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DRC hears stormwater, buffer and parking questions on Hunt Club medical office plan
Summary
A proposed 5,285-square-foot medical office at 2715 East Semoran raised questions about buffer widths per the PD master plan, parking/lighting sheet requirements, and stormwater discharge into the Border Lake basin; applicant and DRC members debated pond capacity and asked a newly assigned transportation planner to review calculations.
The Development Review Committee discussed a construction site plan for a proposed medical office at 2715 East Semoran (Hunt Club Medical Office) during its Jan. 15 meeting.
June Son introduced the application, saying the site is about 0.82 acre in the Apopka Gateway Center planned development (Ordinance 1948). The applicant described the proposed building as roughly 5,285 square feet with parking and open space that the applicant said were sufficient for the proposed use.
Selby Weeks, the applicant’s engineering representative, raised multiple comments from staff review and asked for clarifications on how the PD master plan’s buffer dimensions were being interpreted. Weeks said the master plan drawing clearly showed a 10-foot buffer on Cortez and Cimarron, while a review comment listed 15 feet; Weeks asked staff to confirm the correct dimension and noted the item was discussed at pre-application.
Weeks also said the submittal included stormwater calculations and a lighting plan with photometrics; staff requested an explicit parking-plan sheet per the land-development code, which Weeks agreed to provide. Transportation planning comments were assigned to Diana Almodovar, who the committee noted would start with the city staff later in the week.
Committee members raised concerns about stormwater discharge to the Border Lake basin. One DRC member said it would be hard to approve additional discharge to Border Lake until broader basin issues were addressed. The applicant’s engineer said the pond serving the site was designed for the 25-year, 96-hour event and accounted for 100-year stages; the engineer reported field checks after recent storms indicated the pond did not overtop and that the project would reduce some existing off-site discharge to the right-of-way by redirecting runoff into the designed pond.
No formal DRC action was recorded; staff asked the applicant to provide clarifications in the resubmittal and to coordinate with the newly assigned transportation planner on proportionate-share and right-of-way questions.
