The upcoming Planning Commission and City Council meetings to consider the New Errol development proposal originally scheduled for Tuesday, February 20, and Tuesday, February 27, have been postponed, the city of Apopka announced.
The city will reveal new meeting dates as soon as they can be scheduled, city spokesman Robert Sargent said in an email.
Signature H, project developer from Celebration, said via email in a statement from the company’s attorney that the city erred in its notice of public hearing posters.
“It has come to our attention that the Notice of Public Hearing posters provided by the City of Apopka listed the wrong location for the upcoming public hearings on the New Errol project and, therefore, did not comply with the public notice requirements of the City Code,” attorney Jonathan Huels wrote. “Consequently, the public hearings before the Planning Commission on February 20, 2018, and the City Council on February 27, 2018, have been cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date. We are disappointed by the delay caused by this error and will work diligently with the City to ensure that the meetings are rescheduled as soon as possible and properly noticed in compliance with the City Code.”
According to city spokesman Robert Sargent, although he sent an email to The Apopka Chief confirming the postponement of the originally scheduled meetings, he did not confirm it was due to the reason mentioned in Signature H’s statement.
“That could be a reason, but there are several of them that I won’t get into,” he said, adding that if Signature H wants to release such a statement, they may do so.
Both public meetings were slated to take place at the Apopka Community Center/VFW Building, 519 S. Central Ave., starting at 5:30 p.m.
New Errol is a proposed 261-residential unit development with several amenities intended to revitalize the golf community located on Errol Parkway, north of U.S. Highway 441 in west Apopka.
Signature H, a developer from Celebration, said it has already spent more than $2.5 million on the redevelopment project.
Though New Errol has been in the works for two years now, its plan has gone through several levels of government review including the City Council, which approved the overall plan, the rezoning of the 79-acre Errol Estate, and transmittal to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on August 22, 2017.
This article appears on page 1A of the Friday, February 16, issue of The Apopka Chief.
