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Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — August 4, 2026 agenda

City of Winter Park Planning & Zoning Board — August 4, 2026 (Agenda)

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting Quorum: [not available — minutes not yet published] Duration: [not available] Location: City Hall Commission Chambers, 401 S. Park Avenue

Records note: This meeting was held on August 4, 2026 — the July 7, 2026 minutes record that the board approved them at the August 4 meeting, confirming it convened. As of August 8, 2026 the CivicClerk record carries Agenda (fileId 6411) and Agenda Packet (fileId 6412) only; no Minutes file has been published. On Winter Park's normal cadence, minutes are approved at the following regular meeting (September 1, 2026) and posted shortly after. Nothing below is an outcome. Every disposition is unknown.

Attendance

  • Present: [not available — minutes not yet published]
  • Absent: [not available — minutes not yet published]
  • Staff Present: [not available — minutes not yet published]

Agenda Items

Consent: Minutes of July 7, 2026

  • Type: Consent
  • Estimated time: 1 minute
  • Action: Approved (confirmed by the attestation line on the July 7 minutes: "Minutes approved by the Board on August 4, 2026")

Item 1: SPR #26-08 — 161 Palmer Avenue detached accessory structure, Lake Maitland

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-08
  • Location: 161 Palmer Avenue, on Lake Maitland
  • Applicant: Ryan Raczkowski, Factotum Worldwide LLC
  • Request: Construct a two-story, 1,000 sq ft detached accessory structure.
  • Current Zoning: R-1AAA
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Acreage: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published. Returning from a table at the applicant's request from the July 7, 2026 meeting.

Item 2: SPR #26-11 — 516 Henkel Circle new home, Lake Mizell

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-11
  • Location: 516 Henkel Circle, on Lake Mizell
  • Applicant: Christopher Salhab, Valdara Custom Homes
  • Request: Construct a new two-story, 5,772 sq ft single-family home.
  • Current Zoning: R-1AAA
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published

Item 3: SPR #26-10 — 2803 Wright Avenue new home, Lake Forest

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-10
  • Location: 2803 Wright Avenue, on Lake Forest
  • Applicant: Steven and Laura Carras
  • Request: Construct a new two-story, 4,259 sq ft single-family home.
  • Current Zoning: R-1A
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published

Item 4: SPR #26-14 — 1024 Anchorage Court new home, Lake Maitland

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-14
  • Location: 1024 Anchorage Court, on Lake Maitland
  • Applicant: Adam Metel, Nasrallah Design Studio
  • Request: Construct a new two-story, 9,897 sq ft single-family home — the largest single-family structure on this docket.
  • Current Zoning: R-1AAA
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published

Item 5: SPR #26-12 — 641 Virginia Drive new home, Lake Virginia

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-12
  • Location: 641 Virginia Drive, on Lake Virginia
  • Applicant: Christopher Salhab, Valdara Custom Homes
  • Request: Construct a new two-story, 6,989 sq ft single-family home.
  • Current Zoning: R-1AAA
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published

Item 6: SPR #26-13 — 643 Balmoral Road new home, Lake Berry

  • Type: Site Plan Review (lakefront)
  • Case Number: SPR #26-13
  • Location: 643 Balmoral Road, on Lake Berry
  • Applicant: David Konkol, Konkol Custom Homes & Remodeling, LLC
  • Request: Construct a new two-story, 6,775 sq ft single-family home.
  • Current Zoning: R-1AAA
  • Proposed Zoning: No change
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 10 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published

Item 7: ANNEX #26-01 — 915 North Wymore Road annexation

  • Type: Annexation with Future Land Use and Zoning designation
  • Case Number: ANNEX #26-01
  • Location: 915 North Wymore Road
  • Applicant: Summer Time Management, LLC
  • Request: Annex the property and establish Commercial Future Land Use and Commercial (C-3) Zoning on the annexed property.
  • Current Zoning: [unincorporated Orange County designation not stated on the agenda]
  • Proposed Zoning: C-3 Commercial
  • Acreage: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 5 minutes
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published
  • Context from the July 28, 2026 work session: described as a small annexation related to a citywide billboard reduction agreement — removing multiple existing billboards in exchange for allowing a single billboard along Interstate 4, with the property receiving equivalent commercial zoning upon annexation.

Item 8: CU #26-01 — 210 E. Morse Boulevard townhomes and synagogue

  • Type: Conditional Use
  • Case Number: CU #26-01
  • Location: 210 East Morse Boulevard (townhomes fronting Morse) and Knowles Avenue (synagogue)
  • Applicant: GAI Consultants, Inc., on behalf of El Cortez, LTD (property owner), in conjunction with Chabad of Greater Orlando
  • Request: Conditional use approval for five two-story townhome units fronting Morse Boulevard with partially below-grade basement garages, plus a three-story synagogue building fronting Knowles Avenue including an underground parking garage, a place of worship with rooftop deck for associated functions, and a daycare facility.
  • Current Zoning: R-4
  • Proposed Zoning: No change; conditional use plus setback and impervious-coverage variances discussed at the May 26, 2026 work session
  • Acreage: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Staff Recommendation: [not stated on the agenda]
  • Estimated time: 60 minutes — the marquee item
  • Action: Unknown — minutes not published. Returning from a table at the applicant's request from the July 7, 2026 meeting; previously previewed at the May 26 and July 28, 2026 work sessions. Board member Alex Stringfellow disclosed a planned recusal at the July 28 work session.

Remaining agenda structure

Public Comments (three minutes per speaker), Action Items, Non-Action Items, Staff Updates, Board Comments, Upcoming Agenda Items, Adjournment.

Public Hearings Summary

All eight items are advertised as public hearings requiring in-person participation. Speaker counts, sentiment, and concerns are unknown pending publication of the minutes. Staff reported at the July 28, 2026 work session that most of the six lakefront applications had received little or no neighborhood opposition.

Key Signals

  • Six lakefront applications on one docket is the heaviest lakefront volume in the Winter Park record — five of them new construction, not additions. SPR #26-10 through #26-14 propose new two-story homes of 4,259, 5,772, 6,775, 6,989, and 9,897 square feet across Lakes Forest, Mizell, Berry, Virginia, and Maitland. Through the first half of 2026 the board handled roughly one to four lakefront items per meeting, mostly additions. This is a step change in tear-down-and-rebuild activity on Winter Park's lakes, arriving in the same season the board voted to permit a lakefront estate lot split for the first time and staff proposed streamlining routine lakefront presentations. For anyone valuing lakefront property here: the redevelopment cycle is running, and the review process is being simplified to keep pace.
  • Two custom builders are carrying multiple lakefront applications simultaneously. Christopher Salhab of Valdara Custom Homes holds SPR #26-11 (Lake Mizell) and SPR #26-12 (Lake Virginia) on the same night; Adam Metel of Nasrallah Design Studio holds SPR #26-14 (Lake Maitland) here after carrying SPR #26-05 (Lake Berry) to a 6-0 approval on June 2. A small bench of designers and builders is executing most of the high-end lakefront pipeline — the residential-construction analogue to the concentrated land-use-attorney bench the corpus tracks on the commercial side.
  • The synagogue-and-townhomes conditional use has now been deferred twice without a hearing and arrives with a seat already gone. CU #26-01 was previewed at the May 26 work session, where the board pushed back on the synagogue's massing and ornamentation and asked for design iterations; tabled from July 7 at the applicant's request; previewed again July 28 with direction to compare the design against nearby religious and civic buildings. Alex Stringfellow disclosed a planned recusal for prior involvement. A 60-minute hearing on an R-4 parcel combining five townhomes, a three-story place of worship, a rooftop deck, an underground garage, and a daycare — decided by six or fewer members in a city with no formal architectural guidelines.
  • Winter Park is using annexation to consolidate its billboard inventory. ANNEX #26-01 brings 915 N. Wymore Road in at C-3 as part of a citywide agreement trading multiple existing billboards for one along I-4. The five-minute time estimate signals staff expects no contest. This is the voluntary-annexation-jurisdictional-tool pattern operating in a built-out affluent city — annexation as a regulatory acquisition rather than a growth capture, which is the inverse of its use on the US-27 corridor in Lake County.
  • The August 4 minutes will be the first test of whether the new work-session doctrine changed the outcomes. Under the opening statement adopted July 28, the July 28 previews of these eight items took no board positions and accepted no public comment. Compare April 28, where the board rehearsed El Car Wash's full mitigation package in a work session and then denied it 6-0 a week later. If the August 4 dispositions diverge from the July 28 discussion the way May 5 diverged from April 28, the corpus's read stands: Winter Park work sessions never predicted votes, and the new rule formalizes what was already true.

Raw Notes

  • Source platform note: Harvested from the August 4, 2026 PZB agenda (fileId 6411) — CivicClerk winterparkfl tenant, agendaId 1558, event 2728. Agenda Packet (fileId 6412) present. No Minutes file as of 2026-08-08.
  • The meeting is confirmed to have occurred: the July 7, 2026 minutes carry the attestation "Minutes approved by the Board on August 4, 2026."
  • Re-harvest after approximately September 1, 2026 to capture the minutes and attach dispositions to all eight items. This document should then be reissued as 2026-08-meeting-PZB.md with document_type: both.
  • The agenda states no staff recommendations, acreages, or FAR figures; those live in the 6412 agenda packet, which was not extracted in this pass.
  • Upcoming P&Z calendar as published on CivicClerk, with no documents attached as of 2026-08-08: August 25 work session (agendaId 1561), September 1 regular (1562), September 22 work session (1565), October 6 regular (1566), October 27 work session (1569), November 3 regular and November 24 work session (agendaId 0), December 1 regular (agendaId 0).

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