Winter Springs planners will hold a special meeting this week for a single public hearing: a proposed change to how outdoor storage and warehousing sites in the city's general commercial district may surface their drive aisles.
The Planning and Zoning Board, sitting as the Local Planning Agency, meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the commission chambers at City Hall, 1126 East State Road 434. Ordinance 2026-09 is the only item on the hearing agenda. The board makes a recommendation; the City Commission has the final vote.
What would change
Under section 20-256 of the city code, parking surfaces at outdoor storage and warehousing sites in the C-2 General Commercial district must meet the city's paving and drainage codes. Storage areas may use what the code calls "R.A.P." parking improvements, but the main drive aisles have to be asphalt or concrete.
The draft ordinance adds an exception. On properties that include or sit next to a jurisdictional wetland, a natural waterbody or a natural watercourse, the City Commission could allow drive aisles surfaced with #57 stone stabilized by concrete or plastic turfblocks, or with proprietary cellular or modular porous paving systems installed to the manufacturer's specifications.
The ordinance says the goal is to reduce impervious surface impacts.
C-2 zoning allows outdoor facilities for parking and storing vehicles, equipment, goods and materials only on land beside a state collector road that also lies within and next to both an electric transmission line right-of-way and a railroad right-of-way, according to the ordinance's background section.
