Zoning Amendment (Regular) – Kasting LLC/Little Road Rezoning – Change in Zoning from a PO-2 Professional Office District to a C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District – West Central Pasco County – Northeast Corner of the Intersection of Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard – Containing Approximately 3.03 acres.
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved as part of the Public Hearing Consent Agenda.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jun 17, 2025
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jun 17, 2025
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This case, across meetings
PDE-25-7868 in full →PDE-25-7868 was taken up 2 times between May 15, 2025 and Jun 17, 2025 — this is appearance 2.
- May 15, 2025PlanningPC4▶No disposition in the minutes
- Jun 17, 2025BoardP69▶Approvedthis item
What was said
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sixty-nine. Alright, P-69 was advertised in the Tampa Bay Times april 30, 2025, and by affidavit of certified mailings and site postings.
Item P sixty-nine is PDE 257868. This is a zoning amendment in the name of Casting LLC. Little Road rezoning. Change in zoning from a PO2 professional office district to a C1 neighborhood commercial district in west central Pasco County, northeast corner of the intersection of Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard. On approximately 3.03 acres, and Amy Tull, Assistant Director of Planning Services, will make the presentation.
Good afternoon, Amy Toll with Planning and Development. So today before you is a zoning, a Euclidean zoning amendment. The request is to change from PO2 professional office district to C1 neighborhood commercial district. The existing future land use is currently Calm Flu. The Calm Flu was recently adopted on December 10th, 2024. The purpose of this is to change the zoning
district from PO2 to C1 neighborhood commercial district. And it is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard. So as you can see, this is the subject site location. It is within the embassy district of the West Market area and urban concentration area.
Here's a context map just to highlight some of the uses in proximity. We do have the school of Christian Academy to the north. It is at the intersection of Jasmine Boulevard and Little Road. Here's just a zoomed in aerial version.
The future land use is currently calm. The subject site is surrounded by Res One and Res VI.
Uh current zoning is PO2. There is a state residential to the north and east, existing PO2 to the south and C1 to the west.
So a little uh project overview. So the subject site is, as previously stated, three point oh three acres. Access from the property is from Little Road, uh County Maintain Arterial Roadway, um and Jasmine Boulevard, a County Maintain Collector Roadway. There is a conceptually trans Uh conceptually planned trail, excuse me, tongue-tied, uh segment under the name of Little Road Trail, located on the west side of Little Road. Um, there is no priority in the capital improvement for this segment. And uh
the applicant has volunteered a deed restriction to restrict uh three uses being a um uh excuse me uh Uh self-storage or not self-storage facil facility. I just had this. Uh sorry, gas station car wash and self-storage facility. Um this was all part of the action that occurred in December to align with the sub-area policy that was implemented on the calm flu. And with that, we recommend approval of the
requested rezoning amendment from the Planning Commission and Planning Development and Economic Growth. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.
What
did you say was behind that parcel? Um, behind north, south, east, west. North.
Is currently a state residential. That is um a project that is currently under review. You actually just approved a continuance, the Little Road P D and M Puty. That was a mixed use project that's has some stormwater mitigation they have to figure out.
So this rezoning is for that project.
Uh no, this rezoning is south of that. Oh in a butt set, yeah. Okay. So this is just for C two C one, excuse me, neighborhood commercial. Yeah.
Why are the parcels looking kinda wonky there? What's the green line to the left of PO two?
Uh w to which PO two?
To the west. To the west. Okay, I
see
Little Road. Is that just your lines are not lined up or
Yeah, those are just the parcels, how the parcels are actually delineated.
So that's our parcel lines.
It looked like that's a right-of-way corridor.
Yeah, I don't
I think
that's a good idea.
It it does appear that as Yeah. So this is the parcel.
Yeah.
Static
to the left of that pink parcel? Can
you go back to that one?
Yeah.
This one?
Mm-hmm.
Are those lines right?
Yes.
Interesting.
If you go back to the blue button.
The flu.
It looks like cloning I'm sorry.
It's right away.
This map is simply showing how the zoning districts are flowing through, if you will, the right-of-way parcels as well.
Okay.
All right. Um you have some. I don't need a presentation. But does an do any other board members want more of a presentation? No than this from the aquatown. Do you have someone signed up? Okay. It looks like the applicant wants to speak.
I think she's way good.
And then do we have other people sign up?
Good afternoon, Cindy Terrapani. I'm the authorized representative for the applicant. I don't need to speak, much as I'm happy to hear be here with you guys. I don't need to speak. Um if there are anyone who's gonna speak in opposition, I would like to have some time for rebuttal if that's correct.
So I don't know if they're for or against, but if you want to wait, you can always come back to the
right-of-way. All
right,
is there anyone here to speak to this issue? Well before uh Alan Rose is signed up. So Alan you can be first. And is there anyone else here besides Alan
that wants to speak to this? Just raise your hand. No.
Move the re receiving file. Second.
All in favor? Aye.
Aye. Yeah.
Mr. Rose, if you'll just give your name and address for the record. Yes.
Alan Rose, [address removed]. This has been a continuing thing. We've been working at this for a long time and Things keep being brought forward so I thought I'd bring you the full picture. Within one block radius of this parcel, there are thirty homesteads, all one acre or more. Many of them are equestrian, Or farms, this does not is not consistent with the neighborhood. I give you 20, they're all listed there,
Osceola Heights, Colonel Acres. I can go to the other side of the block and give you another 20, all with one acre or more. These are a state residential neighborhood. It's a beautiful neighborhood. There is no commercial.
Jasmine. From Lake Hugh. Due west three miles. You will not find a commercial parcel. You would not find a commercial parcel for three miles. You can then take a From Grove Street on Little Road, Grove Street northbound, four miles. The only place you're gonna find a commercial is where 52 intersects little. There are n this commercial. They represent that there's all kinds of commercial around. Not in this location. This is our neighborhood. It is a residential neighborhood. And We've
lost everything else, but I want to keep as long as it keeps coming up and we're gonna keep bringing it forward to you. This is not consistent with the neighborhood. And when I'm up here speaking to you, I am speaking representing approximately two hundred residents. That have all signed my petitions. You've seen the petitions come your way. I make sure you see it. The community does not want to see commercial development here.
That's up. Thank you.
Is there anyone else who wishes to speak to this? Right, isn't this zoned office already? I mean this is it has
commercial zoning today.
Yes, it has zoning to uh nope, sorry Ellen.
These people who have just moved up. Was there someone
else who wanted to speak?
Do you want to speak to this item?
I
Okay.
All right.
No, no, no.
Then
you
need to get up and sp and feature them if that's what you want to do.
And when you come to the podium, just give your name and address for the record and then
you
have three minutes.
Judy Armstrong, [address removed]. Okay. That's just that uh just like Alan said, it is all residential around there. It's right next to residential. It's residential across the street. I mean How do you get around trying to say it's commercial? And our our deed work shows that it's supposed to stay that way, you know, so why do you think you should change it and if it was your subdivision you wouldn't like it. So please don't do
it to ours. We didn't a we you know, we shouldn't have to be coming in here and guarding our neighborhood from people who are encroaching on it in a in a dishonest manner it seems like. It is residential. I mean it's really residential. It's a it's a bird sanctuary for crying out loud. And so you wanna bring more people in to run over more of our sandhill cranes and and all the other animals and all the turtles and all those things that cross the
road that you have to get out for and move to protect them. Um something's wrong. It just shouldn't happen. So thank you. Jeff
did Thank you. Did she need to be sworn in?
Oh. Okay. Yeah.
She lives two miles away here.
Good afternoon, Cindy Terrapani, Tarp Terrapani Planning Strategies 128 East Tarpon Avenue, Tarpon Springs. I am the authorized representative for the Castang LLC, who is the property owner, not the applicant, app also the applicant, but the property owner. The Castangs bought this property about a year and a half ago. It had um three uh dilapidated homes that were being used as a homeless camp. They demolished the homes. Worked with the uh your Sheriff's Department to move the homeless off the property. They've cleaned up the property substantially,
and they come to you with this plan amendment which you approved unanimously in December last year, with the sub-area uh special area plan policies that we restrict the uses. We have done those restrictions through a deed restriction, which is before you today, and we are committed to that. That deed restriction states that These these are the prohibited uses. We cannot have a car wash, a gas station, or self-storage, or any of the live local uh requirements. So I that in in previous hearings those were the main objections both by uh the
this commission, by the planning commission, and by the folks who spoke. We've only had a couple of people speak throughout this hearing, Mr. Rose being uh one of them. One quick comment about the deed restrictions. Mr. Rose keeps talking about the deed restrictions, and you all are well aware that that's a private matter between the property owners. But furthermore, my client uh requested a title commitment from his title company from a national company, and that those deed restrictions did not pull up in that title policy. So we don't believe that this property is subject to them. Back to the land use
issues. Um this property is at the a signalized intersection of two major roads. Jasmine Boulevard is an arterial. Little Road, as you all know, is a collector. I just um just a couple of comments that the Planning Commission made when they also recommended it unanimously. They recognize that when R Little Road was put in the area was changed. Mr Grace said that He further said that no one's building homes on Little Road. And it was recognized that it really can't go back to residential. It does have a commercial plan category today, so the
only really uses that we could put on it would be commercial uses. We're committed to the C1 and we requested C one with the deed restrictions that are before you today. Um I would just respectfully request your approval. I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have.
Um
My my question is for staff. Sure.
Okay. Is our gas is the gas station allowed here? No ma'am. It's
prohibited. That's one of the the four there's four prohibited uses. Gas station, car wash, self storage, and live local. And that's in the deed restriction that's uh on the
agenda today. Well I always think the chair should go last. I want to see what comments my Fellow board members have here. D do you have any questions for
staff. For our s our staff.
Yeah, m mine could be for either. Yeah.
So stay
stay
nearby. So again, this this parcel's not part of the Golden Acres. Community, correct?
Correct.
From hard findings that
well first of all the the it is a replat of a part of Golden Acres as a legal description, yes. Um it is not part of the Golden Acres residential community. As I mentioned, my client uh requested a title commitment and that National Title Company did not pull those deed restrictions up as a restriction on the property. So we don't believe that the deed restrictions that Mr. Rose continues to talk about apply to our property. Even if they did, which we don't believe they do. That, as you all know very well, is a private matter between us and the other property
owners. So the short answer to your question, Mr. Whiteman, is no, we do not believe it is part of Golden Acres, except that it was a replat of a plat named Golden Acres, but it's not part of the residential community. Amy?
I agree with that. So through our due diligence, um we actually did review the plat that was submitted as part of the legal description for this property and it does not fall within the golden acres that they are subject to. Golden Acres Residential. Correct.
And those are
two
and Golden Acres residential is a separate
Correct. The plat that was um previously identified uh through the uh budding residents, that plat does not show these parcels as part of that plat.
Okay, um my
question is there just seems to be contradictory. Look uh I appreciate the advocacy by the the residents for the both projects here. This is a good idea. Clearly a a major roadway. Now. I mean you To hold T to to hold properties hostage. It's just a little bit more than a little bit.
Not But whether by the county or people who don't own them. That's just That's just a a tough a tough way to to do things. Um If this is not if you're saying you have customers saying that it is part of it, and you're saying it's not I think I think I think there needs to be Uh maybe there's just an impasse between What we know is fact and what the residents believe they know is fact.
Um On the project to the the north of it, right? Yeah, to the north of it, then the south and then depending on I don't know what's going to go on the the southeast corner of of of Jasmine and uh little there. I think there was a house there that was demolished at some point in time. But today it stands is there are commercial uses, there's commercial zoning on these three parcels, correct?
PO2, so office.
So the intensity the way I understood it is the intensity of uses is is virtually the same?
Correct.
Madam Chairman Mariano.
Yeah.
if this helps. So on December tenth of twenty four You change the future land use designation of these parcels to commercial. And now we're switching them to commercial. As a future land use, and now you're making the zoning consistent with what you did in December.
Correct. And the zone and at that public hearing um the action was to at l to control the zoning district to C1, so it's more of a neighborhood scale, lower intensity than your C2 district would allow.
So now we're in a position of if it's anything other than that, we'd be in trouble for The down down zoning. Yeah, well.
you
shouldn't have changed
the
future
of
the
right-of-way.
it's Gain to step up now it's kinda locked in.
Correct. Yeah, it's it's a calm flu now, so any zoning action would be required to be consistent with that commercial future land use.
Are you able to tell us what the use is potentially gonna be on this site? Medical office or something?
I I wish I would, um Commissioner. Um my client has does not have anything under contract at this point to sell it to, um so we d we just do not know what the potential uses would be. Medical office is one, professional office would be allowed. Um general retail would be allowed in the C one, but again, those four uses that are in the deed restriction would never be allowed, car wash, uh, self-storage, and gas station and live local.
So somebody explain to me. Amy, it's back on your your side of of things.
What the why is there why the disconnect between What we're being being told by professional staff and then what the residents are believing that it is part of the Golden Acres Plat.
Sure. Um we have continued conversations with them since the Comp Plan amendment was being proposed, and that's when staff did their due diligence to confirm where the subject site is located. So we pulled the property appraiser cards, ran the legal descriptions and the plats that were associated to those, and the plat that was subject to the golden acres phase of the residential community, that plat specifically does not identify these parcels as part
of that plat, and the legal description does not support that as well.
A a picture outline of what's in the Golden Acres Plat and what's not?
We if you give us a minute we could find it. I could pull it up.
Yeah.
Unfinished porch. I'm finished garage.
Is that when you're
Mm-hmm.
And I ask for this because there are multiple. parcels along the little road that I think are going to add conflict between residents and what this the decisions this board has to make. So for future. knowledge. What does this little? Yeah. That's a C B S. Jasmine, that's C B S.
On our CVS right there.
Maybe.
She's gonna scan it in so she actually has the plat that is currently um being discussed from the residents and then the replat as well. So you'll see that it's not.
I just I I guess I'm just looking for comfort in the clear legalese on the record. from you all to us about what is Golden Acres Plat. And then what is neighboring to go the Golden Acres is in Chaplatt. Check it out.
Um, I have a question for you. Um actually it might be for for the applicant. I just depending on what happens to the north, I want to make sure there's some kind of connectivity that's in our rules, right?
Yeah, so um actually this has been a proactive approach with the county in both Applicants with the Little Road project that you're reviewing today, the rezoning and the Little Road PDM PewDieP. There is connectivity between both the commercial area and actual connectivity pedestrian and vehicular to ensure that we kind of planned both projects as if they were one. There's supposed to be more of a unified connection
between the two that are occurring between the conditions of approval. Because
there's there's an opportunity here with the size of this property and the and the property to the north to make some
entertainment area for the community. Um something special rather than just a strip mall that is Vanilla Blah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um And is that is the trail I mean we we have reservation for I know we don't have the money, but we have the reservation for a multi-use trail along the side correct of Little.
And that's all set forth in that MPUD of the butting to the north, or at least proposed to be. So I I personally
think um that it's not part of the residential part of the community and that If if w if we do it right it could be an asset to the
what what we're trying to what I'm trying to do, I want to make sure Mr. Rose and everybody he's representing, and we know there's a whole bunch of people, that everybody has is singing from the same script. of music. That way there's no disconnect. Everybody's looking at the same documents. We're basing the decisions off of the documents that we see they're looking out for the community and they know the history of the documents. We're basing our decisions on and everybody has the same Information. All right.
I saw those when I had my meeting, they showed me the documents, but
it's been that's been a while. I'm looking for a re okay a refresher. All right, so
they're doing some research here?
So the to answer the commissioner's question, this is Golden Acres Unit One, which you're seeing. Now keep in mind that Little Road didn't extend this far north. So when this was platted, I believe 1978. So here's Golden Acres. is to like just off that plat just a little bit. So and the other reason I've highlighted the yellow is I just highlighted the streets just to give my you know just to orient myself. It's a little again like a little tricky to say because Little Road
does not exist this far north when this was platted. Now if you go to the second page this is the property that is the rezoning case. It's all of this property all four lots It's a replat. a part of the original Golden Acres, but again it's not in this original plat. that had the deed restrictions. And again, my client has a title company who has issued a title policy that states that does not include those deed restrictions as one of the ex as one of the requirements. So we do not believe we're subject to that. I
would also say that after the December meeting um with the at the Plan Amendment before you all in December in twenty twenty four. We w uh my client and I spoke to Mr. Rose after the meeting. I committed to him that I would call him and email him when with when our uh public hearing was scheduled for the rezoning He seemed fine with the deed restrictions as we again we talked about at that at y'all's hearing in December. He seemed fine with it, so I was kind of mystified when he showed up because I did send him a letter and I did tell him about the hearing before any notice went out. And also, Mr.
Rose is not with anywhere near the notice area. He's about a mile and a half away on Hilltop, which is the next road east of this site, next road that the next north-south road. Road east of of Little Road. So while I appreciate his um activity and his a and his advocacy, um he I I'm not really I don't quite understand how he would be affected. Um we are going to be
it's not there's a there's a a a neighboring parcel that's up For review. Yeah, a whole bunch of people came out. Mr. Rogers, he advocates for different things on our coast and everything else so I think he has a little bit of credibility on what what he represents in the community he represents. So Amy
You say you believe you you believe that there's not the deed restriction on there. It's a black and white issue for me. Are there the Golden Acres deed restrictions, residential deed restrictions on these parcels or not? It's a it's yes or no. I don't want to believe we believe it's either they were there or
they're not. The title company paid for title policy issued to my client says they are not.
They are not.
And they are the as far as I'm concerned, they're much more of an expert than I would be. That's a title company. They do the research, as you all know. Um, we have that title policy. If you want me to enter it in record, I would. It does not list the deed restrictions that Mr. Rose and these folks are are discussing, does not list that as an exception to the title policy.
Okay. I think it's a good thing. Because this keeps coming up, Chair, should we add that title policy into the record because we keep having these This is such an old project from decades and decades ago. County Attorney, should we add that type of level of detail? into the record for these as these older communities evolve. Ms.
Madam Chairman M Commissioner, I
Whether or not there are deed restrictions is really irrelevant to your zoning decision. And as I said before, I think when you when you made the change in December, you set the zoning that this parcel was going going to be having in the future.
Mm-hmm.
If if there if there are deed restrictions and that then it's a civil action between the property owners. But There's been nothing shown And I you know, I Trust. Planning departments, reviews.
Over decision that we made, like unintentional consequences, I guess is what I'm saying. That's that's what I want to do. Well the civil
action would likely be between the property o this property owner and this board. Well.
Um I have a question. Um I notice well first of all I don't know what a replat is. Um so I don't know the significance of that. One. Two um I replatt
is when you when you plat over something that has already been platted once. What year did that have been?
Why d d why did they do that? Did they divide it into four lots or I don't know what why would someone do that? Just curious.
Under modern theory. Not having gone back and looked at the seventies This says the portion of a tract three, which then means that they were carving up lots from a tract, which is a larger section of the flat.
All right, and so see I notice on the right that l that long narrow strip, which is that a Right away. An easement? Uh what is that?
Um it is not a right away. I believe it's a it's an easement. I think if I'm reading it, I think it's thirty foot drainage easement, Amy. What's that shell song?
Uh yes, it reads uh thirty foot drainage utility and private ingress and egress easement. So it's accessed. Whose
whose district is this?
Mine. Ingress and private ingress and egress. Okay. So then I noticed that um the lot to the north also had that road. Um that that that project had eroded also that he is vacating, an easement or whatever you want to call it. So to me these parcels were separated Potentially by a road.
Back on. I don't know. Well
I understand.
Yeah. Yeah. And that one was actually so that one is perpendicular to what was on the image.
Right. So these are kind of like partioned off access. So I feel even stronger in your position. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, because the project to the north was essentially like a flag lot. that had a potential access which I believe that applicant has an agreement to try to dedicate to that community.
Chairman
All kinds of illegal stuff going on on these lots too, I hate to say.
Yeah. I I don't know. I I like to make Obviously w we don't know what the future is of this project in the lot in the section to the north of it. I'd like well, they're two different owners. Because whatever decision needs to be made, they need to be consistent and complementary of each other. I agree with that.
I would just put out there as well as a reminder, so in December when we did execute the comp plan amendment with the sub-area policy, the sub area policy restricted the zoning district to C one. So that's the option for the zoning matter here. If there would be a change, um then you would have to come back in
for a comment. I'm not so sure of the f what the what the what the fate of the project is to the north of it.
Correct.
Yeah. I I'd like to have a better understanding of where that's gonna land before Before this. because depending on what happens to it they I think they need to be complimentary and complimentary in the neighborhood. So I don't know. My my my my instinct right now is until we get an update on what happens to the north of it. is to continue this. I I think we need to see a bigger picture plan for for what's going on here.
I'll support that too. Mr.
Yeager? Yeah.
With all due respect, we've been in this process more than a year and a half. totally separate owners. We are as I understand from um from Amy that there is gonna be a requirement that the property to the north, because it is an M P D be required to stub out. We will accept that stub out and that connection through our property. They might want to come down and get to the light, but This is our own case. We're standing on our own two feet. We'd respectfully request that we get approved today and then whatever connection needs to be made. We're we're a Euclidean project. We don't ha you don't have any ability to impose
that on us, but we're agreeing to do it. We will accept their road coming through. We obviously want to coordinate with them where it goes. But They they need to stand on their own and we need to stand on our own and we've Like I said, we've been in this process over a year and a half. My client cannot move forward. He can't get any users for the property. He's standing still, paying a mortgage. And now I'm dependent on some other case?
No. No, I appreciate your advocacy. But uh these are definitely two complimentary parcels of what's going on here. And um I haven't had an update from from staff or anybody on what's going on to the north and what's this. I mean look Things are moving in. We're talking about views view sheds earlier. You heard a debate over over over the views of boatshed covers and areas we represent. We got people who are upset because they're losing views of their pasture. Life is changing in Pasco. And these infill
projects are not a good idea. on major roadways are going to have an impact and change life on people a little bit. So the decisions as we come in and do these these infill projects come through, we got one shot at making sure the decision is the best decision we make for the neighborhood and for the betterment of our county. So a few more weeks I think is appropriate because I'd like to get an update from staff on what's going on to the project. to the north of it. So I'd I'd like to continue this um for another couple of weeks until I get an update from Whoever needs to come comes come
see us. And Mr. Rose, if you and your folks wanna wanna call our office that way we can understand better from your
So Mr. D they They have have zoning approval already.
Have future land use.
Future land use.
Okay, we're allowed to continue it.
This is your district. You think someone can build a house
on
that corner?
Does this match our future land use map? Yes. So the rezoning would match it. Correct. Then I'm okay with it.
And again, there's a sub-area policy attached to the comp plan, so the future land use, which means they're limited to C1 with restricted uses only.
I take a motion.
Um
I
I'll move to approve.
Direct.
All in favor?
Aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye.
All right.