08.25.2026 Clermont City Council Meeting Agenda Packet

City Council Meeting · 2026-08-25 · agenda_packet

[821 W. Minneola Avenue, Clermont, FL (West End Plaza); Carroll Street (surplus property sale); East Avenue (bike/pedestrian pathway); 270 Division Street (public comment); 931 W Montrose Street (public comment); 4062 Graystone Drive (public comment); 838 W. Montrose (public comment); 2693 Jumping Jack Way (public comment); case Resolution No. 2026-025R (West End Plaza CUP); Resolution No. 2026-026R (Elite Vet. Specialists CUP); Ordinance No. 2026-026 (Amend LDC Noticing); Ordinance No. 2026-027 (CDD); Ordinance No. 2026-029 (Amend LDC); Ordinance No. 2026-030 (Smoke/Vape Moratorium); Ordinance No. 2026-031 (Marijuana Dispensary Moratorium); Ordinance No. 2026-032 (Data Centers Moratorium); Resolution No. 2026-030R (Budget Amendment); Resolution No. 2026-037R (Fire); Contract 2025-009A (Settlement Agreement)] This document is a City of Clermont City Council meeting agenda and minutes packet. It contains multiple distinct items, including a proclamation, budget presentation, consent agenda items, and several land use and ordinance items. The primary development project is a Conditional Use Permit for a mixed-use development at 821 W. Minneola Avenue (West End Plaza). Other items include a CUP for a veterinary clinic, a citizen request regarding the downtown R-3 district, and several moratorium ordinances. The document also includes minutes from a prior meeting with details on a CDD establishment and a CUP approval. This document is a compilation of City of Clermont, Florida, council meeting minutes and agenda items, not a single development project. It contains multiple distinct items, including approvals of ordinances and resolutions, a budget amendment, and a hazard mitigation plan adoption. No specific development project with a street address, parcel, or zoning change is described. The document includes: 1) A motion to approve Resolution 2026-2025R (Item No. 10) with amendments, including conditions for a project with a courtyard, design elements, and community benefits, with a motion passed 5-0. 2) Introduction of Ordinance No. 2026-029 (Item No. 11) to amend the Land Development Code for administrative adjustments, passed 5-0. 3) Introduction of Ordinance No. 2026-030 (Item No. 12) imposing a 180-day moratorium on new vape shops, passed 5-0. 4) Introduction of Ordinance No. 2026-031 (Item No. 13) establishing a temporary moratorium on medical marijuana activities, passed 5-0. 5) Introduction of Ordinance No. 2026-032 (Item No. 14) imposing a temporary moratorium on data centers and cryptocurrency mining, passed 5-0. 6) A report on a temporary site lease for a carriage house at Santi Apartments, with a six-month rent waiver and a $3,600 per month lease thereafter. 7) A closed litigation session for the case Falzon v. City of Clermont. 8) An agenda item for approval to declare end-of-life inventory as surplus from Finance, Human Resources, and Fire Departments, with an anticipated value of $300. 9) Resolution No. 2026-030R for a budget amendment for FY 2025/2026, including an emergency HVAC replacement for City Hall, an increase in Building Services professional services, Community Redevelopment Agency Master Plan funding, and a City Hall first-floor HVAC replacement, with a net impact on fund balances. 10) Resolution No. 2026-037R to adopt the 2026 Lake County Local Mitigation and Resilience Strategy Plan, with no impact on the current operating budget. Public comment sentiment is not stated for most items, but for the project in Item No. 10, council members expressed support, noting its design, walkability, communal space, and potential to address downtown parking, with concerns about parking and traffic. The document does not state a specific address, acreage, or zoning change for any project. The document is the Lake County Local Mitigation Strategy 2025, a planning document that does not describe a specific development project, site, or action. It contains no address, parcel, acreage, applicant, case number, or decision for a construction project. It describes county-wide hazard mitigation goals, objectives, and processes, including the National Flood Insurance Program, Community Rating System, and dam inventories. Public comment sentiment is not stated in the document. [case 23-P-83TF] The document is a City of Clermont, Florida agenda item for a piggyback term contract for temporary staffing services, and includes the underlying Volusia County RFP 23-P-83TF. The City of Clermont is requesting approval to piggyback Volusia County Term Contract No. 23-P-83TF with seven awarded vendors for temporary staffing services. The contract term commences August 26, 2026, with an initial one-year agreement and two optional one-year renewals. Annual expenditures under some contracts are anticipated to exceed $50,000. The Volusia County RFP covers employee leasing and temporary services for over 100 facilities and over 40 divisions, with historical expenditures of approximately $4,000,000 annually. The RFP timeline includes release on May 1, 2023, mandatory pre-proposal meetings on May 17 and May 18, 2023, question deadline July 11, 2023, and proposal deadline July 25, 2023. The RFP states an initial three-year term with two optional one-year renewals. No specific street address, parcel, acreage, or zoning change is stated for a construction project. No public comment or stakeholder sentiment is stated. [case 23-P-83TF] This document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) and award tabulation for Volusia County, Florida, for employee leasing and temporary services. It is not a land development or construction project. The document details the solicitation requirements, lists 16 respondents, and identifies the recommended awardees. The recommendation of award is for AUE Staffing, Inc., FastTrack Staffing, Inc., Infojini, Inc., Innovative Systems Group of Florida, Inc. (ISGF), Lyneer Staffing Solutions, LLC, Sunshine Enterprise USA, LLC, and Tampa Service Company, Inc. dba Pacesetter Personnel Services. The document includes detailed hourly rate tables for various temporary positions for the initial award term through 09/29/2024 and subsequent award terms through 09/29/2028. The solicitation closing date was July 25, 2023, at 3:00 PM. The tabulation was posted on August 25, 2023, and the recommendation of award was dated November 27, 2023. The evaluation committee meeting was held on November 21, 2023. The County Council date is not stated. The document also notes that Changing Technologies, Inc. and Tryfacta, Inc. were deemed non-responsive for not attending a mandatory pre-proposal conference, and that Abacus Corporation, Ad-Vance Personnel Services, Inc., COGENT Infotech Corporation, Enterprise Solutions, Inc., RADgov, Inc., Southern Georgia Staffing Inc., and Staffing Connection - CLI, LLC were deemed non-responsive for not meeting insurance requirements. The document does not describe any physical project, site, or zoning change. [235 Hatteras Avenue, Suite 100 (for Resolution No. 2026-026R); 685 West Montrose Street (public hearing location); not stated for other items; case Ordinance No. 2026-029; Ordinance No. 2026-030; Ordinance No. 2026-031; Ordinance No. 2026-032; Resolution No. 2026-026R] The document is a multi-item agenda for the City of Clermont City Council meeting on August 25, 2026. It includes several distinct items: Ordinance No. 2026-029 (Administrative Adjustments), Ordinance No. 2026-030 (Smoke/Vape Shops Moratorium), Ordinance No. 2026-031 (Marijuana Dispensary Moratorium), Ordinance No. 2026-032 (Data Centers Moratorium), a Citizen Request regarding the R-3 residential district, and Resolution No. 2026-026R (Elite Vet Specialists CUP). For Ordinance 2026-029, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval (5-0) and staff recommends approval. For Resolution 2026-026R, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval (5-0) and staff recommends approval. The other items are agenda items with staff recommendations for approval. No public comment sentiment is stated in the document. [235 Hatteras Avenue, Suite 100; case Resolution No. 2026-026R (CUP 2026-026R); Ordinance No. 2026-025] The document is a multi-item City of Clermont agenda packet. It includes a Conditional Use Permit for a veterinary clinic at 235 Hatteras Avenue, Suite 100, on a 0.78 +/- acre parcel (AK 3734173), changing the use from a Medical Office to a Specialty Veterinary Clinic (ophthalmology) within the M-1 Industrial zoning district. The applicant is Fourscore Operating Management LLC, DBA Elite Veterinary Specialists; the owner is Paul W Jakubowski & Olga N Jakubowski. The City Council granted the permit on August 25, 2026, via Resolution No. 2026-026R. The document also includes an ordinance to amend the Land Development Code to create a new chapter on Outdoor Lighting and Dark Sky Standards (Ordinance No. 2026-025), which was introduced on August 25, 2026, and adopted on September 8, 2026. Additionally, there are two Council Member requests: one to discuss a bike and pedestrian pathway along East Avenue and a crosswalk between Aurelia M. Cole Academy and Cypress Ridge Elementary School, and another to discuss placing public notices in the Clermont Sun. The document does not state any public comment or stakeholder sentiment.