The County Commission meets Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the County Auditorium at 500 San Sebastian View, on the same day the county votes. The agenda is one of the heaviest land use dockets of the fall. The board will also recognize Commissioner Sarah Arnold for her years of service, which the agenda lists among the morning’s opening items.

The item with the widest reach is number 13, enactment of the temporary planning moratorium on data centers. The ordinance before the board would, effective Nov. 15, stop the county from accepting, processing or approving any discretionary development application for a medium-scale or large-scale data center project. The freeze reaches from comprehensive plan amendments down to building permits that need a prior discretionary approval. Applications already determined complete and sufficient before Nov. 1 are exempt, as are existing data centers and their maintenance. The ordinance expires on the earliest of Oct. 31, 2027, the adoption of permanent regulations, or repeal, and it assigns staff a study running from water demand and backup generation to noise, setbacks and decommissioning. The board directed the ordinance on Sept. 1 and heard it on first presentation Oct. 6. Tuesday is the enactment vote.

Three agricultural enclave certifications are up, totaling about 214 acres by this paper’s addition of the three acreages the agenda prints. ENCERT 2026-12 Star IV, 70.83 acres west of State Road 16 between Grand Oaks and Windward Ranch, returns as a hearing continued from Oct. 20. The two new ones sit side by side south of Wildwood Drive and north of Watson Road, about a mile west of US 1 South: Osceola Lakes North at 103.29 acres and Osceola Lakes South at 40 acres. The staff reports on both carry the same preliminary conclusion, that the application does not appear to demonstrate that the parcel satisfies the statutory definition of an agricultural enclave in Section 163.3164(4), Florida Statutes, and each report records one letter of opposition received at the time it was written. Both backups carry a drafted motion to approve and a drafted motion to deny, so the board can go either way on the day.

What is not on the agenda matters as much as what is. ENCERT 2026-10 Adler Creek, 2026-11 Carter Road Associates and 2026-13 Pacetti Oaks, the three applications this paper reported on Oct. 21, appear nowhere on Tuesday’s docket. The staff letters in the Oct. 20 backup respond to applications received Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, which by this paper’s count off a calendar puts their ninetieth days at Nov. 29 and Nov. 30. Section 163.3162(4)(c) of the Florida Statutes provides that an application not approved or denied within 90 days of receipt must be certified as an agricultural enclave by operation of law. Nov. 17 is the only regular meeting left inside that window.

The Inman Road warehouse plan arrives carrying an unusual posture. MAJMOD 2025-12 would allow up to 250,000 square feet of light industrial and flex warehousing at 3960 Inman Road. The agenda records what happened at the Planning and Zoning Agency on Oct. 15: a motion to recommend approval, conditioned on prohibiting all on-site distribution centers, failed 3-4, with Perkins, Matovina and Green in support and Hilsenbeck, Spiegel, Labanowski and Olson opposed. No further motion was made, so the decision is deemed a recommendation for denial, and the agenda notes staff received no application update prohibiting the distribution centers.

Bartram Park and Bartram Grove, both in District 5 on Race Track Road, would together reshape that corridor’s entitlements. The Bartram Park DRI modification adds 42.3 acres, raises the commercial ceiling to 500,000 square feet, and converts 20,000 square feet of commercial entitlement into 169 residential units, taking the development from 646 to 815 homes, with the agenda carrying the applicant’s position that no additional external vehicular trips are added. The two Bartram Grove items at 5404 Race Track Road would replace a 2017 policy allowing 175,000 square feet of recreational and 125,000 square feet of commercial use, capped at 700 new evening peak hour trips. The replacement is 180 dwelling units and 50,000 square feet of commercial and office, capped at 400 trips. The PZA recommended all three 7-0.

Smaller but concrete: Fruit Cove Baptist Church’s 9.5 acres in District 2 come up for a plan amendment and rezoning to commercial, on an expedited hearing the applicant requested after waiving an updated staff report. The Shoppes at Mill Creek Forest would convert 120,000 square feet of never-built office entitlement into 41,500 square feet of retail, recommended 6-0. And 9.16 acres on County Road 210 West would go from Open Rural to Commercial General, also 6-0.

The board will also fill the Planning and Zoning Agency seat left by the expiration of Greg Matovina’s term. Nineteen applications are attached, listed by name and district, along with nine applications for five seats on the Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals.

On consent, the money lines are these:

Consent item Amount What it buys
8 $1,220,000.00 Four Mile Road and SR 16 intersection, Halifax Paving
9 $7,301,402 Northwest Water Reclamation Facility expansion design, CDM Smith
12 $976,387.20 Stratton Road transfer station tipping floor repair
2 $131,024.94 Turn lane at Holmes Boulevard and Norwood Drive
3 $712,014 Six replacement transit vehicles, federal grant
17 $35,002 Local match, Ponte Vedra Beach Coastal Storm Risk Management design agreement with the Department of the Army

Consent item 22 approves the minutes of the Oct. 20 meeting, whose draft rode in as this item’s backup and has already been reported in these pages. Public comment comes early in the meeting, after the proclamations, and the auditorium doors are at 500 San Sebastian View. The meeting starts at 9.