PDE-26-0024

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1. 1Dec 11, 2025
   Planning CommissionP7Public hearingNo disposition in the minutes

   An Ordinance Amending The Pasco County Comprehensive Plan Amendment (Regular) – CPA25(02) North Pasco Resort – Providing for A a Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment To to Subarea Policy FLU 7.1.63 – 7.1.63- North Pasco Resort; And Providing For Additional Text Amendments As Necessary For Internal Consistency; Providing For A Replealer, Severability, And Effective Date. Resort

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2. 2Jan 6, 2026
   Board of County CommissionersP66Public hearingApproved

   An Ordinance Amending The Pasco County Comprehensive Plan Amendment (Consent) – CPA25(02) North Pasco Resort – Providing for A Transmittal of a Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment To to Subarea Policy FLU 7.1.63 – 7.1.63- North Pasco Resort; And Providing For Additional Text Amendments As Necessary For Internal Consistency; Providing For A Replealer, Severability, And Effective Date. Resort

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   MarianoChair

   3:35:47Yes. That's a motion a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. So we've got item P sixty six. Mm-hmm.

   Amy Heiler

   3:35:57All right. Um so P sixty-six is the comprehensive plan amendment for the North Pasco R V um with a companion on P seventy-one. Not sure if you want to do it right now or later, um, but P seventy one is looking to continue the item to match the transmittal or the adoption date of the comprehensive plan amendment. However, the applicant has requested that we do uh include the MPD presentation with the Comp Plan presentation as well at this time.

   MarianoChair

   3:36:26Okay, so we're gonna be continuing this item. But to the people that are here, if they want to speak to us now, they can or they can wait till we have the full public hearing.

   Amy Heiler

   3:36:36And the continuance is just for the rezoning, not the complan.

   MarianoChair

   3:36:39Okay. So who the two people?

   Starkey

   3:36:43Yes.

   3:36:45Uh Nancy Hazelwood.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   3:36:50Do you wanna wait or or speak or she goes up? She's gotta if she wants to speak to the Complan amendment, she's gotta do it now.

   MarianoChair

   3:36:57Okay.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   3:37:06So the so the applicant has requested the comprehensive plan amendment and the zoning be taken up in the same hearing. However the however the zoning is not going to be acted on today. So but The Comp Plan Amendment is. So you have three minutes to talk about the Comp Plan Amendment. If you wish to talk about the zoning amendment, You wave your time at the next hearing. So I would advise

   3:37:36you just to talk about the comprehensive plan amendment. If Next time. But you but you can talk about the comprehensive plan amendment. It the board will be taking action on it today.

   MarianoChair

   3:38:00Your your comprehensive plan is going

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   3:38:02be voted on today. The only time to speak on the comprehensive plan is right now.

   Unidentified speakerVoice B

   3:38:06But I'm not sure.

   MarianoChair

   3:38:07The uh the rezoning

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   3:38:10out yeah. If you signed up for it because you didn't didn't like like it or have comments on I would I would throw them all into the comprehensive plan amendment like most people usually do.

   MarianoChair

   3:38:24But Okay, so Niss's gonna come forward.

   3:38:29All right. So

   3:38:33Uh so we're gonna take public comment. Clear the podium.

   Joel

   3:38:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   Nancy Hazelwood

   3:38:39Nancy Hazelway, [address removed]. Um My biggest problem with this whole thing is the height of the hotel. and the entertainment area that I have seen nothing about and don't know anything about. Think of it this way. This is a destination site. Your target people are snowbirds and they're coming in in November and they're staying

   3:39:10till springtime and they've got to entertain 'em. You're in the Northeast Raw area plan. And it specifically says that you aren't supposed to do anything to jeopardize the northeaster areas. Community, the environment, everything. And you've got this entertainment site that they aren't telling us about and we don't know anything about and I wanna know something about it before it's voted in.

   3:39:41You know, it might be perfectly okay if you put it in a building or if you don't have amplification going on. But that's might be fun. Okay. Thank you.

   MarianoChair

   3:39:56And the next person for P66?

   Starkey

   3:39:58Wow, crazy. Jay Hoster.

   Unidentified speakerVoice C

   3:40:07This is quite annoying.

   Starkey

   3:40:11Well like this one.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   3:40:19Yeah. James Hoster, my residence is [address removed], but I own property immediately uh uh to the north of the project. My concern is this uh you re you re reduced some of the uh uh the uh

   3:40:44Excuse me. Um you re you reduce uh uh some of the uh uh the spaces for the for the uh uh uh for both the yurts and for the uh the RV home uh the R V sites uh to to balance out the uh the trip generation for the for the hotel. But there's a significant difference there. Let's face it, basically the RV side the RV project was designed to be kind of temporary

   3:41:14housing. People come and they stay for a period of time. Snowbirds came for the season and so forth. They don't leave during the peak hour. Or they don't arrive during the peak hours. They particularly avoid the peak hours. And also the amenities on the site are attractive to them. y the hotel is neither of those things. They they arrive in the peak out in the PM peak hour and they and they leave in the AM peak hour. And they and they tr uh where

   3:41:45you've already got major traffic problems, this exacerbates them.

   3:41:57And that really hardly qualifies. All the major destinations for that are are around Disney and and uh the Orlando area and even and even uh Legoland has uh hotels around it. They are they all have hotels in their immediate area. So this is just a pass-through hotels, uh creating the problems in a in a different location. And uh these are this is a much more severe

   3:42:27pr uh impact on the community than it was when it was when you were just dealing with uh with RV uh RVs and and and your

   3:42:38I think you need to be made aware of that. This is not an improvement. This is a deterioration in the project.

   MarianoChair

   3:42:47Yeah.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   3:42:47Do you have any questions?

   MarianoChair

   3:42:49We don't ask questions. Thank you. All right, anyone want to come back up? The Occupy can go after that.

   3:43:02Oh is there is there anyone else in the audience that would like to speak to this item? And there's no one online? So we're gonna close public comment and uh Amy if you want to address what you just heard and then we'll have the applicant speak.

   Amy Heiler

   3:43:14Yeah, um so just two highlights. Uh the height is a hundred and is fifty-five feet. Uh the reason why it's fifty-five feet is because uh North Pasco and the North Pasco um I'm sorry, excuse me, Northeast rural area uh does not have a height limit. a restriction for non-residential uses. So it does default to the code in that scenario. But it is capped at 55 feet and the RV resorts, those are going to be 180 day. So they

   3:43:45are going to be seasonal, like you had mentioned.

   MarianoChair

   3:43:47Okay, and what about the the entertainment part?

   Amy Heiler

   3:43:50The entertainment part. Entertainment?

   MarianoChair

   3:43:52We like the elephant tree. Thank you. for some.

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:43:57Farber Well Hight, 6327 Grand Boulevard. You've had to hear hear me coughing this whole day, so I might as well get up here and talk to you all for the applicant. Um The couple questions. With regard to the um entertainment area, I I never understand where that's coming from. This is resorts. You can see from the binding concept plan that it's an integrated resort. This isn't just a hotel by the interstate. Y we did a binding concept plan and and had a lot of thoughtfulness in how we did that and it's You

   3:44:27can see the amenities integrated. So the conversation about this being some separate hotel and an RV um resort is not correct. Regarding and the entertainment area, I don't know what that refers to, but I did include a condition, we're not here in the MP MPUD today. But I'm glad it's before you in your packet so you can have all the information 'cause I think it's important for the board to have all the information. So I pushed for you to have all the information for you today and it's fine that you don't hear or act on the MPUD, that's fine with

   3:44:58me. But I did include a condition in the M PUD that said 'Cause I kept getting this question. Any outdoor entertainment area should be limited to resort guests and restaurant bar patrons only. There shall be no stage lighting that creates light spill or glare off-site and the project shall comply with your noise ordinance. So I think it covers who, how, and noise. The The uh hotel is fifty-five feet, the height limit is fifty-five feet. Not only did we put a limit on it, we

   3:45:28imposed that limit on it, we also agreed to a setback from the Lake Iola right away of two hundred and seventy-four feet. And we have a substantial buffer, the same buffer that we had before. Um Lake Iola quarter buffer was substantial that we have in there as well. So a lot of thoughtfulness went into restricting our height as well as how far we were set back from Lake Iola and the quarter buffer that goes in betwe along Lake Iola.

   MarianoChair

   3:45:59Now Barbara, I thought we did mention when we heard this the first time that we you did talk about entertainment be going on there. I thought it would be pretty close to where E would be. Is that still planned that way or? It's the primary

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   3:46:13resort lodge is what you what he

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:46:15equates to. Exactly. In that area where there we have our pools, we have outdoor bars, we have those types of things, we anticipate that there will be entertainment. There will be uh music that you can go and listen to. Um it is well set into this site, your noise ordinance applies. I mean I tried to write a very specific condition as to who, how, you know, that area would operate. I can tell you that I was ever asked this question for Saddlebrook and

   3:46:45any other resort I've ever worked on, um, because it just is something you have normally at the resort, you have I know I go to resorts and I listen to outdoor music, so I don't think it's a thing. I think it's just something that would accompany the resort.

   Oakley

   3:46:59I just wanna add something. Uh the hotel the hotel itself is different than your normal hotel that you will see in other places. This is an extended living hotel. This is a hotel that someone would come in and they may stay six months and then they go back home. That's the way this hotel's built and it's got kitchenettes in it for people to stay longer. It also has I believe uh doesn't have a lazy river.

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:25Yeah the the

   Oakley

   3:47:27amendment.

   3:47:31Yeah

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:32it does it does have quite a bit.

   Oakley

   3:47:33But it's not your regular hotel that's gonna actually you're gonna come in and stay the night and leave the next morning. It's extended live living hotel so it's expands.

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:45We this has been this is being added to the resort to complement the resort. So I think

   MarianoChair

   3:47:49you have three votes.

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:50What was that?

   MarianoChair

   3:47:51I think you have three votes. I just

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:52want

   YeagerSecond Vice Chair

   3:47:52to say I look at this as a dish.

   Barbara Wilhite

   3:47:53I

   3:47:53know

   3:47:54but I just think it's important that this could explain. And I you know we added the re the hotel so there'd be another place for favor say hi. Good

   YeagerSecond Vice Chair

   3:48:03job, Barbara.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   3:48:05Just for clarification for the record, that was for authorized transmittal of the proposed comprehensive plan amendment to the Department of Commerce and other reviewing agents. Thank you.

   MarianoChair

   3:48:15Okay, item P sixty eight.

   Starkey

   3:48:18P sixty we've already given proof on this.

   MarianoChair

   3:48:22were sixty nine.

   Unidentified speakerVoice E

   3:48:25We are at sixty-six.

   Amy Heiler

   3:48:26Do we want to make an

   MarianoChair

   3:48:27advantage? Actually, no, it's sixty nine. It

   3:48:29is

   3:48:29sixty nine, sorry, sixty eight was done. Okay, sixty-eight. This is the one commissioner started equal.

3. 3Mar 10, 2026
   Board of County CommissionersP50Public hearingContinued

   Approved minutes

   Approved to continue to the April 7, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Dade City with Commissioner Weightman absent from the vote.

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   MarianoChair

   7:00Okay. May have a motion to continue P forty go. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye aye. Any opposed? Okay. Item P 50. We have proof.

   Starkey

   7:10We have proof of publication of this matter, Tampa Bay Times, November 26, 2025, supplemented by an affidavit of certified mailings and site posts.

   Amy Heiler

   7:21Item P50 is an ordinance amending the Pasco County Comprehensive Plan, providing for a comprehensive plan text amendment to sub-area policy flu 7.1.63, North Pasco Resort. This comes with you with a recommendation to continue uh with a continuance request, excuse me, to April 7th, 2026 at uh 1.30 in Dade City.

   MarianoChair

   7:43May have a motion to continue P fifty.

   Amy Heiler

   7:45Move to continue.

   MarianoChair

   7:46Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

4. 4Apr 7, 2026
   GeneralP46Public hearingAdopted

   An Ordinance Amending The … Subarea Policy FLU 7.1.63 – - North Pasco Resort; And … Consistency; Providing For A Replealer, Repealer, Severability, And Effective Date.

   Approved minutes

   Approved to adopt by roll call vote with Commissioner Weightman absent from the vote.

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