Petition to Vacate a Portion of a Platted Ingress/Egress and Utility Easement (Regular) – Shooting Star Court, Lots 41 and 42, New Port Richey – Sunfield Homes, Inc. and Orsi Development, Inc.
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
OutcomeApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jan 28, 2025
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jan 28, 2025
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- Jan 28, 2025BoardP43▶Approvedthis item
What was said
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P forty three, we have proof of publication in the Tampa Bay Times January first, twenty twenty-five, and January eighth, twenty twenty-five.
Good afternoon. Joanne Ravita Real Property Division. The Real Property team has received a petition to vacate a portion of a platted ingress-egress easement, a utility easement, and the rear lot lines of lots 41 and 42 of Shooting Star Court by Sunfield Homes and Orsi Development. The purpose of the vacation is to enable the petitioners to create buildable lots for future residential construction. There were no objections to this petition and the team recommends approval.
Okay, this is my district. This actually no one spoke to me about this one. Um what is the land behind there? It's owned by both developers.
Well
that both of those developers, same family. But what what
is
it?
Um it's my understanding is that it is just currently vacant land that they were going to develop. But they realized that they could not develop it, so they wanted to remove the ingress egress easement so that they could develop the two residential lots in the front.
Well um I'm just wondering is that is that land can you pull up the map? Yes. Is that is there any up is there any value to keep access to that land? Could it become a park or s anything like that?
I'm not sure if you're a person of that. I'm hoping that there might be representatives of the easy.
Just curious. Yeah. I'm looking at the map, but it's not a little bit more than a little bit. My It's not so hot here. My pap.
Name and address for the record, please.
Patricia Buck. Uh Orsi Development, Sunfield Homes, 9040, Trifon. Boulevard A one oh four, Trinity. And I have been sworn in.
Thank you.
Um the land in originally when we platted this in 2002, we retained the tract in the back for future development. That's what it shows on the plat. I have um a bigger drawing if that helps any. Um so we still own that parcel and we also own parcels or a lot. Uh forty-one and forty-two. Originally we tried to do some development plans and they were opposed not only by the HOA but also by the
county. So at this point,
on those two lots? How can they No not on the lots,
on
the land in the back. And can we see a different view of this so we can get the context of what's around
it?
Um there's anything. I it's a drawing that if you look at the ping area from
Can you switch that are you switching that to Google Earth or or Pasco Mapper or something? Probably Pasco Mapper is better. And I know that uh is this the land that you approached us to maybe see if we would could get it along the river? Yeah. Yeah.
He's not here, is he?
So if you if you look at the pink area, that's the um track 20. That was the future development tract. And what we've done is we've basically split it in half and attached it to lot 41 and lot 42. So Our goal is to sell those two platted lots, but right now the easement between the lots, instead of having a s a seven and a half foot side yard setback, you have a 17 and a half. So with a pie
lot you've got almost no building pad. Yeah. So because we can't use the back, all we're trying to do is make the units that are there more buildable. Oh that's a good thing. anymore.
All right. So that this doesn't back up to the This is in a different place than I was thinking. Um can you can you zoom out? So there's no upland. No, it's also
it's all in the floodplain. Yeah. All right. And the reason why I showed you the green area, um, because as you can see, each of those green tracks are HOA tracks, and the green going between the lots is the access to the green tracks as platted. So this particular easement doesn't have anything to do with the HOA. It was something that we were required to do. During Plat in order to have access, ingress, egress, and utilities for the future development, which
as I said is no longer happening.
There was a time when um I know when this used to be our property. Yes. There there was a hope that somewhere this would connect back to Starkey Boulevard instead of everyone going up, you You know, there's only one one exit. Although I I do hope to connect Amazon and Anaconda. David Engel, that's the piece I was showing you right there? There's a little spite strip there from uh left over that now I think we might own it now and we can do that connection. Um So
I you know there's no useful land behind there and no reason to not approve this. I would ex entertain a motionless question? Yeah.
Yeah, just a question. Um so the area that's marked pink on I guess those are lots. You're not going to build on those two lots?
No.
We still own those.
Right.
And the pink tract is now basically divided in half. Half of it goes with 41 and half of it goes with 42. You you can't see that on there. But you can see that right where the easement is, if you continue to draw the line straight where it hits the top of the page, that's pretty much where it's at.
So
So the easement's no longer needed.
Okay. I thought you said something about electric and Sewer and all hookup, is that a hookup? Can that be done with that project for this property here?
Um the water and sewer were built with the original project. They're at the front lot line in the utility easement for forty one and forty two. There's two stub outs, one for each lot.
Yeah. So you'll connect those for these lots behind?
Well there is no lot in behind. It's just the land behind will go with the lot in the front.
So um what's been ha have people been trespassing back there on your property? 'Cause I see
What do you
think? Oh yeah. I bet I could see those little guys on those motorcycles back there if I look real close that
Well and uh this will help that. Once we get the two lots in the front with real houses built there and somebody owns the land land in the back, uh you won't have that.
Yeah. Basically that part in the pink Not Buildable.
I'm not talking about the lots. There's a little bit of high
and dry, but it's gonna go with the lots. Right. So they'll have a
but they won't build back there.
They can build an ABU back there. They can build residential
back there.
Correct. They can put an A B U back there.
Yeah. That's pretty good for those lots too.
Yeah. We have some lots like that in Aristida that happened to go way back um just because of the way the layout was. So um
Yeah, that's good.
Okay, is there anyone else in the public that wishes to speak to this?
Thank you, second. All in favor?
Aye. Opposed. Okay. Thank you. Okay.