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Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — February 3, 2026 agenda

City of Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — February 3, 2026 (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 carries Agenda (fileId 4789) and Agenda Packet (fileId 4791) only. No Minutes file has been published in the six months since the meeting. This is an agenda-only harvest — what was scheduled, not what was decided.

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 January 6, 2026

  • Type: Consent (approval of prior minutes)
  • Estimated time: 1 minute
  • See 2026-01-meeting-PZB.md for the January 6, 2026 record.

Item 1: Lakefront Lot-Split Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment (1020 Palmer Avenue) — continuance requested

  • Type: Comprehensive Plan Amendment (text amendment to the Future Land Use Element)
  • Case Number: [carried on this agenda without a case number; the same request is docketed as CPA #25-05 on the December 2, 2025 and June 2, 2026 agendas]
  • 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]
  • Estimated time: 5 minutes — the agenda budgets a procedural slot, not a hearing
  • Action: Continuance requested. The agenda states: "Applicant will be requesting a continuance of this request to June 2, 2026 to give time to present this request to the Historic Preservation Board; continuance subject to P&Z approval."
  • 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.

Public Hearings Summary

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

The lakefront lot-split amendment was the only advertised public hearing, and the agenda flags that the applicant would seek a four-month continuance rather than proceed.

Key Signals

  • The applicant routed the lakefront lot-split amendment through the Historic Preservation Board before returning to P&Z — and the stated reason is printed on the agenda. The continuance to June 2, 2026 was requested "to give time to present this request to the Historic Preservation Board." That sequencing tells you where the real obstacle sat: not the comprehensive plan text, but the 1939 James Gamble Rogers residence known as Merrywood standing on the parcel. By the June 2 hearing the applicant arrived with a structural engineering report concluding the house should not be saved and a record of roughly 100 vetted tours that produced no preservation buyer. The continuance was record-building, and it worked — the board approved the applicant's policy 4-2 and rejected staff's historic-preservation-gated alternative.
  • Two consecutive Winter Park P&Z regular meetings produced no published minutes because their only item was deferred. December 2, 2025 and February 3, 2026 both carry Agenda plus Agenda Packet and no Minutes on CivicClerk. Anyone reconstructing the 1020 Palmer decision trail from minutes alone would see the item vanish after November 2025 and reappear in June 2026 with no visible intervening procedure. The agendas are the only record that the deferrals happened and why.
  • The estimated-time field is a leading indicator. Five minutes budgeted for a comprehensive plan amendment signals the city clerk knew the item was not being heard. Compare the same item on June 2, 2026, budgeted at 60 minutes, where the hearing ran the meeting to 6:59 p.m. Winter Park's published time estimates are a reliable read on whether an item is scheduled to be argued or scheduled to be moved.
  • Winter Park's P&Z docket ran effectively empty from December 2025 through February 2026. One deferred item in December, one deferred item in February, no January regular-meeting backlog carried forward, and the work sessions of November 25, December 23, and February 24 all cancelled. For anyone tracking permitting velocity, Winter Park's winter 2025–26 was a genuine trough, not a records gap — the March 3 and April 7 meetings resumed with full dockets.

Raw Notes

  • Source platform note: Harvested from the February 3, 2026 PZB agenda (CivicClerk winterparkfl tenant, agendaId 1420, event 2722). Files present as of 2026-08-08: Agenda (4789), Agenda Packet (4791). No Minutes file exists.
  • This agenda states the item's request text without a case number, unlike the December 2, 2025 and June 2, 2026 agendas which both label it CPA #25-05. Same request, same applicant, same subject property.
  • The continuance is described as "subject to P&Z approval," so a procedural vote presumably occurred on February 3. Without published minutes, the tally is unrecorded.
  • The February 24, 2026 P&Z work session was cancelled (CivicClerk event 2747, agendaId 0, zero files), so no work-session preview of this item exists between February and the March 31 session.
  • Downstream: the item was heard June 2, 2026 and approved 4-2 as Policy 1-5.1.8 (2026-06-meeting-PZB.md).

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