What were the most significant items on the Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board agenda for May 2026?

· **The Holler Orlando RV CU returns from a 30-day table — the test of whether the applicant's traffic and visual-impact concessions satisfy the board and the N. Kentucky Avenue residents.** This is the May 5 docket's highest-stakes item. The April 7 record contains: 5-0 unanimous tabling, board direction to provide visual concepts and discuss traffic with staff in a work session, eight residents who didn't confirm position, and a CBA-vested-C-3 entitlement that is unique in the corpus. Watch the outcome category — approval (with conditions), continued tabling, denial, or withdrawn — and the vote tally. · **The withdrawal of the 210 Stirling Avenue lot split is significant.** The applicant withdrew a historic-district lot split that the January 27 work session had previewed as potentially viable. Withdrawal can mean: the applicant lost confidence, the neighbor opposition organized further, or a new applicant strategy is forming. Either way, the historic-district-lot-split path remains procedurally hostile in Winter Park even when board members initially indicated openness to specific cases. · **The El Car Wash Conditional Use is the cycle's first new car-wash CUP in the corpus.** Automated car washes in C-3 zones are CUP-required because of traffic and noise impact concerns. The Aloma Avenue / Lander Road location is at the eastern edge of Winter Park's commercial activity. The board's response (conditions, vote) will establish a precedent for any subsequent automated-car-wash applications. · **A 652-sq-ft Lake Berry addition rounds out the typical Winter Park lakefront docket.** Smaller additions (under 1,000 sq ft) routinely pass at PZB if they meet FAR, setbacks, and tree/view criteria. This is the operational baseline against which more contested items are measured.

Meeting Reading

Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board

May 5, 2026

4 items on the agenda

**The Holler Orlando RV CU returns from a 30-day table — the test of whether the applicant's traffic and visual-impact concessions satisfy the board and the N. Kentucky Avenue residents.** This is the May 5 docket's highest-stakes item. The April 7 record contains: 5-0 unanimous tabling, board direction to provide visual concepts and discuss traffic with staff in a work session, eight residents who didn't confirm position, and a CBA-vested-C-3 entitlement that is unique in the corpus. Watch the outcome category — approval (with conditions), continued tabling, denial, or withdrawn — and the vote tally.
**The withdrawal of the 210 Stirling Avenue lot split is significant.** The applicant withdrew a historic-district lot split that the January 27 work session had previewed as potentially viable. Withdrawal can mean: the applicant lost confidence, the neighbor opposition organized further, or a new applicant strategy is forming. Either way, the historic-district-lot-split path remains procedurally hostile in Winter Park even when board members initially indicated openness to specific cases.
**The El Car Wash Conditional Use is the cycle's first new car-wash CUP in the corpus.** Automated car washes in C-3 zones are CUP-required because of traffic and noise impact concerns. The Aloma Avenue / Lander Road location is at the eastern edge of Winter Park's commercial activity. The board's response (conditions, vote) will establish a precedent for any subsequent automated-car-wash applications.

On May 5, 2026, City of Winter Park's Planning & Zoning Board agenda lists multiple items for hearing. Item 1: CU #26-02 — conditional use permit + community benefit agreement at 860 West Fairbanks Avenue. Item 2: SPR #26-04 — site plan review (lakefront) at 673 Balmoral Road, Lake Berry. Item 3: CU #26-03 — conditional use permit at 2011 Aloma Avenue and 416 Lander Road. 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 — May 5, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting (scheduled — meeting occurs after harvest date) Quorum: [not yet held at harvest time] Note: Meeting occurs four days after the harvest date (May 9, 2026 in calendar terms is the harvest day; May 5 had occurred). Minutes are not posted to CivicClerk; agenda packet contains only the scheduling information and item descriptions.

Attendance

[Not yet recorded — meeting in present-tense at harvest]

Agenda Items

Item 1: CU #26-02 — 860 W. Fairbanks Avenue (Holler Orlando RV) Conditional Use (Returning from April 7 Table)

Type: Conditional Use Permit + Community Benefit Agreement
Case Number: CU #26-02
Location: 860 West Fairbanks Avenue
Applicant: Z Development Services
Request: Construct four one-story buildings totaling 29,760 sq ft on a vested C-3 parcel; alcohol sales within 300 feet of residential properties; with a Community Benefit Agreement
Background: Tabled from April 7 to allow a work session on traffic concerns and to give the applicant time to provide visual concepts of community impacts. Substantive friction: traffic on Fairbanks/Denning/Capen, restricted ingress/egress design, eight unconfirmed-position N. Kentucky Avenue speakers at the April 7 hearing.
Action: [outcome in minutes — not yet available]

Item 2: SPR #26-04 — 673 Balmoral Road Lakefront Additions (Lake Berry)

Type: Site Plan Review (Lakefront)
Case Number: SPR #26-04
Location: 673 Balmoral Road, Lake Berry
Applicant: Verge Properties
Request: Construct 652-sq-ft additions to existing single-family home
Current Zoning: R-1AAA
Action: [outcome — not yet available]

Item 3: CU #26-03 — El Car Wash Conditional Use (2011 Aloma Avenue / 416 Lander Road)

Type: Conditional Use Permit
Case Number: CU #26-03
Location: 2011 Aloma Avenue and 416 Lander Road
Applicant: El Car Wash Florida, LLC
Request: Construct a new 3,700 sq ft automated car wash facility
Current Zoning: C-3
Action: [outcome — not yet available]

Item 4: SUB #26-01 — 210 Stirling Avenue Lot Split (Virginia Heights East Historic District) — WITHDRAWN

Type: Subdivision (with lot dimension variances)
Case Number: SUB #26-01
Location: 210 Stirling Avenue (Virginia Heights East Historic District)
Applicant: William R. Prather
Request: Split the lot into two single-family R-1AA lots, with lot-dimension variances
Background: Per the January 27, 2026 work session — the original framing was to retain the historic house on the front lot and create a new buildable lot in a "panhandle" shape. Opposition from one neighbor; broader neighborhood support.
Action: WITHDRAWN BY APPLICANT (per agenda)

Public Hearings Summary

[Not yet held — see future minutes for outcome]

Key Signals

The Holler Orlando RV CU returns from a 30-day table — the test of whether the applicant's traffic and visual-impact concessions satisfy the board and the N. Kentucky Avenue residents. This is the May 5 docket's highest-stakes item. The April 7 record contains: 5-0 unanimous tabling, board direction to provide visual concepts and discuss traffic with staff in a work session, eight residents who didn't confirm position, and a CBA-vested-C-3 entitlement that is unique in the corpus. Watch the outcome category — approval (with conditions), continued tabling, denial, or withdrawn — and the vote tally.
The withdrawal of the 210 Stirling Avenue lot split is significant. The applicant withdrew a historic-district lot split that the January 27 work session had previewed as potentially viable. Withdrawal can mean: the applicant lost confidence, the neighbor opposition organized further, or a new applicant strategy is forming. Either way, the historic-district-lot-split path remains procedurally hostile in Winter Park even when board members initially indicated openness to specific cases.
The El Car Wash Conditional Use is the cycle's first new car-wash CUP in the corpus. Automated car washes in C-3 zones are CUP-required because of traffic and noise impact concerns. The Aloma Avenue / Lander Road location is at the eastern edge of Winter Park's commercial activity. The board's response (conditions, vote) will establish a precedent for any subsequent automated-car-wash applications.
A 652-sq-ft Lake Berry addition rounds out the typical Winter Park lakefront docket. Smaller additions (under 1,000 sq ft) routinely pass at PZB if they meet FAR, setbacks, and tree/view criteria. This is the operational baseline against which more contested items are measured.

Raw Notes

Source platform note: The May 5, 2026 meeting occurs after the harvest date (May 9 of the harvest week). At harvest, only the agenda was published (not the minutes). This document captures the scheduled docket; a future re-harvest should retrieve the minutes when published and re-issue this as a document_type: minutes doc.
The withdrawal of SUB #26-01 (210 Stirling Avenue) was already noted on the agenda itself with the explicit annotation "REQUEST WITHDRAWN BY THE APPLICANT" — meaning the withdrawal pre-dated the meeting.