6 items pending across the field.
Forward-looking artifacts the observatory is tracking — scheduled votes, regulatory sunsets, condition-triggered events. Each item carries its trigger, scope, significance score, and a voxel capturing why it matters. After the trigger date passes, items resolve with an outcome assessment that becomes part of the published record.
Track record · 0 of 2 directional reads aligned (0%) · last resolved May 4, 2026
What the field is watching
Crooked Can Brewing opens at Hills Town Center, Minneola
42,000 sq ft brewery + food hall opening — the cardinal mixed-use validation
Crooked Can Brewing's 42,000 sq ft Minneola brewery, food hall, and farmer's market opens in April 2026 — the validation point for Minneola's $300 million Hills Town Center mixed-use vision. The…
minneola-floridaus-27-south-lakequiet-revolution-highway-27Score 88Hartwood Marsh Road widening construction begins
Funded since 2007; the binding capacity constraint for Wellness Way
The Hartwood Marsh Road widening is the regional infrastructure constraint that has bound the Wellness Way build-out since 2019 entitlement. Funded since 2007 by Lake County, the project has been…
clermont-floridaus-27-south-lakequiet-revolution-highway-27Score 86SB 180 self-expiration — all four cities enter adoption windows
The Florida preemption sunset that unlocks the regulatory architecture
Florida SB 180 — the 2025 statute prohibiting local governments from making land-development codes more restrictive or burdensome on development, retroactive to August 2024 — sunsets in June 2026.…
us-27-south-lakegrandfather-windowScore 95Clermont C-2 food-truck permitted-use text amendment
City Council-directed code change; the CUP cadence that broke the code
Three Clermont food-truck Conditional Use Permits in three consecutive months on Highway 50 — Crab Cakes (March), Wahlburgers at Home Depot (April), Mayamero (May) — forced a feedback loop visible…
clermont-floridaScore 70Groveland CDC V5 form-based code adoption
The regulatory architecture awaiting SB 180's June 2026 lift
Groveland's Community Development Code Version 5 — the city's form-based code rewrite encoding the eco-agrarian vision and Village Core / Center / Edge tri-zone framework — has been in drafting…
groveland-floridagrandfather-windowScore 82Groveland names a new City Attorney
Successor to Anita Geraci-Carver mid-EAR-amendment cycle
On April 2, 2026, Groveland City Attorney Anita Geraci-Carver delivered her parting line at her last Planning & Zoning Board meeting — "All bills failed. SB 180 expires June 2026." Her departure…
groveland-floridaScore 78