Petition to Vacate Platted Right-of-Way and Utility Easement (Regular) – Compass Land USA Fund 1 LP – Old Moon Lake Road, New Port Richey – No Funding Required
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionContinued
Approved to continue to the January 20, 2026 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in New Port Richey.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
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This case, across meetings
FAC-26-0004 in full →FAC-26-0004 was taken up 2 times between Dec 9, 2025 and Jan 20, 2026, continued 1 time — this is appearance 1.
- Dec 9, 2025BoardP89▶Continuedthis item
- Jan 20, 2026BoardP41▶Approved
What was said
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P eighty nine, proof of publication, Tampa Bay Times, November 9, 2025, and November 16, 2025.
Good afternoon, Joanne Rivita, Real Property Division. Sorry.
The real property team has received a petition to vacate a portion of an undeveloped plated right-of-way and utility easement filed by Compass Land USA Fund 1 LP. The purpose of the vacation is to allow for the lots to be combined for future development. There were no objections to this petition. The team recommends approval.
Compass land owns the property on the front?
Cr uh it owns the property.
Apologies.
It owns the property to the east of the right of way.
Can you put the map up please?
Yeah, she stays.
They own all of the lots. They also own the tract behind the lots, tract A.
Trans. Block two oh nine.
You said track A. Uh
you can't see it. It's behind it's the area to the right of the utility easement.
So are these
Commissioner Starkey.
Are these zone mobile home lots? What are these? Honestly, I don't know what they resumed. Well how how do you access any of this property? I mean we're taking out the road that accesses the property?
It it is an undeveloped road. You can see that there's a roadway behind it that they'll have access from.
Yeah. Access Gilbert Street.
Yes, if that's if that's the road I can't see it from here. If that's the roadway to the east of Tract A, yes, that is the access point.
So with a writ the one you just you just flipped by. Yeah. Put that one back.
Yeah.
No, put the one up that that's within their agenda package please.
No, one more. That one.
Yes. So
they'll be accessing Gilbert Street to Ember or Haddon to get
up to
Moon Lake.
Yes.
Alright who owns the land? to the left thick line all the way down to Haddon.
I believe actually Pasco County. Could you could is it possible to pull that up?
Are you going to Pasco Mapper over there? Yeah. Thank you. I'm trying to get it up over here.
I'm not sure I wanna give anything up.
Uh go up into the west. Do you know other rest?
Shrink it just a bit.
It's it's north of that. It's north of that circle thing. That circle thing is Haddon, right? Yeah.
Um we're gonna check to see who owns that piece.
No, to the le to the left side.
To the left, yeah. Well that's us, right? Yeah. Should be Pasco. Yeah, that's our road.
So we own it. So we've got a road ready to come in, a development right in front of it. I don't think we're owner of it vacated, do we?
to the can you Gina, can you click on the area to the left? Yeah, right there.
And go right beside that?
The n the roadway, not no to the right. To the right-and-down low.
Right, just a little lower. No, you wanna go up too far. The square. J past the square. Toward the road.
I'm looking at the the roadway that was down here, the big red, it stopped part of the way. I'm looking for that part.
That's it. We own it.
Right there.
that.
I know, I'm not sure.
I don't want more.
Yeah, this
is
strange.
The area that they're looking to vacate is an unimproved platted right-of-way. Um transportation and engineering was consulted and the limits of the vacation were adjusted to comply with any future right-of-way needs. For any future why didn't you go with the Moon Lake Road? Huh?
We haven't even built anything there yet.
No.
I mean
I if that development comes in they're all alongside that. I want that road, I want them to put build that road.
What uh do what is the applicant trying to do? And I see the attorneys behind you. Yes.
Why don't why don't we get the presentation from the applicant and see see where their argument is. Oh hang on, Commissioner Oakley just
speaking. Is this property kin to this property we just looked at about the twelve units? No. No.
No.
Nothing to it. Just so happens it's right next door. No, this is a different way. This is Moon
Lake.
The other one's about fifty-two. Oh well The same as that other project we looked at.
When she went to Mapper it started. It had the old because we were on that that graphic, you saw the the mobile ohms.
Right.
Just just because that's what the last thing in Mapper was. So now now we've moved to the area. Okay. All right. That's what that's what I got you.
Would you like to hear from the petitioner's attorney? From
the applicant, yes.
Thank you, Shelley Johnson, 6400 Madison Street, and I have been sworn. Um just to explain what's going on, my client owns lots six through eighteen. Um If you Commissioner Oakley I understand what you're saying too with regards to the the Moon Lake Road right-of-way. This is actually a remnant piece of right-of-way that the it was platted. Um facilities management and and the county and real estate have looked at it. There's nothing that it'll be utilized for. It's not the road's not heading in that direction. You can see it kind of starts, it's going, you
know, obviously to the west. Um they did try to move up. I don't know if you can tell from one of the pictures. They did try to push what they were vacating like a little bit north um of where, you know, it's the closest to Moon Lake Road on that southern side, just to make sure that if there is anything ash extra on that curve that they're gonna need, that they could utilize that. Um but it's it's a remnant right away from a from a plat that is never gonna be used. Um And then they've got the five foot utility easement on the back that like like like West have looked at and there's
nothing that it would ever be used for as well. So it's really just being vacated to be added to the lots to make them larger, nicer lots. That's really cool.
So yeah. I mean we got a whole network that's set up and now we're gonna go get rid of it and change it 'cause What the almost coming to the side. I mean that's a good little layout there.
Yeah, I mean I the only thing I understand is facilities manag oh I'm sorry.
You may say nothing's gonna happen to it, but with development coming in, development may be taking care of that roadway.
I was thinking the same thing.
So yeah, you you can say they just d won't matter, but this is something that was laid out. I think it's a pretty good layout. That could could lead to real good stuff down the road for it. So I'm I don't want to see it chang I don't want to see it taken away. We'll never get it back. And with developers nowadays to try to get stuff done, if you don't have the control of the land, you get nothing.
Exactly.
I mean I would request if there's if there is concern about it. I wasn't I didn't know there was gonna be an issue. Um that we continue it so that we can kind of discuss it a little bit further because I do know that facilities management everybody looked at and they didn't see that there would be any use for it in the future. So
But it's this board's decision whether or not to vacate these properties.
Right.
I I mean they've if they
want if you want to keep that box so that we can see it again. Thank
you.
I mean if you want to bring something back sometime, I'm happy to meet with you on it. I'm sure Commissioner Yeager would be happy to meet with you on it. But at this moment, to just vacate that roadway, I don't I don't want to give up that network network that was laid out. I got areas up in Hudson that have these vision roads that are roads that are laid out that ha haven't been developed yet, but eventually they may come. And until they come out I d I wouldn't take away what was there before.
No, I hear I understand. Yeah, I mean I guess I'll request a continuance so that we can kinda dig into it a little bit more. So I can provide you even more information about, you know, that corner and the engineering on it unfortunately um our engineer, Mr. Moody, is not here today too, because uh he could probably provide a lot of insight into it as as well.
Thank you. When I'm looking at the map, Um that's a giant wetland. Uh so see where Haddon is? So Uh you can s I mean that mo a lot of that property's not even usable. I don't know why we'd give up that road. I I just I mean no one's gonna build on that. They shouldn't be.
Yeah, I mean I think that was kind of the staffs when they looked at it, they felt like it was really it was just a remnant piece that was. Our road looks
good. Yeah. Property looks bad.
Yeah. Yeah. And that's why they
try to push at our property because your property looks bad. know. I mean that's what I'm saying. I don't know. What does yellow mean? It's a wetland. Trainage area. Class one, yeah. Yeah, I don't think your client really has any property. A couple of lots up there at the top.
Yeah, maybe you know it'll probably be a couple nice Big lots that he'll build on?
That'd be better.
Yeah. I mean that's what their intention is in terms of trying to vacate this to kinda The y given that they are remnants and, you know, not being utilized. So
So you want a continuance?
Yeah, that's fine if that if that's you know, if that's if if that's okay. We can kind of bring uh you know, if there's concern about it, I definitely want to be able to answer the board's questions.
Any public comment on this?
Yes.
All right, let's take a break for a minute and see if there's any public comment.
Does anyone from the audience like to speak to this item? Is there anyone online?
No one online.
To the board.
So your January meeting in Newport Ritchie would be the twentieth, correct? So uh my recommendation would be that you continue it until the January twentieth uh twenty twenty-six meeting at one thirty as soon thereafter as same may be heard.
All right. I'll make a motion to move to continue uh January twentieth, two thousand twenty second. Is that what you said?
Twentieth.
Oh, the twentieth. Uh two thousand twenty six. Time certain. Second.
Okay. Any further discussion?
Not time certain, but
not time certain. One thirty
and thereafter is.
Did I say one thirty?
I have a motion to Continue time. s date certain. Date type certain. Um any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Continue.