A massive development on 2,900 acres of ranchland in Land O’ Lakes is a step closer to reality.
The Pasco County Commission on April 4 approved transmitting a request by 4G Ranch PD to the state Department of Economic Opportunity and other state agencies for review.
This is a preliminary step that’s required before the county board can approve a change to the county’s comprehensive plan, and that change is required before new zoning entitlements can be granted.
Plans call for developing approximately 3,800 homes and 300,000 square feet of retail and office uses on the land.
The site is on State Road 52, about 2.25 miles east of U.S. 41. It is currently designated as a rural transition area on the county’s long-range planning map.
The request calls for changing the site’s designation from agricultural and agricultural-residential to a planned development.
The subject property is bisected by a Critical Linkage Ecological Corridor, in the name of Connerton to Crossbar. The applicant proposes amending the map to reduce the size of the corridor from about 830 acres to about 595 acres.
The county has no objections to the proposed changes in the eco-corridor because even after the changes, it would meet the intent of providing a connection between ecological conservation areas and supporting necessary habitat, according to materials that were included in the Pasco County Planning Commission’s agenda packet, from when it considered the request.
4G Ranch is owned by the Phillips family.
Published April 12, 2023
