foundation for growth management and its objectives
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Oct 8, 2026
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Oct 8, 2026
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math for one afternoon. Today we are Taken onto both. Bull Growth One, Foundation for Growth Management, and Bull Growth Two, Protection of Rural and Agricultural Areas. So think of Gold Rose One as the big picture. Where growth makes sense, how development fits with what's already there, and how we line it up with infrastructure and opportunities for jobs. Gold Grows 2, on the other hand,
brings us to our rural communities, how we maintain their character, protect rural neighborhoods, and keep agriculture viable. We did not make changes to this goal. If anything, we just made sure that the policies under this goal and the objective under this goal are more clear. So those are the two roles. then they do go hand in hand. We have different ways, like I mentioned, of lifestyle here in Pasco.
You got the east side, you got the west side, and of course we have the central side. or the central Pasco. So we want to make sure we're planning for all of them and for everybody that lives in those areas. So today we'll walk through the objectives and their both of these goals and spend some time on the key policy updates.
Okay.
Let's begin with Gold Growth One, which establishes the foundation for growth management in Pasco County. There's a lot under this poll. So we have grouped its 11 objectives into three categories to make the conversation a lot easier to follow. So we have guiding growth, ensuring compatibility, and strengthening our communities. The first group. The first group addresses our growth management principles, the role of our market areas,
an urban service area, and economic development. These objectives guide where growth should occur and how we coordinate it with infrastructure and opportunities for jobs. The second group focuses on how development fits with its surroundings. So these objectives address residential and non-residential development with an emphasis on compatibility and protecting the character of the surrounding communities. The third group looks at strengthening our communities, addressing non-performing
uses and antiquated flats. supporting redevelopment, creating mixed-use nodes, and improving corridor design. So these objectives take us through three connected questions. Where should growth go? How should it fit? and how can it strengthen our communities.
The pink stars. are identifying the three new objectives. So economic development, objective rose 1.4. The objective road 1.5 suburban density residential future land use category and the objective road 1.10 mixed use nodes to overlay. The economic Development objective brings it's not necessarily new, it just brings existing policies that were scattered all over the chapter and their one dedicated objective.
And of course the SDR and the Mix Nodes objectives establish implementation framework for these new many
tools.
Okay,