel Avenue. CU26-000006. Parcel 25-19-30-5AG-0507-0070. Owner SA Properties Inc. Applicant Andrew Giannini — AMG-ENG Consulting LLC.
  • PH-2 — Conditional Use for indoor non-hazardous manufacturing of alcohol accessory to a bar, 121 W. 1st Street. CU26-000015. Parcel 25-19-30-5AG-0304-002A. Owner Sanford Land & Cattle Co LLC. Applicant Johnathan Wolverton — Deviant Wolfe Brewing.
  • PH-3 — Conditional Use to re-establish a single-family residence in GC-2, 1314 Olive Avenue. CU26-000016. Parcel 35-19-30-5AJ-0C00-0390. Nine family owners of record. Applicant Sarah Maier — Dewberry.
  • PH-4 — Conditional Use for Urban Infill for indoor storage and manufacturing of hazardous materials, 2529 Magnolia Avenue. CU26-000020. Parcel 01-20-30-300-001B-0000. Owner Magnolia Ave LLC. Applicant Danielle Scimeca — FCT Water Treatment Inc.
  • PH-5 — Land Development Regulations, Schedule E (Additional Requirements & Provisions for Specific Uses). Legislative. Applicant Adam Mendenhall — Planning Manager, City of Sanford. (Renumbered PH-7 on the August 6 agenda.)

Public Hearings Summary

  • Number of speakers: 0 — no public hearing was opened
  • General sentiment: N/A
  • Key concerns: N/A

Key Signals

  • A rescheduled meeting still failed quorum, and seven cases lost a month. Staff announced on June 4 that the July meeting had been moved from July 2 to July 9 — presumably to improve attendance around the holiday. Three of seven seated members appeared anyway. Every noticed item, including two comprehensive sign programs on the city's two largest commercial developments, moved to August 6 without being heard. Sanford's board attendance has been degrading all year: nine members in February, six in April, five in June, three in July.
  • The quorum failure extended a citywide storage-use freeze by a month. The continued Schedule E rewrite is the code amendment that ends the Zoning in Progress the City Commission approved June 8, 2026, which temporarily limits new applications involving storage-related uses. Until Schedule E is recommended and adopted, the freeze stays on. A three-minute meeting therefore had a substantive regulatory consequence: one more month during which storage applications cannot proceed.
  • Downtown's conditional-use queue is where the drag lands. Four of the continued public hearings are Urban Infill or nonconforming-use flexibility requests inside the historic core and its edges — a distillery expansion at 121 W. 1st Street, a warehouse expansion at 303 Laurel Avenue, a single-family re-establishment at 1314 Olive Avenue, and hazardous-materials manufacturing at 2529 Magnolia Avenue. These are small applicants whose projects are gated on a discretionary hearing; a month of board absenteeism is a month of carrying costs for each.
  • The alternate carried the meeting. Miguel Acosta, an alternate, moved the cancellation and the two seated members present seconded and voted it. Alternates have been load-bearing all year in Sanford — Acosta voted as a substitute member for the second half of the February meeting and again through the entire June meeting. The board's effective working majority now depends on its alternates showing up.

Raw Notes

  • Called to order 10:10 AM by Vice-Chair Matthews; adjourned 10:13 AM. Portal recording length: 50 seconds.
  • Sole motion: "Mr. Acosta moved to cancel the meeting due to the lack of a quorum and continue all public hearing items to the August 6, 2026, meeting. Ms. Woodard seconded the motion. The motion carried 3-0."
  • Business of the Commission as noticed but not reached: Approval of Minutes — June 4, 2026; Swearing in of Evidentiary Witnesses. The June 4 minutes were consequently carried to the August 6 agenda alongside these.
  • Citizen Participation, Staff Reports and Commissioner's Reports: no entries. Minutes signed by Chair Maverick Von Herbulis, who was not present.
  • The July 9 meeting record carries no staff reports — only the agenda. Every staff report for the continued items was re-posted on the August 6 record, each headed "Continued From The July 9, 2026 Agenda."
  • Minutes: https://download.avcaptureall.cloud/customer-ed7ee916-5148-4dfd-a246-58b931f264e2/meetings/a964615c-c131-4d39-9234-b4d8dd43dba4/07.09.2026.pdf
  • Agenda: https://download.avcaptureall.cloud/customer-ed7ee916-5148-4dfd-a246-58b931f264e2/meetings/460b7a3d-a548-4831-a0be-525cdda24de7/07-09-2026%20(1).pdf
  • Approval status: posted on the August 6, 2026 meeting record for approval at that meeting. August 6 minutes not published at harvest, so approval is unconfirmed — front matter carries pending-approval.

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