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Florida Senate Bill 180 sunsets on its own terms in June 2026 — earlier than its originally-scheduled October 2027 expiration — after the Senate-side repeal failed earlier this cycle. The four South Lake cities enter the post-freeze adoption window simultaneously. The cities most ready to ship code are the ones that pre-positioned: Clermont, with DPZ CoDesign-led downtown form-based code in deliverable form and a comp-plan apparatus carrying 1,500+ community survey responses, ships first. Groveland, with Community Development Code Version 5 in draft and the institutional-knowledge anchor departing mid-EAR cycle, ships at structural risk. Minneola has strong grandfathered defensive ordinances but no comparable downtown framework. Leesburg has political will substituting for code architecture and nothing drafted to ship. The race begins June 2026.

On June 4, 2026, City of Maitland's Planning and Zoning Commission agenda lists multiple items for hearing. Item 1: AZPD(2026)-0004 — pud (pd amendment) at 2000 Summit Park Drive ("The Summit" Planned Development; Parcels 1A and 1E; Parcel ID 27-21-29-8419-00-011), Maitland, FL 32751. 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.

On June 3, 2026, the Lake County Planning and Zoning Board takes up a nine-tab docket whose cardinal item is structural: Tab 2, an ordinance dissolving the County's appointed Board of Adjustment effective July 1, 2026, and transferring every variance, waiver, and appeal — including §553.73(5) flood-construction variances — to the elected Board of County Commissioners. The Board of Adjustment was created November 26, 1996; the ordinance repeals LDR §§13.02.00 and 13.03.00 and replaces every "Board of Adjustment" reference with "Board of County Commissioners." County Attorney Melanie Marsh drafted it; the stated rationale is applicant convenience. The same docket sharpens the Rural Conservation open-space mandate (35%–90%, up to 90% in Green Swamp Core), runs density up on Clermont-served corridor land (Hartle Hills, 212 apartments) and down inside the Green Swamp (Tiger Paw, 0.39 DU/acre, 67.1% open space). The PZB recommends; the BCC decides July 14. This is governance consolidation: the quasi-judicial buffer is absorbed, not overruled.

Clermont's Planning and Zoning Commission, sitting June 2, 2026 as the Local Planning Agency, takes up Ordinance 2026-014 — a Land Development Code text amendment adding a new § 125-532 that moves Mobile Food Dispensing Vehicles out of the Conditional Use Permit process and into administrative site review across all non-residential districts. The ordinance resolves the food-truck CUP cadence the corpus has tracked since January: three CUPs in a five-month window — Crab Cakes, Wahlburgers, and Mayamero — produced the record that justified the code. Staff drafted the language explicitly from the Cities of Maitland and Winter Springs, importing Orange/Seminole code into the US-27 corridor. Council adoption is set for June 23, 2026. The same agenda carries Ordinances 2026-021 and 2026-022, the comprehensive-plan and rezoning follow-through for the built-out Hammock Pointe / Hammock Reserve subdivisions at the Hammock Ridge Road / Lake Louisa Road intersection — the city's residential frontier pressing toward the Green Swamp recharge line.