NEW PORT RICHEY – The Pasco County Planning Commission approved a special exception Oct. 17 that will allow a former Veteran’s Affairs Medical Clinic building to be used as an adult care center.
The 7.99-acre site is located on the southeast corner of Little Road and Grove Drive in west central Pasco County.
Plans call for the center to be developed in conformance with the E-R Estate-Residential District.
The property was operated as a Veteran’s Affairs Medical Clinic from 2000 to mid-2023. The property consists of a 45,700-square-foot office building.
The owners intend to use the property for a BoldAge PACE center. PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) is a national managed care program aimed at keeping older adults who qualify for nursing home level of care living independently and safely at home. PACE programs coordinate and offer a wide range of services, including preventative, primary care, acute and long-term care.
The proposed project will occupy 29,000 square feet of the building to provide the PACE services. All of the intended services BoldAge PACE provides fall within the already approved special exception for professional offices use.
The Adult Day Care component of the program will use 6,064 square feet, or 13% of the total square footage of the property.
The special exception was necessary because the Adult Day Care component of the BoldAge PACE program is outside of the professional office special exception.
Plans call for the remaining 16,000 square feet to be leased for other professional office uses.
Subject to a portion of Pasco County’s Land Development Code, the owner/applicant may be required to convey, at no cost to Pasco County, the amount of right-of-way needed to achieve 73 feet from the centerline of Little Road.
Other business
In other business, the planning commission:
• Recommended the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners approve a request by Sandarben LLC to rezone 92.6 acres on the northwest corner of Bellamy Bros Boulevard and Johnston Road in northeast Pasco County. The applicant is seeking to change the zoning from an A-C Agricultural District to an AR-5 Agricultural-Residential District.
The site consists of two single-family homes on 92.60 acres. The applicant proposes to develop the property with 18 single-family homes on five-acre lots.
Subject to a portion of Pasco County’s Land Development Code, the owner/applicant may be required to convey, at no cost to Pasco County, the amount of right-of-way needed to achieve 57 feet from the centerline of Bellamy Bros Boulevard.
The board is scheduled to consider the request Nov. 12 in Dade City.
• Recommended approval of an application for a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment for 3.02 acres located at the northeast corner of Jasmine Boulevard and Little Road.
Little Road Commercial is requesting the amendment from RES-1 (Residential-1 DU/GA) to COM (Commercial) to allow for commercial, retail and office uses on the property.
Commissioners will hold an adoption hearing on the request Dec. 10 in New Port Richey.
If adopted, the amendment would enable the development of commercial uses and promote economic growth for the surrounding area.
The applicant has proposed a voluntary deed restriction on the site to ensure the intended use of the property is for commercial/industrial uses and not include residential uses.
The development would expand the existing commercial uses, which aligns with the intent of the Commercial Future Land Use classification, as it would act as a community-serving commercial development.
The planning commission’s action came after it was agreed to strike all references to C-2 (General Commercial) in the application along with references to access points from Jasmine Boulevard and Little Road.
The applicant has also agreed to a voluntary deed restriction to ensure the property is used only for industrial uses.
