Comprehensive Plan Amendment (Consent) – CPA25(02) North Pasco Resort – Providing for Transmittal of a Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment to Subarea Policy FLU 7.1.63- North Pasco Resort
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jan 6, 2026
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jan 6, 2026
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
This case, across meetings
PDE-26-0024 in full →PDE-26-0024 was taken up 4 times between Dec 11, 2025 and Apr 7, 2026, continued 1 time — this is appearance 2.
- Dec 11, 2025PlanningP7No disposition in the minutes
- Jan 6, 2026BoardP66▶Approvedthis item
- Mar 10, 2026BoardP50▶Continued
- Apr 7, 2026GeneralP46Adopted
What was said
Machine transcription of 13m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 78% of 77 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Yes. That's a motion a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. So we've got item P sixty six. Mm-hmm.
All right. Um so P sixty-six is the comprehensive plan amendment for the North Pasco R V um with a companion on P seventy-one. Not sure if you want to do it right now or later, um, but P seventy one is looking to continue the item to match the transmittal or the adoption date of the comprehensive plan amendment. However, the applicant has requested that we do uh include the MPD presentation with the Comp Plan presentation as well at this time.
Okay, so we're gonna be continuing this item. But to the people that are here, if they want to speak to us now, they can or they can wait till we have the full public hearing.
And the continuance is just for the rezoning, not the complan.
Okay. So who the two people?
Yes.
Uh Nancy Hazelwood.
Do you wanna wait or or speak or she goes up? She's gotta if she wants to speak to the Complan amendment, she's gotta do it now.
Okay.
So the so the applicant has requested the comprehensive plan amendment and the zoning be taken up in the same hearing. However the however the zoning is not going to be acted on today. So but The Comp Plan Amendment is. So you have three minutes to talk about the Comp Plan Amendment. If you wish to talk about the zoning amendment, You wave your time at the next hearing. So I would advise
you just to talk about the comprehensive plan amendment. If Next time. But you but you can talk about the comprehensive plan amendment. It the board will be taking action on it today.
Your your comprehensive plan is going
to
be voted on today. The only time to speak on the comprehensive plan is right now.
But I'm not sure.
The uh the rezoning
out yeah. If you signed up for it because you didn't didn't like like it or have comments on I would I would throw them all into the comprehensive plan amendment like most people usually do.
But Okay, so Niss's gonna come forward.
All right. So
Uh so we're gonna take public comment. Clear the podium.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nancy Hazelway, [address removed]. Um My biggest problem with this whole thing is the height of the hotel. and the entertainment area that I have seen nothing about and don't know anything about. Think of it this way. This is a destination site. Your target people are snowbirds and they're coming in in November and they're staying
till springtime and they've got to entertain 'em. You're in the Northeast Raw area plan. And it specifically says that you aren't supposed to do anything to jeopardize the northeaster areas. Community, the environment, everything. And you've got this entertainment site that they aren't telling us about and we don't know anything about and I wanna know something about it before it's voted in.
You know, it might be perfectly okay if you put it in a building or if you don't have amplification going on. But that's might be fun. Okay. Thank you.
And the next person for P66?
Wow, crazy. Jay Hoster.
This is quite annoying.
Well like this one.
Yeah. James Hoster, my residence is [address removed], but I own property immediately uh uh to the north of the project. My concern is this uh you re you re reduced some of the uh uh the uh
Excuse me. Um you re you reduce uh uh some of the uh uh the spaces for the for the uh uh uh for both the yurts and for the uh the RV home uh the R V sites uh to to balance out the uh the trip generation for the for the hotel. But there's a significant difference there. Let's face it, basically the RV side the RV project was designed to be kind of temporary
housing. People come and they stay for a period of time. Snowbirds came for the season and so forth. They don't leave during the peak hour. Or they don't arrive during the peak hours. They particularly avoid the peak hours. And also the amenities on the site are attractive to them. y the hotel is neither of those things. They they arrive in the peak out in the PM peak hour and they and they leave in the AM peak hour. And they and they tr uh where
you've already got major traffic problems, this exacerbates them.
And that really hardly qualifies. All the major destinations for that are are around Disney and and uh the Orlando area and even and even uh Legoland has uh hotels around it. They are they all have hotels in their immediate area. So this is just a pass-through hotels, uh creating the problems in a in a different location. And uh these are this is a much more severe
pr uh impact on the community than it was when it was when you were just dealing with uh with RV uh RVs and and and your
I think you need to be made aware of that. This is not an improvement. This is a deterioration in the project.
Yeah.
Do you have any questions?
We don't ask questions. Thank you. All right, anyone want to come back up? The Occupy can go after that.
Oh is there is there anyone else in the audience that would like to speak to this item? And there's no one online? So we're gonna close public comment and uh Amy if you want to address what you just heard and then we'll have the applicant speak.
Yeah, um so just two highlights. Uh the height is a hundred and is fifty-five feet. Uh the reason why it's fifty-five feet is because uh North Pasco and the North Pasco um I'm sorry, excuse me, Northeast rural area uh does not have a height limit. a restriction for non-residential uses. So it does default to the code in that scenario. But it is capped at 55 feet and the RV resorts, those are going to be 180 day. So they
are going to be seasonal, like you had mentioned.
Okay, and what about the the entertainment part?
The entertainment part. Entertainment?
We like the elephant tree. Thank you. for some.
Farber Well Hight, 6327 Grand Boulevard. You've had to hear hear me coughing this whole day, so I might as well get up here and talk to you all for the applicant. Um The couple questions. With regard to the um entertainment area, I I never understand where that's coming from. This is resorts. You can see from the binding concept plan that it's an integrated resort. This isn't just a hotel by the interstate. Y we did a binding concept plan and and had a lot of thoughtfulness in how we did that and it's You
can see the amenities integrated. So the conversation about this being some separate hotel and an RV um resort is not correct. Regarding and the entertainment area, I don't know what that refers to, but I did include a condition, we're not here in the MP MPUD today. But I'm glad it's before you in your packet so you can have all the information 'cause I think it's important for the board to have all the information. So I pushed for you to have all the information for you today and it's fine that you don't hear or act on the MPUD, that's fine with
me. But I did include a condition in the M PUD that said 'Cause I kept getting this question. Any outdoor entertainment area should be limited to resort guests and restaurant bar patrons only. There shall be no stage lighting that creates light spill or glare off-site and the project shall comply with your noise ordinance. So I think it covers who, how, and noise. The The uh hotel is fifty-five feet, the height limit is fifty-five feet. Not only did we put a limit on it, we
imposed that limit on it, we also agreed to a setback from the Lake Iola right away of two hundred and seventy-four feet. And we have a substantial buffer, the same buffer that we had before. Um Lake Iola quarter buffer was substantial that we have in there as well. So a lot of thoughtfulness went into restricting our height as well as how far we were set back from Lake Iola and the quarter buffer that goes in betwe along Lake Iola.
Now Barbara, I thought we did mention when we heard this the first time that we you did talk about entertainment be going on there. I thought it would be pretty close to where E would be. Is that still planned that way or? It's the primary
resort lodge is what you what he
equates to. Exactly. In that area where there we have our pools, we have outdoor bars, we have those types of things, we anticipate that there will be entertainment. There will be uh music that you can go and listen to. Um it is well set into this site, your noise ordinance applies. I mean I tried to write a very specific condition as to who, how, you know, that area would operate. I can tell you that I was ever asked this question for Saddlebrook and
any other resort I've ever worked on, um, because it just is something you have normally at the resort, you have I know I go to resorts and I listen to outdoor music, so I don't think it's a thing. I think it's just something that would accompany the resort.
I just wanna add something. Uh the hotel the hotel itself is different than your normal hotel that you will see in other places. This is an extended living hotel. This is a hotel that someone would come in and they may stay six months and then they go back home. That's the way this hotel's built and it's got kitchenettes in it for people to stay longer. It also has I believe uh doesn't have a lazy river.
Yeah the the
amendment.
Yeah
it does it does have quite a bit.
But it's not your regular hotel that's gonna actually you're gonna come in and stay the night and leave the next morning. It's extended live living hotel so it's expands.
We this has been this is being added to the resort to complement the resort. So I think
you have three votes.
What was that?
I think you have three votes. I just
want
to say I look at this as a dish.
I
know
but I just think it's important that this could explain. And I you know we added the re the hotel so there'd be another place for favor say hi. Good
job, Barbara.
Just for clarification for the record, that was for authorized transmittal of the proposed comprehensive plan amendment to the Department of Commerce and other reviewing agents. Thank you.
Okay, item P sixty eight.
P sixty we've already given proof on this.
were sixty nine.
We are at sixty-six.
Do we want to make an
advantage? Actually, no, it's sixty nine. It
is
sixty nine, sorry, sixty eight was done. Okay, sixty-eight. This is the one commissioner started equal.