Zoning Amendment (Regular) – Ranch Hill MPUD Master Planned Unit Development – Alfred T. Smith – A Rezoning Request from an A-C (Agricultural) Zoning District to an MPUD Master Planned Unit Development District to Allow a Maximum of 350 Multi-family Apartment Units on 23.16 Acres (Board of County Commissioners (BCC): 8/24/21; 1:30 p.m.; NPR)

31:00Yeah. Item P ninety two was published in the Tampay Times on June thirtieth, twenty twenty-one.

31:06Good afternoon, everybody. This is Tammy Snyder from Planning and Development. I present to you Ranch Hill M PUD, PDD 217534. Um Yeah. Applicant is Alfred T. Smith through rezoning from AC to NPD to allow 350 multifamily apartment units on approximately 23.16 acres. And the location map and the current zoning districts you can see it's just on the south of State Road fifty two and to the west of Old Pasco

31:36Road. A hidden next one. And there's future land use. Next slide.

31:45Proposed is a rezoning request from AC Agricultural Zoning District to an MPUD to allow maximum of three hundred and fifty multifamily apartment units on approximately twenty-three points. They're also requesting a variation on-site parking, LDC 907.1. They want to reduce the required number of parking spaces from 2.25 spaces to 1.9 spaces, consent consistent with other similar project approvals in the area.

32:13And here is their master plan. They are showing an interconnect to the south. They're showing an interconnect to the Orange Belt Trail to the north, which will be constructed once the trail is. And there's They're um they have one access out onto Old Pasco Road. Next slide. The subject parcel currently reflects its original zoning district of AC and it contains approximately 23.16 acres of pasture land, a residence, and some outbuildings. The Orange Belt Trail is planned to be constructed

32:43by the county within the property abutting the subject property to the north. And then once it's constructed, the subject property will construct a bike pedestrian access to the Orange Belt Trail. The Mango Hills and PUD abuts the subject property on the west and south. It received approval for a maximum of 415 single-family detached and attached townhome units. And the properties to the north and northeast of the subject parcel abutting State Road 52 are zone C2 and I L, Light Industrial, and ROR

33:14Land Use. Uses. Apartments are a logical transition or step down from general commercial and industrial uses to the residential uses. The LDC specifies that variations from this code may be reviewed and approved by the Planning Commission and the BCC during the public hearing for an MPUD. The applicant is seeking the parking requirement variation as noted previously. And the proposed request is consistent with the PASCO LDC and the applicable provisions of the PASCO County Comprehensive Plan. And with that, the PDD recommends

33:44approval with conditions.

33:47Okay. Uh Ms. Wellheit speak to this item?

34:00Barbara Wilhite, 6327 Grand Boulevard, New Port Richey Florida, 34652 for the applicant. Um we come with a unanimous recommendation by Planning Commission and staff And I'm not sure if anybody signed up. Um I have a presentation, happy to make my presentation. Um but it might make sense to see if anybody's signed up and wants to speak and then I can

34:20Does anyone sign up for the side?

34:21No one signed up and no one on WebEx.

34:23Okay. No one sign up, no one on WebX.

34:29Um thank you. I am happy to make a presentation.

34:32You might want to call and see if there's there's

34:35comment out there. Is there anyone here would like to speak to this item?

34:40This is a public meeting, so seeing no one?

34:46Okay. Well I will have our book and it's beautiful. Thank you.

34:54We with that my client would uh ask for support

34:58just a question. Barbara the turn lanes coming in and out From uh fifty two on Old Pasco Road.

35:04Our access is Mont Pasco. We don't have frontage on 52. The commercial and non-residential has frontage on 52. But we are coordinating our access with the Mango Hills project to the south so that there's coordinated access because we're both neighbors. And so we'll be doing that with the site plan review.

35:22Um just a suggestion. Um seeing I don't Where you have your pedestrian access, is that a what is that green area right there? My my contacts aren't working so well today. Where the pedestrian access is going to the Orange Belt Trail?

35:40Can't actually read that myself. Uh it's uh it's in the apartment. This it's in this corner of

35:45the project. Right. And this I can't tell what it says underneath it. But but but but here's what what I wanna say and it's something that I've talked to uh Mr. Power. and others and we're gonna talk about it again tonight at the B PAC meeting and that is um One of the things we want to make sure we do is a is have the opportunity for Um entrepreneurship. along the Orange Belt Trail for people to come in and put

36:15in a little coffee shop, an ice cream shop. You know, something that benefits and would be a fun place to go to if you're using the trail. So I would hope that you might carve out a little piece here. Could be one of your residents that wants to run a coffee shop or a bake shop or something. adjacent to that trail and I'd I I'd love to see it as a trail user. So be thinking creatively about a retail or you know, small commercial

36:45experience next to that trail.

36:47We can certainly do that. What what makes this project fit so nicely in this location is that all along 52 is non-residential. So those uses can go on the north side of the trail along 52. Um and it'll buffer your trail from 52 as well as being able to have those serving uses. So I think between what we might be able to do in the future and and the fact that there is non-residential already zoned up there, I think that'll fit what you w would like to achieve.

37:13Yeah, but you could put the uses in ice cream shop, coffee shop, lemonade stand, whatever. If you're within twenty, fifty, a hundred feet of the trail, whatever the right determination is, I don't know what that is, you can do it. And it it's just a great benefit and a really cool thing to have. along the perimeters of the trail. Especially that trail.

37:37Yeah.

37:39And I agree with those sentiments. I mean you the way Longleaf is set up with the Starkey Trail right there, it's a great little spot downtown. You can stop in the morning get coffee or even in the afternoon to get something or even dinner. So I think it's it would be it would add a lot.

37:50And I I hear from people all the time that we don't have enough amenities along our trails. Once you leave the Starkey market and Longleaf you go all the way to Hernando County before you can ha buy a drink along, you know or an ice cream or anything along our trail. So I just want to really encourage Some uh little entrepreneurship. Along the trails. Thank you. Okay. With that I move approval.

38:18Second.

38:18Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion pass five zero. Thank you.

38:25Thank you.

38:26Move on to P ninety three.