PDE-26-7872

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4 appearances between Feb 5, 2026 and Apr 7, 2026, at 3 boards — continued 1 time.

OutcomeApproved by the General on Apr 7, 2026

Approved Staff’s recommendation to include language in the MPUD conditions that require architectural materials in color palate with Commissioner Weightman absent from the vote.

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Zoning Amendment (Continuance) - Kenton Road Commercial MPUD – Kenton Road Commercial, LLC – Rezoning Request from A-C Agricultural to MPUD Master Planned Unit Development District to Allow for the Development of 110,000 Square Feet of Non-Residential Entitlements and 120 Hotel Room and Associated Infrastructure - Northeast Pasco County - Located at the Northwest Corner of the Intersection of Kenton Road and Elam Road in the Community Hub Special Planning Area of Connected City - on Approximately 9.43 Acres.

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1Feb 5, 2026
Planning CommissionPC5Public hearingNo disposition in the minutes
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2Mar 5, 2026
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Zoning Amendment ~~(Continuance)~~ (Consent) - Kenton Road Commercial … Area of Connected City - on Approximately 9.43 Acres.
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Barbara
Good there. Ready to move on. Beginning on the regular agenda is item PC four, this is PDE twenty six seventy-eight seventy two, a zoning amendment in the name of Kenton Road Commercial M P D to be presented by staff.
Gavin Covey
Good afternoon. Gavin Covey Playing Development and Economic Growth. This is PDE 267872, the Kenton Road Commercial MPUD.
So the proposal is a rezoning request from AC Agricultural to an MPD Master Plan Unit Development District. And this is to develop one hundred and ten thousand square feet of non-residential entitlements and one hundred and twenty hotel rooms at the northwest corner of the intersection of Kenton Road and Elam Road.
Here's a location map within the county.
Here is a location map within Connected City. As you can see in the red star, it's within the community hub. Community hub within the Comp Plan is defined by medium density and intensity, a mix of uses that support recreation, cultural destinations, and education facilities, as well as mixed use areas serving as neighborhood centers.
Here is the aerial of the site.
Here is the current zoning of the site, which is A C.
And then here is the current master plan. You can see that it's divided into three distinct sections: area A, B, and C. All these areas allow for commercial and retail development with a couple of special um provisions within area A on the left hand side and then area B within the center. Area A is uh contains an additional self-storage facility use. Um That also contains architectural renderings that are required to be submitted prior to site
plan. um and follow uh section uh uh uh eleven hundred for the self-storage facility um requirements, as well as five thousand square feet of uh vertical integrated uses as well on the bottom floor for the self-storage facility. And then on parcels or in areas B and C, which are the parcels in the middle and to the right, uh we have Designed some non-residential form standards to put all the non-residential uses
onto a uh social gathering space. Uh an example of what we wanted to see here is similar to the hub at Bexley or Lexington Oaks, where you have a center's uh park space with commercial uh fronting onto that. So it was a little bit better informed than a standard commercial strip plaza.
Uh here's the context map for you. You can see the subject site in orange and the surrounding MPUDs with the PRI, Ellis, Eppers, and Epperson MPUDs. You can also see that I've highlighted the missing Kenton segment. This segment, uh, the developer has agreed to construct From Elum, a Kinton from Elum down to overpass, inclusive of intersection improvements and signalization. for cash reimbursement. And they're required to submit a development agreement within 180 days
to get those terms and conditions figured out for the reimbursement.
They do have two LDC variations that they're requesting, one from section 522.9 R5, table 522.9 R-3. And this is to reduce the parking ratio for self-storage facilities from one parking space per 300 square feet of office. Plus one space per 1,000 square feet of storage area to a maximum of five spaces. What we found was that the connected city parking standards were. We're asking for more parking than what the standard county uh parking
ratio was. So we just deferred to the standard parking ratio. And then Section 805.6 D to convey wetland areas to a community development district to not convey wetland areas to a community development district for maintenance or property owners association if the parcel remains under single ownership. We expect again this parcel to remain under single ownership and they'll be the maintenance entity for all the wetlands and common areas. So this is coming uh with a recommendation of approval to the Board of County Commissioners of the proposed zoning amendment request
with conditions.
GreyChair
Thank you. Any
Gavin Covey
questions?
GreyChair
Yeah. Okay, thank you very much.
Gavin Covey
If you would like, I can also do the other uh DAs that are in this area that are also building Kenton Road before uh the applicant or I can uh get out of the way if you'd like.
GreyChair
Uh is it the same applicant?
Gavin Covey
Uh different applicant. Clark is the one representing the two D DAs and Barbara's representing this project.
GirardiVice Chair
Okay. I I'm not really comfortable with you opening up public hearing on both unless the applicants agree to that because it's two different applicants. So I don't have my own. Okay.
Barbara Wilhite
Okay.
Connected City
It's the way he
GreyChair
is, you know.
Connected City
Yeah. Doesn't play nicely in the sandbox.
Barbara Wilhite
Barbara Will Heights, 6327, Grand Boulevard for the applicant.
Because I really wanted to show you all. and and any of the public that's interested, the amount of work that we did, because it is in Connected City and it is in the community hub. I think the client's been counting. This is like 15th meeting. We met with commissioners twice to get their input, met with staff a bunch of times, and so we've done a lot of work on it, so I wanted to to show you kind of what we've come up with to expand on what Gavin presented. We've got design enhancement, transportation enhancements. We go through and tell you about the community hub vision and consistency
with the comp plan. I won't bore you with all that detail unless um unless needed. Barbara, why
GreyChair
just clarify your Are you representing f four and eight?
Barbara Wilhite
I'm just number four.
GreyChair
Just number four.
Barbara Wilhite
Mr. Hobby, this the separate guy over there wants to do his own.
GirardiVice Chair
We've not opened up the public hearing on number seven or eight yet.
Barbara Wilhite
Right. And uh the reason why staff wants to present that to you is staff just wants to give you the full picture um of what's going on in this area. D just like I said we did a lot of planning work on this. the fact that we have transportation improvements to answer that question. What's going on with the roads? is pretty cool. 'Cause a lot of times w we don't ha we have the answer of our analysis showed this, we're gonna do this turn lane, but this one actually has a picture of what's gonna happen to Kenton. Um both north of this, including adjacent, as
well as south of this project. What we did here is we broke ourselves into three areas of of development. Trying to to figure out how to um put forth restrictions on form when you don't have any users. It's kind of fun. So you can't do a concept plan 'cause you don't have the users yet, but you want to really have your you know have a good feeling of what the form's gonna be, especially because this is in community hub and the sco social gathering area is important to the community hub. um portion of the connected city. So we agreed
to some interesting things in in areas C and B Again the staff said, you know, we want you to be like the hub and I said, What makes the hub the way it is? Well it's restaurants, cafes, coffee. So we said for the first two years in these two areas we'll limit ourselves we can't develop a anything else other than restaurants and cafes and bars and fast casual uses. Um for both C and B. We said no drive throughs. Uh freestanding drive-throughs are prohibited. Again, we're trying to
make this a place for Community Hub, for the community there. Self-storage, Gavin went through these things. We have our enhanced street-facing facades, maximum of three acres. It was important to the county that they knew what that footprint was going to be and what the remainder of the footprint of the property was going to be. We did vertical integration. You've heard about the so the social gathering area a couple of times.
Pedestrian connectivity was important, building orientation is important. We both We talked about, you know, how do our buildings orient to the roads, how they orient to the social gathering area. Where can you park? Where can't you park? So those are the details that you're seeing here.
Transportation enhancements, obviously staff is going to explain to you and and Mr. Hobby regarding their items on seven and eight, but from our perspective, if you look at our conditions, Kenton Road from Elon north to our our access on on um Kenton has to be improved by us or others. um prior to us building. We have to do a proportionate share contribution for the signal at Kenton Road in Elam. So when we you've heard that the client is going to do that segment, they call it the missing segment of Kenton
between Elam and Overpass. Staff was very clear we're going to cash reimburse for that, but not for your prop share of the signal. So that is on the the client's dime. And as you can s what I just said, we're gonna we're gonna do that portion, that missing segment of Kenton.
GreyChair
So you won't start construction until that's done.
Barbara Wilhite
We won't start construction until North this the north of Elam improvement is done.
We are how we align with the community vision, because I know this has been important to Planning Commission to make sure that we're actually paying attention to Connected City and that staff is doing it and and we did the same thing. We've got our commercial retail components, our neighborhoods serving mix of uses. We're providing that convenience, employment, and essential services. When you look at how connected cities building out in context, this is a natural Neighborhood commercial serving location. Um But we also wanted to make sure it was something special. We've got pedestrian
orientation and interconnected setting and we have we have a hotel as one of our uses.
Consistency with the comp plan, I could read all that to you, but I think you'd throw me out the door if I did all that, but just wanted to to show you the attention to detail and making sure that we looked at every one of those policies. And again, just going through the highlights, we have our hotel, office, retail commercial. We do have storage because it's needed and there's a lot of rooftops, but we were very careful about doing vertical integration and doing how it looks so that it fits as opposed to being the only thing we do. It's actually
more about the vertical integration and more secondary about the fact that we're also ap actu actually able to accomplish storage, which isn't gonna be needed, um, for all those rooftops and the attention to our social gathering area. Thank you.
GreyChair
Very good. Any questions from up here?
Nothing? Okay.
All right. Uh public comment?
Barbara
The first individual signed up to speak on item PC four is Mr. Phil S.
Philip Singletary
Phillip Singletary, [address removed]. Thank you.
Um I feel like we've been a little bit more than a little bit. Not included in this. Mass community center that you have. We I live on Kenton Road. It's a private road. Half mile from uh Elam Road north is private. It's pretty much a one lane road most of the time.
The property in question right now is at the corner of Elam and Kenton. It's ten acres. It's at the very highest point of that road. During the rainy season. Hurricanes. It's a dirt road that washes out. Typical. The neighbors on the road, we all pitch in and we fix the road. It's fine. You put in Ten acres of concrete, asphalt. More cars. More runoff
More water. It's just gonna devastate everybody that lives down the road.
As for the hotel, they're saying that it's for The new hospital.
Across the interstate from the new hospital there's a community thing going on. There's supposed to be a hotel going up in there. Within walking distance to the hospital. They have hotels down on Old Pasco Road. They're building hotels on 52. They're building new Self-contained areas. storage facilities on fifty two. They have multiple ones on fifty four. Why we need another
one, I don't know.
It's my concern that this is just the beginning because when we talked to about uh Aprelli later My issues are gonna be the same. You guys are gonna raise the elevation of this property. And the water has to go somewhere. And it's gonna end up probably in our front yards. Washing out our roads.
We'd just like to be a part of the plan. We act like we're just not being Everything in your plan consists of new development and new people coming in. What about the people that have been here for 50 years? Where do they stand?
That's my question.
GreyChair
Thank you. Are you are you saying that the developer has refused to sp meet with you about the
Philip Singletary
development. All they they they're fine to talk. That's all they do is talk. We're supposed to have access to Parks, you know, all the things that we have or they have. I mean this hotel that you're gonna put up at the corner, are we gonna have access to their pool?
Unidentified speakerVoice A
No.
Philip Singletary
Do we have access to their playgrounds in Epperson and Cannon? Ranch? No. This is all private. There's no community here. So the people that have been here a long time We just Getting tired of being squished. Pretty much it.
Barbara
Okay.
GreyChair
Thank you.
Who's next to speaker?
Barbara
Chair, the next individual is Michael P.
GreyChair
Michael Hugh,
Barbara
P
Unidentified speaker
That's good.
Michael Pultoric
The parks guy.
Hey, Michael Pultoric, [address removed].
[address removed]
So I brought the original transportation master plans because what I wanted to point out was these roads we're talking about. Aren't even listed to be done in the twenty thirty plan. The the next one's coming up and we've already approved. It's gone out of here to the county commission. We've already approved all of the developments. in this area that are on the twenty forty plan. So I'm glad that the missing road that was an issue five, six years ago when we met
each other is being addressed. It absolutely needs a signal there. So I'm happy that's happening. The problem is this is the community hub. And I keep hearing two words parks and staff. Well parks everything has been rezoned. There is no district park, there is no large community parks, it's been flushed on the toilet. All of the impact fees from this entire area, Epperson, Murata, everything in between, was moved out to
Pasadena. That park's not gonna be what was promised and it's ten miles away from these residents. We still don't have the community district park. Penciled in. The other issue is
A self storage unit. in the fine details in the application, it also says on the first floor, that it will have thirty foot wide by sixty foot deep storage units. Well, that sounds like a roundabout for people to run businesses out of. The community hub is not meant for people to move their sprinkler companies or move their businesses into. Because storage units and hotels have their defined area in the connected city for
those developments. It's the innovation zones and it's the business district. I have the Comp Plan. I have the Comp Plan amendment. I'm happy to read it again and put it on the record if you'd like. But hotels and storage units are not part of the purpose or intent of the community hub within the connected city. There's a place for this. And it's on State Road fifty two. If you're gonna say you're gonna put in crates or some restaurants, some cafes, that's a social
gathering place. Fantastic. A hotel? is not supposed to go in the community hub. This is gonna be on a two lane residential road. And I'm I can't imagine any of you gentlemen would vote to approve a storage unit being put on your residential street. Those businesses need to be up on the state road where there's adequate lanes of traffic, where there's adequate safety for everybody getting in and out. And This is absolutely uncalled for in
this area of the connected city. This is supposed to be about families a place where the whole connected city comes together. It's the central portion of the whole thing.
Bay This does not meet the comp plan on any level, even though the uh L D C gets quoted up there. Thank you. All right. Thank you for coming.
GreyChair
Any questions?
Yeah.
Connected City
It it may be helpful though if staff could put up the that map of Connected City just so we can reference it as we're Coming through. Who's next on the agenda? From the presentation.
GreyChair
Who's next?
Barbara
Mr. Chairman is Ms. Michelle B.
Unidentified speakerVoice B
Hi everyone. Hi. Um I'm Michelle Briquett. Um my mom lives at [address removed]. I've lived there my whole life with her on the 10 acres. And what I would like to say is I don't wanna be involved in any of this, the whole hub deal. All I want is us just to have her road back to where it used to be, where we didn't have traffic from the south side and the north side and all this other stuff that's going on around us. When you're gonna put a hotel at
where everybody has 10 acre lots, it's not in the middle of nowhere. It's nowhere even close to a hospital. My daughter, when she was in an accident back in 2021, we tried to find a hospital at all children's hospital. We tried to find a good hotel for us to stay at. Everyone that was near a hospital was awful. I hate to say that, but it was. We had to travel really, really, really far to find a hotel. Find a good one. Because all it attracted was transients, people that couldn't afford a nice hotel. So I'm afraid what's
gonna happen is this hotel is gonna end up being like one of those. And then guess what? We're gonna have people coming down Kenton Road, being nosy like they already do already with their foilers, their side by sides, um coming from the hockey place, you name it, we're getting it from both ends. Then you have the storage unit. Well the storage unit's gonna add more people to it, transient, people that just wanna kinda hang around. And then you have another section of it that we don't know what's gonna exactly go do in the other section. Y'all have it open for other
things. We don't know what's gonna happen with that either. I mean this is like out in the middle of nowhere. I I just don't understand why this is going to blend. It doesn't blend. I don't care about the pool. Uh Phil had a good point, but I don't care about the pool and all that stuff. I just want my ten our ten acres back to our private. I want it cut at the end of Elam Road. And I want it cut at the other end of Kenton Road, because the first half is eleven peop ten or eleven people that live there. We just want our peace. We don't want to be involved in
connected city. We just want to come into our house, enjoy some peace, and then go out to the craziness that we do every day. So that's all we're asking. You know, y'all are supposed to be here to help us. And be here for us and speak for us. We're trying to keep telling you what's going on and nobody's listening. And it's just it's just terrible. That's all I have to say. And I got more to come, but everybody else is doing really good too, Mike and Phil. So Where are you
GreyChair
on that map, please?
Unidentified speakerVoice B
I am on Elam Road. I am on the um I just had a brain fire. On the um south side. I'm at the end where all this corner is. I'm halfway down the hill. Mr. Williams actually knows where I live and how bad this road is. And when the other comment I've got 27 seconds. And the other comment about how bad the road gets when it gets fixed. And we all pitch in to fix it, okay? Our portion. When it rains, oh, it's awful. Ask him, he knows. He thought
he's got lost a couple of times, fall into a hole, uh um I mean it's just really, really bad. And when you elevate it, like Mr. Phil said, It's gonna be even worse. I mean, we're gonna we already have a dish that goes across there. So it's just you're adding more to the chaos. Thank you. I appreciate it.
GreyChair
Oh, that's okay. Uh any questions up here.
Okay, thank you very much.
Next.
Barbara
Mr. Chair, the last individual pre-registered to speak on item PC four is Ms. Jennifer McCarthy.
GreyChair
You just have your name, Jennifer, and address, please.
Unidentified speakerVoice C
Sure. Jennifer McCarthy, [address removed].
So I obviously live next to um the Singletaries and ECUS and we all have the same concerns and we've been voicing the same concerns since 2014. Um so I n not nothing has been done. Um so particularly with this development, I have questions about how the hotel and storage unit fit in as far as a community hub. Um I was told by Ernie Monaco, by Matt Armstrong, by all these long-term developers that have since left Pasco County when
this was being, you know, talked about between when they were they were there what 2014 to 2020, 19 is when Ernie left. There would be buffers, there would be a step down. We are not putting commercial next to your all's residential property. So there's we're on Kenton Road here, there's 10 10-acre parcels. So this is the first one. They said, you don't have to worry about a gas station coming next to you. Well, here we go. We have uh open. I don't see anything saying that a gas station couldn't go in that first spot, but
here, that's here and we're there. But you still have a storage unit and a hotel going. So uh I I the buffering and the step down that was promised, what is here is is it's not done and it's not enough. Um I also have concerns about water runoff. I I again this is at the top of Kenton Road. The water is gonna go somewhere. If they direct it into the conservation behind, it comes up behind our property, eventually makes it into the well over by
where is that behind Old Pasco, floods there, and then floods uh the East Paget. So everything that flooded two years ago with the you know, five hundred year event. This h things like this property help. Well if it's all paved over and and not properly mitigated is gonna Um Make it worse, not just in our vicinity, but in all of Pasco County that was dealing with this a couple years ago. Um I also c a couple of questions. I
don't see the max height of the buildings that's promised. And also in PC four it says that they're going to MPUD but on her thing it says CC MPUD. Um so I do think that that's different. And last or not last but until my time runs out here The sign was put up And then uh two weeks before the original meeting on February 5th, and I'm sure it was advertised in the the R in the newspaper. And then it was continued with no notice, other than somebody
actively going on to the agenda sheet. And then there was nothing else on the sign. So there's nothing on the sign saying, hey, now this has been moved on to this meeting. So this is what has been happening over the past 12 years now is we've been chasing dates. And if y'all think it's easy to find agenda dates other than it going individually through the Pasco Planning Commission, it's very difficult for residents to find this information. I don't understand why the sign wasn't updated. I don't understand why they applied when I feel like
in situations like this they almost knew that they were just going to immediately continue it so that residents would go out of their way to make plans, which I did, and then have to now do this a month later. It's very difficult. It's very difficult. Right? I I just would question, hey, we're m we put up this sign and then five days later we're continuing it. Why isn't something posted on there to say here's the new date? Because people driving down are are not doing this. It should be easy for the residents to come in here and talk. So I feel very strongly about this. I've been chasing
dates on signs for twelve years. It's super convenient, but if they're not updated, they're meaningless. So I I question whether there is They should be updating these because there's been some talk that they should be updating them, not just putting another thing in the Tampa Bay Times that nobody has access to. Or easily. I don't know. It's not easy. I'm I'm I I always feel like I can find things and this is very difficult for me every single time to chase these dates. So thank you.
GreyChair
Thank you very much. Appreciate you
Connected City
coming.
I know there's some discussions of improvements for the website, uh being able to get some of the stuff online that was posted Yeah, so I don't know if Mr. Engel could comment to that.
Chris Williams
Mm-hmm.
David Engel
It's a long walk to tell you I can't comment. Um But um we do have a procedure. Um Patty uh handles our advertising and Uh I'm not the uh subject matter expert. Amy, could you um Did you come up here and ask some questions about signposting with the procedure?
Connected City
Well not just that. I know that um we've had some discussion at these hearings in the past about some um additional improvements that this staff was looking to implement to um Be able to provide notice online, you know, through either social media or through website postings, things like that.
Amy Heiler
Correct, yes. So we are working on updating the development review manual to make sure it's clear on how to process um and post signage and we will be adding uh conditional or A request a continuance request, excuse me. um as part of that portion of the development and review manual. We're just working on updating that right now on various elements of that that document.
GirardiVice Chair
Right. And it's but there was the questions about when we intend to move from newspaper advertisements to website advertisements.
Amy Heiler
So uh column is currently under review uh through the legal provisions. Terry can Speak to
Nectarios Pittos
that a little bit more. Just to be more clear, Nicaragua's Pito's Planning Development Economic Growth. So Column is a vendor that the county is working with to post our public hearing notices online. a uh pr right now where it stands as the preliminary contract is with the column attorneys. currently under review by them. We're hoping to see that pretty soon. Um We keep pastoring them uh week by week, month to month. Uh and we're sort of at the mercy of Kalam getting back to us before we can Look at the changes that they want to make if they
want to make any uh and send them send it forward to our purchasing department and then to the county attorney's office.
Moody
Well how come not on the county's website?
Nectarios Pittos
It will be a component of the county website, right?
GirardiVice Chair
That is the goal is to move all of the newspaper advertisements to the county's website.
Moody
Not understanding why we need an outside vendor to do that, but
GirardiVice Chair
I'll let Mr. Pretos explain that.
Nectarios Pittos
There are there's significant logistics involved associated with identifying the dates for projects and how to move forward with them and the juggling of that. Uh part of the rationale for going to an outside vendor is so that the developers can interact directly through that platform that they provide to us. and uh make their postings accordingly without necessarily having county staff be middlemen.
Connected City
Yeah.
Yeah, I just wanted to address the the last uh person who came up to speak 'cause I knew that was something we discussed and uh you know, I tend to agree with her. It's sometimes difficult to keep up with the continuances and and all that. And we want to make sure everybody has a chance to come here and speak. They have to take off work in order to get here in the middle of the day a lot of times. So I would
Nectarios Pittos
just say that um as it relates to continuances, um there are continuances when applicants are requesting them because they learn about certain issues that the community has and so they want to be able to address them before they actually make presentation to the Planning Commission or the Board. Then there are other times where uh the county requests continuances because the project is not ready to proceed Uh at least as we see it based on the review, um we decide that This needs a little bit more time before it goes to the public for public discourse.
Connected City
Yeah. And I understand where a lot of things may be last minute, but that's where the online posting would come in pretty handy to be able to get that information out quickly to the public.
Nectarios Pittos
Thank you.
GreyChair
Right.
Anybody else on our list?
Barbara
No, Mr. Chairman Mari
GreyChair
Is there anybody that would like to speak to this that hasn't had an opportunity?
Okay. I don't see anyone. Barbara, you want to re address those questions, concerns?
Barbara Wilhite
So I took good notes and Bruce Landis is going to talk about uh stormwater and drainage. But With regard to road improvements, The road improvements are coming. You've got our commitment, our client's commitment to do the missing segment. You've got two DAs on So And they're it's not going to stay like it is. There's a lot of homes improved in this area. There is road improv massive road improvements, four lane Yeah, it's it's it's changing. It's part of the Connected
City Master Plan. That was a master planning effort. But Yeah, had a lot of participation in it. The community hub we absolutely fit. When when you look at Connected City, there's a list of there's a There's guidance and then there's prohibited uses. And hotel's not prohibited, commercial's not prohibited, 'cause all those things are actually neighborhood serving.
We um this I'm not sure the confusion about storage. It's storage with first floor retail and we were trying to make sure we were very specific to make sure that we actually achieve the floor first floor retail. It's not first floor storage. It's not for contractors and it's actual for commercial retail uses. So I'm not sure where that concern comes in. Um so there won't be businesses other than commercial retail businesses operating on the first floor of
the storage uh facility. Again storage is needed. It's absolutely needed. the commercial uses and proximity to where these homes are. If you look to the south, there's there's just a lot of homes. And having commercial in proximity so you don't have to drive all the way to fifty two is something the county encourages. And actually kinda demands.
I understand, I can hear the neighbors 'cause it's changing. and they want it to back the way it the way it's going to be. There's already been a lot approved. And this is just going to this complements what's already been decided and already been approved pursuant to the connected city master plan. The concern regarding gas station, we actually have a whole list of prohibited uses. Convenience store with gas, standalone car washes, vehicle sales, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, welding, machine, sheet metal, trade shops, boat and RV storage, vehicle or equipment
garage, auto service, lumber y lumber yards, standalone lawn lawn mower or small equipment sales. I know Mr. Booty loves that one. Standalone outdoor pottery, propane, septic tanks, sod sales, shooting, archery ranges, solar power collection facility, automobile towing and collection facility. So we were thoughtful of the fact that we are in the in the middle of a community. and and what we can and can't do here. Even to the fact that we can't have a standalone um Uh
drive through. So no McDonald's, no Wendy's. So we were thoughtful of of where we f where we are in commu community hub and paid a lot of attention to the fact of where we're at when we agreed to all the design parameters and all the things we can and cannot do.
With that, and the answer on maximum height is five stories, um I just checked the MP plan. With that I heard drainage and stormwater and concerns regarding that, so I'd like for Bruce Landis to come up and Talk to you a little bit about that.
Moody
Do that. You said you didn't want to bore us with the slide on how this complied with the comprehensive plan.
Barbara Wilhite
Yes.
Moody
Since there are objectors, can we go through what that argument is?
Barbara Wilhite
Sure.
Moody
And then can I ask you to add pawn shop with outside junk display to that list too? So Terry?
Band uses too. Pawn shops. You know, we seem to have a problem. We seem to have a problem with all the lawnmower shops, but yet every day on my way to work I pass 20 pawn shops with nothing but junk bicycles, junk lawnmowers, junk pressure
Barbara Wilhite
washers. My clients are agreeing to add that to the prohibited list.
Connected City
Yeah, if you agree to that. But then you get the guy dancing with the sign in the front, you know.
Moody
I know. That's on the illegal uh boat dealership on fifty two too. the code enforcement doesn't want to deal with.
Barbara Wilhite
So you can see these policies incorporate the location of public spaces, um, pedestrian bicycle networks. To create create safe and convenient access. Encourage a mix of mix of land uses, look at building and site design. public elements that frame and activate the streets in the public spaces. Our social gathering area is exactly that. provide em provide mixed use areas within all connected city special planning areas. So that's
something that you'll see when you look at the comp plan, you'll see that there's prohibited uses and then there's specific that they're encouraged to have mixed use, have a mixture of uses. And that's exactly what we're doing for Community Hub, is we're adding the locally serving commercial. because that's something that the community hub doesn't have. To date, what's been approved to date?
Co-location of uses that we're complementing each other. We've spent a lot of time on that by the fact that all the things that we can't do.
encourage and beneficial use of of uh mix of uses that's compatible in form and character to the surrounding neighborhoods or they mediate context. You can't and you can't look because this is connected city You have to look at what it's approved for and what's already been approved. We actually are fitting into the connected city future as opposed to connected city how it looks today. And I know that's hard because the area's changing. Allow business and employment opportunities and all connected city special planning area
zones. Build a built environment that optimizes the opportunities for walking and building. Well we're doing walking, biking, and and gathering. Through the way that we're laying out our non-residential uses. Create authentic social gathering spaces. integrated into neighborhoods and employment areas. Strategically located at comfortable walking distance. Would not be a comfortable walking distance to State Road 52.
connect through safe and comfort c comfortable pedestrian bicycle neighborhood vehicle links. All of your roads are designed in connected city with all of those things in mind. When they're improved, they'll be improved so that you do have neighborhood vehicle links and you do have bike and pedestrian facilities. Develop mixed-use areas that employ a combination of land use and design strategies that create a vibrant attractive destination to provide a variety of social gathering spaces.
We spent a lot of time doing that actually. Land Development Code shall mandate with all connected city redevelopment efforts the need to locate complementary uses in close proximity to each other to provide walking, biking, neighborhood vehicles, and transit opportunities. We are absolutely located in the perfect location to provide that for the communities that are being built around.
Moody
Is there any kind of Graphic or rendering that shows what the uh the concept for the gathering space. One of the problems we've had in the past with Connected City and the complaints from the residents. Is they've They've picked apart. what the vision was for each of those areas of connected city. And we spent a lot of time in previous public hearing about
that and I I hear staff it sounds like you've attempted to integrate social gathering Cultural. value into the development but And I understand why you don't want to provide a cons a binding concept plan for a commercial property 'cause you don't know who your users are, but I think it would be helpful if we could kind of s if you could show the public what you have in mind for the community gathering space.
I think that would help make the sale, so to speak. Right now I'm looking at just a big Page. rectangle that says I'm gonna put a hotel here and I'm gonna put commercial here and I'm told there's going to be a social gathering space but I don't know where it is, what it looks like.
I think that would be helpful. I'm not asking you to submit a binding plan, but is there some kind of vision you can show us so we have an idea of what it is we're talking about? I don't know whether that means I don't know what that means. Is it a one table i i if in the middle of a coffee shop and a donut shop? Or, you know, is this a big fountain? Is this a park? What what is this?
Barbara Wilhite
So I can't show you something because I'd be showing you something that I don't know that I can do and I'll never do that. But I can tell you that we've spent a lot of time writing restrictions on how buildings orient. They have to orient both in B and C have they have to orient to the social a social gathering area. No parking. In between those buildings the and the social gathering area. So you can already see it starting to form if you think about what that means. Buildings, no parking in between. If we have a hotel
use, we can have one row of parking in between the social gathering area, but on the in A, excuse me, in C, No parking between our retail buildings and our social gathering.
It it it is hard to do without zoning. So what we did is put all the the things that will set up the form and ultimately staff has to approve it as meeting the intent of all the requirements.
Moody
Okay, so the difficulty that I'm having with that Is. Someone can come in and put up buildings and leave ten square feet f ten square feet and say that's my social gathering area and you'll say, Look, I've met the intent of the code and Mr. Poltorek will be back up here going, What in the hell did you guys approve up here?
It would be helpful if there could be some basic standards, dimensional standards or form standards for that. I get what you're saying. Well but I don't feel like there's enough
enough defined requirement for that space and that's been One of the the big points of contention with the public that objects to what's going on in Connected City out here. And I think it would be helpful if there was some kind of visual as to what the intent is there. I'm not asking you to commit to a final design, but at least you know, I'll make it a thousand square feet or ten thousand square feet, or maybe the intent is ten square feet, I don't know. But I don't know what
that is right now.
Barbara Wilhite
All I can tell you is that there's a whole list of uh requirements on how we do this. And there's many different ways it'll be done depending on who the users are. So I don't know. know what uh more I can do. other than put all these restrictions on, even down to the use. We have to have we can't put anything in there but restaurants and cafes. We have to provide an orient to an actual social gathering area in our buildings. We can't have parking in between. I mean it's it is there's nothing else like this. I haven't written this
ever before. My clients are like, oh my god. Um Because we don't have, you know, all these restrictions. But it's um The conditions are pretty robust, but You just can't put forth a concept plan of something that we don't know we're gonna do 'cause there's a Yeah there's a million different configurations depending on who the users are.
GirardiVice Chair
Okay.
Barbara Wilhite
And ultimately it'll be up to the staff to to say whether we've met the social gathering area requirements of the comprehensive plan. We have to be consistent with the comprehensive plan through every Every phase, whether it's a few years, you know.
Moody
But you're telling us we need to rely on the staff to to enforce those provisions when we've had testimony for hours from the public about how the entire design of this community hub area doesn't even meet the in the stated intent in the connected city. Master plan.
Would be all I'm saying it would be a lot easier to make the decision if there was some visual attached to that.
Barbara Wilhite
And we talked about that and we talked about with staff. You know, I just I have never wanted to bring something forward and show you something that's not gonna be So and neighbors get noticed when plans are done, signs go up. properties noticed when our plans come in. They have every opportunity to participate then. And again, we have to be consistent with the comp plan all the way through.
Moody
Again, I don't mean to be over-argumentative, but at the time of site plan the public has absolutely zero rights at that point. They get a notice, that's it. They have zero right of redress over a site plan at that point.
Barbara Wilhite
Well make sure that these conditions are the
Moody
redress is here at the zoning zoning.
Connected City
Yeah, even if it was an exhibit that was added to um the Connected City documentation, you know, saying here's a few examples of what a common area would be, or you know, even if it's not something that's binding, at least if there's some concepts that we can say, you know, it's at least this many square feet, it has these kind of features that that's sort of thing. So that's again more directed at staff than than you guys. I understand what you're working with.
Moody
A social gathering space is just a very nebulous term. Again, it could be a ten square foot area of grass for your dog to be on.
Barbara Wilhite
Well your code the code spells out what you have to do for a social gathering. You gotta remember this connected city has been implemented in the code. So we're following the code, exceeding the code. But there's actually a land development code for this area. So there's all all the details are in that land development code.
But So I guess I just need to know what you all want to do because I don't have today, I don't have any examples because I don't have any users. Um
Moody
Well, is there something in the code that illustrates what this is supposed to look like? Staff. How does the staff decide on what's a social gathering space? Or what co what constitutes that?
David Engel
The social gathering area is a common area in a commercial node that is not attributable to one specific tenant or user. So it's an area that uh is available to the public. for mixed gatherings without being associated to a specific business. And it's usually central or in to the commercial pod.
Way to nail it down.
But yes, a definition for you.
Planning and Development staff
William From Million Planning Development Economic Growth. Let me see if I can fit this big laptop up here. The county refuses to get me a smaller one. So what in the green space.
Moody
One day you'll appreciate that when you need these.
Planning and Development staff
Keeping me strong though, it's pretty heavy. Uh so in the in the Connected City Land Development Code there is a specific section that speaks to what social gathering spaces are when that word is referenced. Right. When that word is referenced throughout the comp plan What is a social gathering space? The Land Development Code has uh I don't know if it'll be easier for me to read this to you. There's three paragraphs or if Patty could share it on the screen if that'd be easier. Would you like me to read it? I'll should do both. I'll
I'll begin to read as Patty pulls it up. It it speaks to the requirements of an application to show this, to generally describe the location and the type of space that will be integrated into the design of the projects.
three different bullet points for what these spaces should be. The first is accessible by at least two of the following. Automobile, neighborhood vehic neighborhood vehicle, bicycle, or foot. So it the first bullet speaks to the the accessibility of the social gathering space by at least uh two different transportation methods. The second talks about public or private establishments included but not limited to parks, schools, libraries, cafes, and bookstores. So I
believe the the commercial retail component, we spoke about cafes, bars, and restaurants, they're hitting that second bullet point of social gathering space. And the third is that it's encouraged to be co-located with civic space like schools or libraries.
Moody
So it's not a
Public open space. If if I'm understanding you correctly, this can constitute a cafe A bookstore.
Planning and Development staff
Well a a ca a cafe would make up a portion of the periphery of the social gathering space. So in the the conditions of approval We did more nail down, even more specifically than the land development code, the use of um of flex lawns different kinds of plannings and public art that actually inhabit the overall space. Can you go over what those are? The the conditions of approval? I actually have them up on my other screen.
So that includes flex lawn space, landscape beds with public seating, fountains, or public art facilities.
Moody
Okay.
That's If you're you've answered the question now, that's what I was missing. Yes, sir.
Connected City
Can you speak to um you may n may not know the answer to this question, but something else we've discussed when we've discussed p uh connected city projects is as these projects start to infill into Connected City. We were discussing kind of having a overview of some of the things that have been approved. uh in order to try to get an idea of what is truly cohesive with other projects that have been approved nearby. And we
d we discussed, you know, trying to put together some sort of a map or some sort of a uh general overview of all of Connected City to see You know, that way we don't end up with a hodgepodge um you know, because obviously these infill projects are coming uh piecemeal and so but we need to make sure it's a part of the cohesive plan. So is there anything been been done on that since the last time we talked about it the this meeting?
Planning and Development staff
Yes, sir. So the the first portion of of what staff did in addressing that uh that concern was we first looked at I believe that the first question asked of us both by the Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners was getting to the bottom of the single family entitlement discussion as especially as it pertained to land use within Connected City. So the first step that staff did was Uh through GIS, uh we tracked the amount of single family entitlements that had been issued. the amount that had been built and the allowable uh
developable acreage left to fit the amount of entitlements that had been entitled but hadn't been used by a builder yet to see if there was enough developable acreage with the amount of entitlements to build out those single family uh units. So we we got to the bottom of that and I believe It was last year uh Metro and myself and PDE, we gave those findings to the Board of County Commissioners finding there there is in fact single family entitlements that weren't used by some of the larger Land groups ahead grabbed up
those entitlements and that that could ostensibly be used in other portions of Connected City where single family land use pattern may be more acceptable. So that that was our that was our first step and that was the more extensive step of the plan. Uh we have been gathering information for a map as it pertains to the industrial and and employment center entitlements, especially as it pertain to our Most recent modification to Pasco Town Center, even though not a part of Connected City. uh opted in.
It is still a large portion of Connected City and does still serve um the connected city land use that was allocated for that area. In fact it exceeds that amount. and then we've been working our way further south into areas like community hubs when we talk about um tall timbers as it relates to park space and the bus depot property on the other side on trying to accommodate a more centralized park space for the residents outside of the V OPH superpark. How's that coming? It it's coming well. The the longest part of that is staff working within the GIS platform
to properly map it. The entitlements and the land use is very easy to find. But whenever we become uh you know when we're actually formally mapping this out to bring you guys a completed package, that's the longer portion. I didn't mean the mapping, I meant
Moody
when I said how's that coming coming
Planning and Development staff
the the
Moody
park, park,
Planning and Development staff
the
Moody
whole park and bus dealing? Yeah, there's
Connected City
a lot of discussion about that too.
Planning and Development staff
positively benefits the landowner of tall timbers without hindering their development potential as well as advancing uh the need for a neighborhood park.
Connected City
Yeah, I mean it I th I think it may make sense to have a project like this on the perimeter of this community hub, but the whole idea of this central area of the community hub is to have a community hub, so and that would be a park area, that that type of thing, so That's why you know that was of interest to the planning committee Planning Commission when we uh discussed this before.
Chris Williams
Certainly. Do you recall how many units were left over? Because I I recall that they were all used, but I just want to check on how many.
Planning and Development staff
Remembering the number off the top of my head. It was a it was a substantial amount. It wasn't A hundred and three units. It was It was more north. uh getting towards the the one thousand. The the issue is the the amount of developable acreage left. for those entitlements, it's a little bit harder to fit those in. Right, so those larger projects like Epperson and Mirata, typically projects tend to overentitle themselves and by the time they lay out stormwater And do all their final engineering
of the roads, they end up with an excess of these entitlements. And that was part of that first study that we found. was the the excess of those entitlements.
Chris Williams
I'd be very curious to see what that information is, if you can provide that.
Planning and Development staff
I believe Mr. Covey's diligently trying to pull up that study for me and I'm Doing a good job at stalling.
Connected City
Ha ha.
But do you think it's in the upper hundreds area? Yeah. Uh yes sir, I
Planning and Development staff
wouldn't be five
Connected City
hundred and
Planning and Development staff
thousands somewhere.
Okay.
Connected City
But you're thinking that the remaining buildable area probably wouldn't support that much?
Planning and Development staff
Especially within the connected area SPA zones that prohibit single family that remain.
Chris Williams
You're sick.
Planning and Development staff
So about forty-five percent of the thirty one hundred. Uh single family detacher actually left.
GirardiVice Chair
Oh.
Planning and Development staff
About actually well it was way off. It's about four thousand left. Oh
Chris Williams
well.
Planning and Development staff
Four
Chris Williams
thousand single family detached or multifamily? That's just single family detached. Entitled or not used. I thought they were all entitled and
Planning and Development staff
used up. Well so the confusion came from entitling them doesn't necessarily use them up. So they were all issued and entitled. But it was an overentitling of the land whenever it was actually engineered. And we're working on a way that those entitlements then come back to the overall connected city pot to be used by other developers in areas where it makes sense to have single family detached.
GirardiVice Chair
William, were they entitled with a loom
Planning and Development staff
though?
Oh s I can't remember every single MPUD, but by and large a lot of MPUDs have a loom. That's why um we've been working on the if
GirardiVice Chair
they had a loom I don't do you confident that they won't they they won't exchange those Those units for multifamily or commercial?
Planning and Development staff
Uh, uh they could and even then with the four thousand units there still would certainly be an excess of single family detached even after you use the loom with the developable acreage left within those MPUDs.
Chris Williams
'Cause my concern is with four thousand single family detached units left, that's that's a significant number of students. So that impacts my You know. What I need to provide capacity for in the future. And I was thinking I had had sufficient already. So that's a game changer if that's the case.
Planning and Development staff
certainly to David's point when you when you factor in the loom and the developable acreage left I don't really think that you're gonna be left with a A very high delta between the difference in what you've planned and what's built on the ground. and that portion of four thousand that's left. Most likely Uh you're probably gonna be dealing with more townhomes and multifamily is the development pattern uh within the SPA zones that's left. A lot of the north and south innovation zones have already been developed, which is the predominant single family uh land use area within connected city.
Any further questions for me? For the from the m planning commission members.
Connected City
Thanks for the info.
Planning and Development staff
Thank you.
Nectarios Pittos
Uh Nicaragua Switzer was playing Development Ec Economic Growth. Um on the screen on the overhead screen is the map of Connected City. And let's see if this works. Uh just to add a little bit of color to what Will was mentioning, as it relates to the larger projects that used much of the single-family entitlement. Um this is Maratha, so this is where a vast majority of single family entitlement was used in Connecticut City. And of course Epperson is down here. They use quite a bit of uh the single family entitlement.
What remains then, um in and then of course this is the town center the Pasco Town Center area. Abby Crossing M P U D is right about here. What remains then in Connected City for potential use of single family entitlement, single family uh detached entitlement, are these areas here where you see uh many single family existing single family lots. Um along the West and east side of Kenton as you move south. North is left on this map. Uh and then in this area
also. Um So th there's not quite as much geography available in Connected City to accommodate all four thousand single family homes. That there may be some single family homes that come out of the what's o what's been overentitled Probably. But we're not looking at four thousand. Because that would be on the order of Murata or Eperson and there's not enough space in a connected city to accommodate another Murata or another Eperson. Thank
you. Thank you,
GreyChair
Terry.
Barbara Wilhite
Barbara Wilheite, we were trying to see what else we could come up with back here while you guys were talking. One thing that we thought of is mandate mandating that we have a property owners association and that the social at gathering area is a common area to the POA, so it won't be controlled by Starbucks or it would actually be common Which makes it more open. So I thought that might be a good thing to do. Um so it's not controlled by a certain user out there.
Moody
Well I appreciate that. I just did not understand what was meant by that term. But we'll explain From the code, how they determine what constitutes a social gathering space. Okay, I get it. I
Barbara Wilhite
do like
Connected City
that idea.
Barbara Wilhite
It's truly a common area. It's common to our our property association.
So it'll be I think that'll help define it even more as opposed to just being somebody's outdoor seating.
Connected City
So that'd be an added uh condition of approval for
Barbara Wilhite
the right-of-way. In addition to the pawn shops.
Connected City
And you
Barbara Wilhite
being prohibited.
Connected City
You said
Chris Williams
before you were gonna talk about drainage.
Barbara Wilhite
Yes.
Chris Williams
Well absolutely before. I mean, maybe it's obvious to everybody, but I know folks were talking about the residents there, how they own that road. So so it looks like to me though that the road would actually probably be shifted a little bit to the east and it would be built on your clients. property, the whatever the new Kenton is, is that correct?
Barbara Wilhite
The expert on the new Kenton. It's back here. Mr. Hobby, he has the two development agreements before you today.
Unidentified speaker
Oh okay.
Barbara Wilhite
I only know a little bit about the missing segment because that's what my client's gonna do. So there's your you got your expert back there.
GreyChair
Thank you. You have a segment that you're gonna be per paving though as well, right?
Barbara Wilhite
We're
GreyChair
not going to be able to do that.
Barbara Wilhite
w if nobody the way our condition is written is that we have to make sure that that segment of Kenton from the intersection to our entrance is improved to Connecticut Standards before our first C O If somebody else doesn't do it, Pursuant to these DAs. then we have to do it. But it's certainly intended that that they are gonna, you know, follow through with their development agreements and so
Connected City
one way or another it'll get done as
Barbara Wilhite
yes we have layers of People like the missing segment, there's multiple people that'll stand up and get that done, inter interestingly enough. So there's a lot of interest in getting that road done.
Connected City
And you're talking about the segment between Elam and uh
Barbara Wilhite
R segment is what's called the missing segment by staff is Elam to Overpass.
And do you want to hear drainage?
GreyChair
Yes.
Barbara Wilhite
Okay,
GreyChair
great. Absolutely.
Bruce Landis
Thank you, Barbara. Uh good afternoon, Commissioners. For the record, my name is Bruce Landis with Landis Evans and Partners, 3810 North Dale Boulevard. Uh Tampa, Florida. I think one of the first members of the public, a gentleman, Mr. Singletary, I believe, brought up the drainage on Elan Road. Um I'm not familiar with those particular um issues on the road drainage itself, but I can tell you Our property uh drains to the northwest, so north-northwest, away from Eland
Road. So if uh in your packages you look in the, I think it's the fourth sheet of our uh CC MPUD plan, we have the topo there, and you can see for yourself on the topo that we drain away from that road. So our development would not be contributing to uh additional flow. from that. And with regard to when the development goes on and and and the various impervious surfaces that are are provided there. Our permitting requirements that we'll be fulfilling are from Pasco
County and then the state through the Southwest Water Management District, Swift MUD. And this is an open drainage area that we're basin that we're draining into to the north-northwest. So we'll be meeting their criteria of limiting our post-development runoff to what pre-development runoff? Is in a 25-year, 24-hour storm. So we'll not be contributing uh any additional uh runoff in the post-development situations.
Any questions on the topic?
Okay.
GreyChair
No, I just think uh the residents there need to understand how that works. That's uh definitely a point of clarification of uh If any I think Mr. Singletary. Um Did you understand that explanation?
Okay. Yeah you if you're gonna speak you need to come up to the microphone. Sorry, I don't normally call anybody up a second time.
Philip Singletary
I don't want to come up anyway.
Right now his property is pasture. They got cows on it. Yes, the property does flow to the northwest. That's just a natural flow because everything goes to the northwest, that's where the swamp is, behind all of our houses. you concrete that or pave it or something, you're gonna level it out. That water's gonna go somewhere. If you've ever been just drive by the road. Their property is on the top part of the road. The water rushes down the road and
it there literally makes trenches in the road. When it gets down to the bottom where it settles, it creates potholes. Granted his property probably does flow that way, but the road is still Going to cause a problem, but we can fix the road. I'm not that's not a problem. We can do that. Other thing I wanted to mention if you did if you would uh your community hubs and your community projects seem to omit the existing communities. Everything's
for the new people. So we're just kind of just Swept onto the rug, and just accept what's coming. Because it's good for the community. We like our community just the way it is. Thank you.
And I appreciate you standing up, Mr. Moody. I appreciate that.
Moody
Well, I just want you to understand something. The the Planning Commission Didn't decide there would be a connected city. The state legislature did. All right. This was forced down. Our throat. And so now we have to deal with the fallout from that and we're trying to do the best job we can. But We did not elect to create A connected city here.
Connected City
And And logistically it's you know, where it's located in the county this is pr this is basically the only place that it would work given the access to seventy five and the interchanges on seventy five, which is very difficult to get the Florida D O T uh to get an interchange, so You know, this is this is where it ended up.
GreyChair
Okay. Yes, did you sign up to speak? I'm sorry. Did you sign up to speak?
Unidentified speakerVoice D
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Uh Stacy Johnson, uh [address removed]. Wesley I'm in Lake Seth
GreyChair
Weightman. Have you been sworn?
Unidentified speakerVoice D
I'm sorry.
GreyChair
Have you been sworn? No. Okay, okay.
County Clerk
You swear from the testimony you're about to give is the truth of God. I do.
GreyChair
Thank you. That was wrong hand.
Unidentified speakerVoice D
Oh, sorry. It
was
just common turned that way. My bad. Okay. I live on [address removed]. I'm the literally the last house on the left. I have a private bridge you have to go over. Um I'm that upside down arrow that goes from yellow to black. to magenta. The back end of my three acres has never ever flooded, ever had an issue. Two years ago with the storm at once my neighbors depleted the drainage. Fr from Epperson
and Marahda, and then we flooded out. I was flooded for 10 days. I have animals on the property, I have kids on the property, and I'm an elderly. Man that lives with with me on the property. We were stuck ten days, nobody came to help, nobody came down. With all of this new construction being built, I am at Northwest Corner. I'm next to the swamp, I'm next to those 40 acres, I'm there. I can't take another hit. So I don't know what's going on. I never get any information from anyone.
I call the county, I'm Call this person, call that person. It's just me down there trying to survive with all those people. So I'm very concerned with all this new build Literally I'm the lowest level in the neighborhood.
GreyChair
Okay. No, that's no no problem. I think um Um Mm. Their expert would be more than happy to spend some time Explaining it to you and answering some of your questions. I think you deserve to get that. Uh Barbara, am I correct?
Barbara Wilhite
Happy to do that. If Bruce wants to get with you and get your information. It's important to me that I've answered your questions, so I come back up here just to make sure that I have answered your questions.
GirardiVice Chair
So Barbara, just to be clear, are you asking us to partially deny your variance variation requests?
Barbara Wilhite
I'm amending my variation request on the record.
GirardiVice Chair
Okay.
Because you do want to have a property owners association
But only for the limited purpose of your own. I guess I'm confused because the current request is to not have one at all. Are you saying you Now want to have one but only for the limited purpose of the easement.
Barbara Wilhite
I am withdrawing our vari variation request. We will have a property owners association for this project that will include all of the development in the pro in the project.
GirardiVice Chair
All the common areas basically.
Barbara Wilhite
It'll have a property association. So we'll have common areas, we'll have the all the different Users will be part of a POA.
GirardiVice Chair
Okay. That makes it clearer.
GreyChair
Barbara, just a curiosity.
There's a feeling from their current residents that they're living in that area that they're not just not included in any of the questions or you know, proposals and so forth like that. And I know you usually make a extra effort to try to include people in the area and the neighborhoods to make sure they know what's going on and they ha you get their input. Um can you explain to me why they feel that way now?
Barbara Wilhite
Nobody's ever reached out to me. This has been pending for a long time. I saw it on social media the day it got Connected city. It's on the social media and the day it got applied for, so I would always meet with people and I'll still meet with people but between now and the Board of County Commissioners. Um and be happy to do that.
GreyChair
Okay, yeah, I mean I think that'd be a great idea.
Barbara Wilhite
Always happy to meet. But I don't know who to meet with if nobody reaches out. But they're here today, so they're reaching out.
GreyChair
That's right, he's number yeah.
Barbara Wilhite
Thank you.
GreyChair
Okay.
Alright. Having heard all the arguments, uh your motion.
GirardiVice Chair
So whoever's making the motion, it needs to include the deletion of the last two sentences of condition five if Barbara's withdrawing her variation request.
Barbara Wilhite
That's agreeable.
Connected City
All right. So I move approval with the deletion of the last two sentences of condition five as uh Mr. Goldteen um mentioned and then Um Also to add the condition regarding the Uh P O A. And Adding a restriction for pawn shops.
GirardiVice Chair
Yeah, to be clear, condition five actually already requires a POA. Okay, so if you remove the last two sentences of five, you already are requiring the POA.
Barbara Wilhite
You just you want to you want to add us to add a condition that says that the social gathering area will be a common area in the POA.
Connected City
Yes.
Barbara Wilhite
That's the condition you want us to add.
Connected City
Correct. Yes. As Ms Wallheit stated on record. So so that plus the uh restriction of the pawn shop as Mr. Moody requested. Second your motion.
GreyChair
All right, and we have a second for purposes of discussion. Is there any other discussion? And now Chris, you were Concerned about the school. Well that was overall connected city, but not. You have a satisfactory answer to that.
GirardiVice Chair
Chris actually doesn't vote on this. Yeah, I don't.
No, there's lots of school kids live in on hotels I pass on my way. We don't care what Chris thinks about this one. We don't. The commercial project. I like Chris. Thank
Unidentified speaker
you, Chuck. With all due respect, Chris. Yes, I understand. Okay. No, I wasn't planning on voting. Okay. Then I'll talk to the other Chris.
Connected City
Thank you for checking. Then we care.
GreyChair
All right, so we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion on the motion?
If not, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, like signed. All right, motion carries with those uh modifications.
All right. Thank you.
And uh as you heard, feel free to contact Barbara, people in the community, and she'd be more than happy to meet with you and go over any questions that you may have and listen to any suggestions that you may have.
So this is a good time to make your feelings known. Just she's right there while you can get to her.
All
GirardiVice Chair
right.
Okay, what's next? Clark, are you okay with them handling seven and eight together?
GreyChair
That's me to be separate.
GirardiVice Chair
You want them separate? Okay.
3Mar 10, 2026
Board of County CommissionersP53Public hearingContinued
Zoning Amendment (Continuance) - — Kenton Road Commercial MPUD … on Approximately 9.43 Acres.
Approved minutes
Approved to continue to the April 7, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Dade City.
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Starkey
Aye. Okay. Item P fifty three. Approved for publication, Tampa Bay Times, January 21st, 2025.
Amy Heiler
Item P53 is a zoning amendment in the name of Kenton Road Commercial MPUD, Kenton Road Commercial LLC. It's a rezoning request from AC Agricultural to MPUD Master Plan Unit Development District to allow for the development of 110,000 square feet of non-residential entitlements and a hundred and twenty-room hotel with associated infrastructure. This comes with you, it comes to you with a continuance report. to April seventh, twenty twenty six at one thirty in Dade City. Move to approve. Second.
MarianoChair
Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.
4Apr 7, 2026
GeneralP57Public hearingApproved
Zoning Amendment ~~(Continuance)~~ (Regular) - Kenton Road Commercial … Area of Connected City - on Approximately 9.43 Acres.
Approved minutes
Approved Staff’s recommendation to include language in the MPUD conditions that require architectural materials in color palate with Commissioner Weightman absent from the vote.
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