Clermont Updates Three Plans That Shape Future Growth

Clermont is updating three major planning documents that will help guide future decisions about land use, zoning, downtown development and neighborhood form.

The city is partnering with DPZ CoDesign, a planning, urban-design and architecture firm, on the work. Clermont’s Planning Division and Development Review page identifies the effort as an active city initiative and names three linked workstreams: the 2026 Comprehensive Plan, the Form Based Code and the Downtown Master Plan.

The planning update was listed on the city’s official planning page by July 7, 2026, or earlier, and remained active as of Aug. 7, according to the approved city information. The documents are being reviewed together rather than as an isolated update to only one part of the city’s development framework.

Three documents, one growth framework

The Comprehensive Plan provides the citywide planning framework. The Form Based Code addresses the way development is organized and designed, while the Downtown Master Plan focuses on the future direction of Clermont’s downtown area.

Together, the three documents are relevant to later decisions involving land use, zoning, development patterns and neighborhood form. They can provide the framework used when the city considers how growth should be organized and how new development should relate to existing areas.

That makes the work important to residents, property owners and developers, even though the current city information does not identify a specific project approval or a final change to local rules. The update itself is not an approval for a particular development.

What has—and has not—been decided

What is confirmed is that the City of Clermont has selected DPZ CoDesign as its planning, urban-design and architecture partner and is advancing updates to all three documents through the Planning Division and Development Review function.

The available information does not identify the documents as adopted or final. It also does not specify particular zoning changes, density increases or development approvals. Those outcomes should not be assumed from the existence of the planning project.

The city page also does not provide a final adoption date, the total cost of the project or a detailed schedule for public engagement. Those omissions leave important process questions unanswered for people who want to follow how the proposed planning framework develops.

What Clermont residents should watch next

The next known step is continued work on the 2026 update. Clermont’s official website serves as the municipal information hub and directs residents to city planning and development-review information, along with other municipal materials.

Future project documents, public meetings or council actions would be needed to show whether specific recommendations emerge and whether any changes are ultimately adopted. The available city information does not state when that process will conclude.

For now, the clearest local development is the coordinated review of three parts of Clermont’s growth framework: the citywide Comprehensive Plan, the Form Based Code and the Downtown Master Plan. The work could shape future land-use and downtown decisions, but the city has not yet identified a final set of changes.