What were the most significant items on the Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board agenda for October 2025?

· **The October 7 agenda is the cycle's heaviest single substantive docket — Winter Park Racquet Club return, Jewett Orthopedic Institute relocation, and a 10,407 sq ft luxury lakefront home on Isle of Sicily.** Two major CUPs in residential-adjacent contexts plus a high-end lakefront SPR. Whether the agenda items resolved, tabled, or split would be available in the minutes file (not yet posted to CivicClerk at harvest time). · **The Racquet Club's September pivot will be tested at this hearing.** The applicant accepted the September 2 board direction (remove front parking, soften architecture, motor-court approach). The work session of September 29 indicated staff was substantively positive on the revisions. Whether the neighborhood opposition from September 2 (10 opposed speakers) returned in October is the pivot test. · **The Jewett Orthopedic CU surfaces the city-sewer/Duke Energy easement complication as a structural redevelopment friction.** The proposed 27,000 sq ft medical office sits at a complicated easement intersection where above-ground privacy walls may be precluded. The applicant's offer to fund whichever buffer solution is acceptable plus accept maintenance/replacement liability if utilities access the easement is the negotiated middle ground. The City is negotiating Duke Energy compromise. Watch for whether October 7 produced a final disposition or another tabling pending Duke Energy resolution. · **The 10,407 sq ft Isle of Sicily home on Lake Maitland is in the same scale class as the 11,426 sq ft Green Cove Road home approved in March 2026 — suggesting Lake Maitland is hosting the largest new lakefront construction in the corpus.** Two homes over 10,000 sq ft within 5 months on the same lake.

Meeting Reading

Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board

October 7, 2025

4 items on the agenda

**The October 7 agenda is the cycle's heaviest single substantive docket — Winter Park Racquet Club return, Jewett Orthopedic Institute relocation, and a 10,407 sq ft luxury lakefront home on Isle of Sicily.** Two major CUPs in residential-adjacent contexts plus a high-end lakefront SPR. Whether the agenda items resolved, tabled, or split would be available in the minutes file (not yet posted to CivicClerk at harvest time).
**The Racquet Club's September pivot will be tested at this hearing.** The applicant accepted the September 2 board direction (remove front parking, soften architecture, motor-court approach). The work session of September 29 indicated staff was substantively positive on the revisions. Whether the neighborhood opposition from September 2 (10 opposed speakers) returned in October is the pivot test.
**The Jewett Orthopedic CU surfaces the city-sewer/Duke Energy easement complication as a structural redevelopment friction.** The proposed 27,000 sq ft medical office sits at a complicated easement intersection where above-ground privacy walls may be precluded. The applicant's offer to fund whichever buffer solution is acceptable plus accept maintenance/replacement liability if utilities access the easement is the negotiated middle ground. The City is negotiating Duke Energy compromise. Watch for whether October 7 produced a final disposition or another tabling pending Duke Energy resolution.

On October 7, 2025, City of Winter Park's Planning & Zoning Board agenda lists multiple items for hearing. Item 1: SPR #25-12 — site plan review (lakefront) at 1727 Lake Berry Drive. Item 2: SPR #25-11 — site plan review (lakefront) at 3 Isle of Sicily, Lake Maitland. Item 3: CU #25-03 — conditional use permit at 2011/2111 Via Tuscany (Winter Park Racquet Club). 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 Park Planning & Zoning Board — October 7, 2025 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (scheduled) Quorum: [agenda only — minutes not available in source] Note: Minutes were not posted to the CivicClerk portal at harvest time. Item dispositions are inferred from the September 29 work-session preview and from forward references in the November 4, 2025 minutes.

Attendance

[Not available — agenda document only]

Agenda Items

Item 1: SPR #25-12 — 1727 Lake Berry Drive Second-Story Addition (Tabled)

Type: Site Plan Review (Lakefront)
Case Number: SPR #25-12
Location: 1727 Lake Berry Drive
Applicant: James Hobson, S&W Kitchens
Request: 1,174-sq-ft second-story addition (PURD-zoned)
Action: Tabled (per agenda — applicant requested table to November 4, 2025)

Item 2: SPR #25-11 — 3 Isle of Sicily New Home (Lake Maitland)

Type: Site Plan Review (Lakefront)
Case Number: SPR #25-11
Location: 3 Isle of Sicily, Lake Maitland
Applicant: Kamran and Mina Khosravani
Request: Construct a new two-story 10,407 sq ft single-family home
Current Zoning: R-1AAA
Action: [outcome in minutes — not available]

Item 3: CU #25-03 — Winter Park Racquet Club Building Replacement (Returned from September 2 Table)

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CU #25-03
Location: 2011/2111 Via Tuscany (Winter Park Racquet Club)
Applicant: Houseman Architecture (Rob Carter, past president of WPRC)
Request: Demolish existing 5,421-sq-ft two-story building; construct new one-story 6,300-sq-ft building
Background: Tabled from September 2, 2025 with explicit board direction to remove front parking, soften architecture, redesign with motor-court approach. Per the September 29 work session preview, the applicant returned with: front parking removed, replaced with circular paver driveway with single entrance/exit on Via Tuscany and Tom Gurney Drive; building unchanged in size/placement; façade softened with shorter windows; rear pond expanded for additional drainage; enclosed storage garage added; double tree replacement plantings.
Action: [outcome in minutes — not available]

Item 4: CU #25-02 — Jewett Orthopedic Institute Medical Office (1419/1421 Trovillion + 1420/1424/1428 Gay Road)

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CU #25-02
Location: Combined property at 1419 & 1421 Trovillion Avenue and 1420, 1424, & 1428 Gay Road
Applicant: Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.
Request: Construct a 27,000 sq ft two-story medical office building
Background: Per September 29 work session: replaces a previously-approved-but-unbuilt office project from four years prior. Site borders residential condominiums to the west and south. Concerns: overlapping city sewer and Duke Energy easements precluding the previously-agreed 6-foot privacy wall (Duke Energy resisting; alternative fence + enhanced landscaping under negotiation). Architectural style criticized as "overly stark and gray" tilt-wall concrete; revisions expected. Variances anticipated for east-facing wall sign and large window-graphic logo. Parking meets but does not exceed code; reduction not feasible.
Action: [outcome in minutes — not available]

Public Hearings Summary

[Not available — agenda only]

Key Signals

The October 7 agenda is the cycle's heaviest single substantive docket — Winter Park Racquet Club return, Jewett Orthopedic Institute relocation, and a 10,407 sq ft luxury lakefront home on Isle of Sicily. Two major CUPs in residential-adjacent contexts plus a high-end lakefront SPR. Whether the agenda items resolved, tabled, or split would be available in the minutes file (not yet posted to CivicClerk at harvest time).
The Racquet Club's September pivot will be tested at this hearing. The applicant accepted the September 2 board direction (remove front parking, soften architecture, motor-court approach). The work session of September 29 indicated staff was substantively positive on the revisions. Whether the neighborhood opposition from September 2 (10 opposed speakers) returned in October is the pivot test.
The Jewett Orthopedic CU surfaces the city-sewer/Duke Energy easement complication as a structural redevelopment friction. The proposed 27,000 sq ft medical office sits at a complicated easement intersection where above-ground privacy walls may be precluded. The applicant's offer to fund whichever buffer solution is acceptable plus accept maintenance/replacement liability if utilities access the easement is the negotiated middle ground. The City is negotiating Duke Energy compromise. Watch for whether October 7 produced a final disposition or another tabling pending Duke Energy resolution.
The 10,407 sq ft Isle of Sicily home on Lake Maitland is in the same scale class as the 11,426 sq ft Green Cove Road home approved in March 2026 — suggesting Lake Maitland is hosting the largest new lakefront construction in the corpus. Two homes over 10,000 sq ft within 5 months on the same lake.

Raw Notes

Source platform note: The October 7, 2025 minutes were not yet uploaded to the Winter Park CivicClerk portal at the time of this harvest (May 9, 2026). If/when published, this document should be re-issued as a document_type: minutes doc and the actual outcomes and votes recorded.
The November 4, 2025 minutes confirm the October 7, 2025 minutes were approved 5-0 at that meeting — confirming October 7 produced approved minutes that simply haven't been re-published to CivicClerk yet.
The October 7 meeting agenda packet was 227 MB (the largest in the corpus), indicating substantial supporting materials for the Jewett project.