What were the most significant items on the Winter Garden Planning and Zoning Board agenda for June 2026?

· **Ordinance 26-17 closes a code gap the board itself opened ten weeks earlier — a clean pattern-to-precoding loop.** The April 6 Cappleman variance (523 N Woodland) produced an explicit staff commitment to write accessory-structure-vs-primary-structure height provisions; June 1's accessory-buildings code amendment is that commitment arriving. Two more accessory-structure cases landed in between (the 326 S Main 15.5 ft accessory building and the 111 N Central 24 ft detached garage on May 4), confirming the cadence: repeated accessory-structure variances forced a text amendment — Winter Garden's version of the food-truck-CUP-cadence-forces-text-amendment dynamic seen in Clermont, applied to residential accessory structures. Anyone planning a guest house, tall detached garage, or ADU in Winter Garden should read Ordinance 26-17 before designing. · **Dan Langley joins the city legal roster — a second city attorney appearing alongside Ed Williams as planning consultant.** The June 1 agenda lists City Attorney Dan Langley (in addition to Kurt Ardaman) and Planning Consultant Ed Williams, neither of whom appears on the May 4 staff roster. A widening legal/consulting bench around the planning function is a governance signal — it tends to precede a heavier or more litigation-exposed docket (large PUDs like Johns Lake, billboard-relocation agreements, historic-district variance appeals). Worth tracking which items Langley specifically handles. · **Forward docket is small and residential-scale — the spring's big entitlement (613-unit Johns Lake PD) has cleared the board.** After back-to-back heavy May dockets, June reverts to a three-item bench (one cart special exception, one screen-room variance, one code cleanup). The rhythm matches Winter Garden's pattern of clustering major PUD/annexation actions then resetting to routine infill — useful for anyone gauging when the next large application window opens (watch July 6 and beyond). · **"Botero Carts" special exception is a low-information but watchable use case.** A cart-oriented business seeking a special exception on Broad Street could be a mobile-vending/cart-vendor use (echoing the regional food-truck/mobile-vending entitlement wave) or a light cart-assembly use. The agenda face gives no staff context; the May 4 minutes will be approved at this same meeting. Flag for follow-up at minutes-harvest to see how the board treats mobile/cart commerce in Winter Garden's downtown grid.

Meeting Reading

Winter Garden Planning and Zoning Board

June 1, 2026

5 items on the agenda

**Ordinance 26-17 closes a code gap the board itself opened ten weeks earlier — a clean pattern-to-precoding loop.** The April 6 Cappleman variance (523 N Woodland) produced an explicit staff commitment to write accessory-structure-vs-primary-structure height provisions; June 1's accessory-buildings code amendment is that commitment arriving. Two more accessory-structure cases landed in between (the 326 S Main 15.5 ft accessory building and the 111 N Central 24 ft detached garage on May 4), confirming the cadence: repeated accessory-structure variances forced a text amendment — Winter Garden's version of the food-truck-CUP-cadence-forces-text-amendment dynamic seen in Clermont, applied to residential accessory structures. Anyone planning a guest house, tall detached garage, or ADU in Winter Garden should read Ordinance 26-17 before designing.
**Dan Langley joins the city legal roster — a second city attorney appearing alongside Ed Williams as planning consultant.** The June 1 agenda lists City Attorney Dan Langley (in addition to Kurt Ardaman) and Planning Consultant Ed Williams, neither of whom appears on the May 4 staff roster. A widening legal/consulting bench around the planning function is a governance signal — it tends to precede a heavier or more litigation-exposed docket (large PUDs like Johns Lake, billboard-relocation agreements, historic-district variance appeals). Worth tracking which items Langley specifically handles.
**Forward docket is small and residential-scale — the spring's big entitlement (613-unit Johns Lake PD) has cleared the board.** After back-to-back heavy May dockets, June reverts to a three-item bench (one cart special exception, one screen-room variance, one code cleanup). The rhythm matches Winter Garden's pattern of clustering major PUD/annexation actions then resetting to routine infill — useful for anyone gauging when the next large application window opens (watch July 6 and beyond).

On June 1, 2026, City of Winter Garden's Planning and Zoning Board agenda lists multiple items for hearing. Item 1: unknown. Item 2: Parcel ID 23-22-27-7824-00-140 — special exception permit (public hearing) at 88 Broad Street. Item 3: Parcel ID 11-22-27-3897-00-080 — variance (public hearing) at 1023 Sadie Lane. The agenda is the forward-looking civic record — what is on the docket before the meeting occurs. Vote outcomes, public testimony, and final dispositions land in the corresponding minutes record after the meeting.

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City of Winter Garden Planning and Zoning Board — June 1, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (Agenda — forward signal; no votes recorded) Quorum: TBD Posted: May 22, 2026

Roster (Agenda Listing)

Board Members: Chairman Will Hawthorne, Vice-Chairman Steve Ambielli, Linda Bennett, Myron Brown, Jimmy Dunn, Jeff Ewing, TJ Ryan
Other Attendees (staff): City Manager Jon C. Williams, City Attorney Kurt Ardaman, City Attorney Dan Langley, Planning Consultant Ed Williams, Planning Director Kelly Carson, Planning Supervisor Shane Friedman, Senior Planner Yvonne Conatser, Planner II Amber McDonald, Recording Secretary Colene Rivera / Ellen King

Agenda Items

Item 2.A: Approval of Minutes — May 4, 2026

Action: Pending
Notable: The May 4 minutes carry the 613-unit Johns Lake PD UVPUD approval and Ordinance 26-16 (I-1/I-2 ERU water-threshold code amendment); approval here finalizes that record.

Item 3.A: Broad Street – 88 (Botero Carts) — Special Exception

Type: Special Exception Permit (Public Hearing)
Case Number: Parcel ID 23-22-27-7824-00-140
Location: 88 Broad Street
Applicant: Botero Carts
Request: Special Exception (use details not stated on the agenda face; applicant name "Botero Carts" indicates a cart/mobile-vending or cart-manufacturing/sales use). Staff report not attached to the agenda text.
Action: Pending
Staff Context: Not stated on agenda; full staff analysis to be presented at the hearing.
Notable Discussion: Pending — to be heard.

Item 4.A: Sadie Lane – 1023 (Gallo Screen Room) — Variance

Type: Variance (Public Hearing)
Case Number: Parcel ID 11-22-27-3897-00-080
Location: 1023 Sadie Lane
Applicant: Gallo (residential owner; "Screen Room" indicates a setback/lot-coverage variance for an enclosed screen enclosure)
Request: Variance to permit a screen room (likely a rear- or side-yard setback or lot-coverage relief). Specifics not on the agenda face.
Action: Pending
Staff Context: Not stated on agenda.
Notable Discussion: Pending — to be heard.

Item 5.A: Ordinance 26-17 — Code Amendment, Accessory Buildings & Structures

Type: Text Amendment (Public Hearing — "City of Winter Garden Code Updates")
Case Number: Ordinance 26-17
Location: Citywide
Applicant: City of Winter Garden (staff-initiated)
Request: Amend the accessory-buildings-and-structures provisions of the city code.
Action: Pending
Staff Context: This is the materialization of the code-gap commitment staff made at the April 6, 2026 PZB meeting on the 523 N Woodland (Cappleman) variance — where a 23 ft accessory-structure roof in front of a one-story primary structure exposed the absence of any rule tying accessory-structure height to the primary structure. Ordinance 26-17 is the resulting accessory-structure code revision. The May 4 historic-district garage fight (111 N Central live-oak removal for a city-mandated detached garage) and the 326 S Main accessory-building height variance are additional pressure points in the same docket.
Notable Discussion: Pending — to be heard.

Item 6: Adjourn

Next regular Planning and Zoning Board meeting: Monday, July 6, 2026, 6:30 PM, City Hall Commission Chambers, 300 W. Plant Street, Winter Garden, Florida.

Public Hearings Summary

Public-hearing items: 3 (Botero Carts special exception, Gallo screen-room variance, Ordinance 26-17 accessory-structures code amendment)
General sentiment: Unknown (agenda — pre-hearing)
Key concerns: Unknown; the accessory-structures code amendment (Item 5.A) is the item most likely to draw historic-core resident attention given the May 4 live-oak/garage dispute.

Key Signals

Ordinance 26-17 closes a code gap the board itself opened ten weeks earlier — a clean pattern-to-precoding loop. The April 6 Cappleman variance (523 N Woodland) produced an explicit staff commitment to write accessory-structure-vs-primary-structure height provisions; June 1's accessory-buildings code amendment is that commitment arriving. Two more accessory-structure cases landed in between (the 326 S Main 15.5 ft accessory building and the 111 N Central 24 ft detached garage on May 4), confirming the cadence: repeated accessory-structure variances forced a text amendment — Winter Garden's version of the food-truck-CUP-cadence-forces-text-amendment dynamic seen in Clermont, applied to residential accessory structures. Anyone planning a guest house, tall detached garage, or ADU in Winter Garden should read Ordinance 26-17 before designing.
Dan Langley joins the city legal roster — a second city attorney appearing alongside Ed Williams as planning consultant. The June 1 agenda lists City Attorney Dan Langley (in addition to Kurt Ardaman) and Planning Consultant Ed Williams, neither of whom appears on the May 4 staff roster. A widening legal/consulting bench around the planning function is a governance signal — it tends to precede a heavier or more litigation-exposed docket (large PUDs like Johns Lake, billboard-relocation agreements, historic-district variance appeals). Worth tracking which items Langley specifically handles.
Forward docket is small and residential-scale — the spring's big entitlement (613-unit Johns Lake PD) has cleared the board. After back-to-back heavy May dockets, June reverts to a three-item bench (one cart special exception, one screen-room variance, one code cleanup). The rhythm matches Winter Garden's pattern of clustering major PUD/annexation actions then resetting to routine infill — useful for anyone gauging when the next large application window opens (watch July 6 and beyond).
"Botero Carts" special exception is a low-information but watchable use case. A cart-oriented business seeking a special exception on Broad Street could be a mobile-vending/cart-vendor use (echoing the regional food-truck/mobile-vending entitlement wave) or a light cart-assembly use. The agenda face gives no staff context; the May 4 minutes will be approved at this same meeting. Flag for follow-up at minutes-harvest to see how the board treats mobile/cart commerce in Winter Garden's downtown grid.

Raw Notes

Source: Winter Garden CivicClerk tenant wintergardenfl; PZB agenda for June 1, 2026 (single-page agenda, posted May 22, 2026; contact Colene Rivera, CSR). Agenda text is thin — item titles and parcel IDs only, no attached staff reports — so Request descriptions above are inferred from applicant names and item types and explicitly flagged where specifics are not on the agenda face.
This is forward signal: actions marked Pending. Harvest the resulting minutes after June 1 to resolve outcomes (especially Ordinance 26-17 accessory-structure provisions).
Item 2.A approving the May 4 minutes is the procedural close on the Johns Lake 613-unit UVPUD and the Ordinance 26-16 ERU water-threshold amendment.
Next regular meeting July 6, 2026.