Conditional Use Request (Consent) – Saint Joe Ranch LLC & BB Agritourism LLC – Conditional Use Permit to Combine Two Previously Approved Conditional Use Permits (CU12-07 & CU19-01) Into One Unified Conditional Use Permit for an Amusement Park in an A-C Agricultural District – North Central Pasco County – Approximately 840 Feet East of the Intersection of St. Joe Road and Bellamy Brothers Boulevard - Containing Approximately 118 acres. File Number PDE26-CU01

1:56:08I think it's a good idea, so we'll let Commissioner Weightman drive that one. All right. Item P eighty-nine was pulled.

1:56:22Mr. Chairman Mariano there was an item PIFBA twenty six dash zero zero six three. Um it was noticing a public hearing on The county's intent to acquire part of the system from FGOA. That item is being withdrawn from this agenda. It was advertised it is not on your agenda, but it It

1:56:52in case there's anybody in the audience who is here for that item, it is being withdrawn by the administrator and it will become back as a regular item, likely on August eleventh. It's not on your agenda, it was advertised for today.

1:57:09Okay. Okay. So P eighty nine was on consent, was pulled. We had a couple of people want to speak to it. So let me let me take the public comment first.

1:57:19Oh so

1:57:20P eighty nine?

1:57:20P eighty nine you have Nancy Hazlewood who has signed up.

1:57:23Okay.

1:57:25Two for P ninety, just

1:57:27Right.

1:57:40SC HAYZ WOOD [address removed]. Did I just hear y'all say that it's what, withdrawn or F

1:57:50D U A.

1:57:50No, different. Different item. Different item. Not your item.

1:57:55Okay. So this doesn't mean if it comes back or something I can't talk, right? Okay. So there's a couple of things that

1:58:03this is final approval of this item. So yes, this is your opportunity to speak.

1:58:07Yes, sir. Um Um so the first thing I was wanting to know is they've got a hundred and eighteen acres, I believe. Um but yet they say that they're going to do a pumpkin patch and a small Christmas walk. I was wondering why that took a hundred and eighteen acres. Yeah. That's one question. Number two is I am concerned about them staying open till 1 a.m. and

1:58:37they're asking for more alcohol, but maybe this this part is too different because I'm concerned about kids from high school being left out till one a.m. and getting home at two a.m. I don't know. Is that something we do now? We let our kids stay out to two AM if they're seventeen years old, eighteen years old maybe, sixteen? Because if they're keeping it open till one a.m. And then the kids are going home. I am not

1:59:07sure how responsible that is. So that that's another consideration. I believe that's on there. Am I mistaken? Mr. Steinstein. Am I mistaken in that? I do believe that's on there that they want to change the times.

1:59:25It is, but we don't get into that, right?

1:59:28Well you you You know, i if it's part of the conditions of approval you can get into that, but I mean discussion. But it I'm not sure whether that's part of the

1:59:37on Friday and Saturday.

1:59:41Okay.

1:59:42Anyways, that's that's my concern. I'm not sure that's real responsible leaving something open till 1 a.m. and you've got kids in there that are still in high school. But maybe I'm wrong and things have changed. I'm I'm just an old person now. Thank y'all.

1:59:59Mr. Alby.

2:00:01Mr. Chairman Clark Hobby, Hobby and Hobby PA 109 North Brush Street, Tampa, Florida, have been sworn. Uh, to answer the questions and just to remind everyone. We are we have the same hours of operation on these two sites. All we're doing is combining the two sites and allowing them to operate at the same time. So that if we have the Screamageddon event on the east side, we can have a pumpkin patch on the west side. Similarly, if we have the snow hill going on the west side, we can have a Christmas

2:00:31function on the other side. The only thing That changed is we added a little more time for people to get off of the site after we closed the gates. With regard to the alcohol, and I think she might have really been alluding to the next conditional use item. We have been open since 2012, and we've been selling alcohol for a number of years, and we've never had a drinking and driving issue. And the reason is the client has. has a very harsh uh drinking on site

2:01:02series of rules for liability purposes and they maintain relationships with Uber and Lyft so that if anyone is cited as being, you know, drunk on site, they automatically pay for them to have a free ride home. They just call the person, they say, you're out of here, and here's your ride home.

2:01:21Commissioner Starkey.

2:01:22I think this is going to be a great addition to the community. And as I said in the meeting that I was with you guys, please have your applicant get that um Harry Potter experience. And I don't think there's alcohol and butterbeer, but I don't know. I I didn't know that. But uh that was an amazing experience. I went to that in Virginia with my daughter and and my grandkids. You're walking through the woods at night and it's a Harry Potter village and it was amazing and I love that our communities maybe can

2:01:52be able to have something like that here.

2:01:54I won't belabor things but this is a real PASCO success story. Yeah. That we have seventy-five full-time equivalent employees out there and there were over seven thousand Hotel night stays last year for this product.

2:02:09Okay.

2:02:09No, and and I say I've I've been out there several times with the family watching what he's done from tree hoppers on through, and it's always been a tremendous experience. What he's done is just elevate entertainment in Pasco County to a to the highest level. So I think he'll do a great job with it.

2:02:24Do you have a public comment?

2:02:26Um I had one public comment. They had no one else signed up. Anyone else want to be do public comment to this item? No one signed up. I have a motion.

2:02:34Second.

2:02:35All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Unanimous. Okay, next one, T ninety.

2:02:44That one you have to do.