Interoffice Memorandum
DATE: December 22, 2025
TO: Mayor Jerry L. Demings and County Commissioners
THROUGH: N/A
FROM: Tanya Wilson, AICP, Director, Planning, Environmental, and Development Services
CONTACT: Nicolas Thalmueller, AICP, DRC Chairman
PHONE: 407-836-5523
DIVISION: Development Review Committee
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approval and execution of Non-Substantial Deviation Second Amendment to Thirteenth Amended and Restated Development Order for Southchase Development of Regional Impact (DO-25-08-189). District 4. (Development Review Committee)
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PROJECT: Development Order (Related to Change Determination Request CDR-25-06-146)
PURPOSE: The Southchase Development of Regional Impact (DRI) Development Order (DO) was originally approved by the Board in 1987. The most recent amendment to the DO, the First Amendment to Thirteenth Amended DO, was approved on January 9, 2024. Generally located south of W. Wetherbee Road, east of Florida’s Turnpike, west of S. Orange Avenue, and north of State Road 417, the DRI and associated Planned Development (PD) are currently approved for a mix of uses such as low and high density residential, commercial, office, and industrial. Commercial parcels, such as Parcel 44, currently allow uses which are permitted in the C-1 zoning district, as well as a list of several special exception uses which have been specifically listed and approved in the PD Land Use Plan and in the DO for the Southchase DRI.
Through this request, the applicant is seeking to amend the Thirteenth Amended DO for Southchase DRI to allow a helipad / vertiport use on Parcel 44 consistent with the Southchase PD amendment case (CDR-25-06-146).
Both the substantial change determination request to the Southchase PD (CDR-25-06-146) and the DRI amendment (DO-25-08-189) received a recommendation of approval from the Development Review Committee on November 5, 2025.
BUDGET: N/A