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Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — December 2, 2025 agenda

City of Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — December 2, 2025 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: [not available — the City of Winter Park has never published minutes for this meeting] Duration: [not available] Location: City Hall Commission Chambers, 401 S. Park Avenue

Records note: As of August 8, 2026 the CivicClerk record for this meeting carries two files only — Agenda (fileId 4564) and Agenda Packet (fileId 4565). No Minutes file has been published in the twenty months since the meeting. This document is therefore an agenda-only harvest: it records what was scheduled, not what was decided. Nothing below should be read as an outcome.

Attendance

  • Present: [not available — no minutes published]
  • Absent: [not available — no minutes published]
  • Staff Present: [not available — no minutes published]

Agenda Items

Consent: Minutes of November 4, 2025

  • Type: Consent (approval of prior minutes)
  • Estimated time: 1 minute
  • See 2025-11-meeting-PZB.md for the November 4, 2025 record.

Item 1: CPA #25-05 — Lakefront Lot-Split Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment (1020 Palmer Avenue)

  • Type: Comprehensive Plan Amendment (text amendment to the Future Land Use Element)
  • Case Number: CPA #25-05
  • Location: Text amendment to Chapter 58 "Land Development Code" Article I, "Comprehensive Plan"; the agenda states the amendment "will impact 1020 Palmer Avenue"
  • Applicant: Tara Tedrow
  • Request: An ordinance adding a new policy to the text of the Future Land Use Element to permit the subdivision or lot split of lakefront property meeting specific criteria.
  • Current Zoning: [not stated on this agenda — R-1AAA per the June 2, 2026 record]
  • Proposed Zoning: No zoning change; comprehensive plan text only
  • Acreage: [not stated on this agenda]
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on this agenda]
  • Action: Tabled before the hearing — the agenda itself carries the notation "At the request of the applicant, this item has been tabled until February 3, 2026."
  • Vote: [not available — no minutes published]
  • Conditions: [none applicable]
  • Notable Discussion: [not available — no minutes published]

Remaining agenda structure (no items scheduled)

Public Comments (three minutes per speaker), Action Items, Non-Action Items, Staff Updates, Board Comments, Upcoming Agenda Items, Adjournment. No items were listed under Action or Non-Action.

Public Hearings Summary

  • Number of speakers: [not available — no minutes published]
  • General sentiment: [not available]
  • Key concerns: [not available]

CPA #25-05 was the meeting's only advertised public hearing, and the agenda records it as tabled at the applicant's request before the hearing date.

Key Signals

  • The most consequential Winter Park land-use decision of the cycle was deferred off its own agenda before anyone spoke. CPA #25-05 — the comprehensive plan text amendment that would break the city's standing prohibition on splitting lakefront estate lots — first surfaced on this December 2, 2025 agenda and was tabled at the applicant's request to February 3, 2026 without a hearing. It was then continued again on February 3 to June 2, 2026, and finally approved 4-2 on June 2. Seven months elapsed between the first noticed hearing and the vote. For anyone reading Winter Park's lakefront policy, the tabling chain is the story: the applicant controlled the clock, and the deferrals were used to build the record (structural engineering report, marketing of the home to preservation buyers, Historic Preservation Board consultation) that ultimately carried the vote.
  • Winter Park does not publish minutes for every P&Z meeting. Twenty months after the fact, this meeting has an Agenda and an Agenda Packet on CivicClerk and no Minutes file. The same is true of February 3, 2026 and October 7, 2025. The pattern is consistent: when a regular meeting's only substantive item is deferred, the city appears not to produce a published minutes document. The practical consequence for anyone reconstructing a decision trail is that deferral meetings are visible only through agendas — the deferral itself is on the record, but attendance, discussion, and any procedural vote on the continuance are not.
  • A single-item December docket is itself a read on Winter Park's development volume. One advertised public hearing, no action items, no non-action items. Winter Park's P&Z throughput is concentrated in lakefront site plan reviews and a small number of high-stakes conditional uses and text amendments; when the marquee item slips, the docket empties. Contrast the August 4, 2026 agenda, which carries eight public hearings including six lakefront applications — the same board eight months later running at roughly eight times the item volume.
  • Tara Tedrow appears here as the applicant, not as counsel for a third party. The corpus tracks Tedrow (Lowndes) across the US-27 corridor in Lake County. Her appearance on a Winter Park comprehensive plan amendment — and, per the June 2, 2026 minutes, as the contract purchaser of the subject property — is a cross-jurisdictional exhibit for the cross-corridor-legal-counsel-network pattern, with the escalation that the attorney is principal rather than representative.

Raw Notes

  • Source platform note: Harvested from the December 2, 2025 PZB agenda (CivicClerk winterparkfl tenant, agendaId 1377, event 2182). Files present as of 2026-08-08: Agenda (4564), Agenda Packet (4565). No Minutes file exists.
  • Meeting structure as advertised: Call to Order → Consent Agenda (Nov 4 minutes) → Public Comments → Public Hearings (CPA #25-05, tabled) → Action Items → Non-Action Items → Staff Updates → Board Comments → Upcoming Agenda Items → Adjournment.
  • The tabling notation is printed on the face of the agenda, meaning the deferral was known at publication and the item was never heard on December 2.
  • Downstream: the February 3, 2026 agenda (2026-02-agenda-PZB.md) carries the same item with a further continuance request to June 2, 2026 "to give time to present this request to the Historic Preservation Board." The item was heard and approved 4-2 on June 2, 2026 (2026-06-meeting-PZB.md).
  • The three P&Z work sessions that would normally have fallen in this window — November 25, 2025, December 23, 2025, and February 24, 2026 — were all cancelled (CivicClerk event names carry a "- CANCELED" suffix, agendaId 0, zero files).

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