Planning panel backs Clearview Estates PUD amendment to allow flexible access, internal out‑parcels

Citrus County Planning and Development Commission members voted unanimously at their February 2025 hearing to recommend approval of application PUD 3,026, an amendment to the Clearview Estates planned unit development that would allow flexibility in locating access points on State Road 44 and permit outparcels accessed from internal roadways instead of requiring direct frontage on 44.

The application, filed by Citrus Hills Investment Properties, LLC, seeks to amend the Clearview Estates master plan for roughly 77–78 acres of commercially designated land east of South Kensington Avenue along State Road 44 in Inverness. Applicant Eric Abel told the commission the change would let future developers “eliminate and or exchange specific designated access points from 44 and or Kensington” and would permit internal access to outparcels so customers “can access the internal [roadways]…and it keeps traffic off of entering and exiting to and from 44.”

The measure matters because the master plan currently shows multiple specific access points onto State Road 44. Staff and the applicant said the amendment is intended to reduce delays and the need for repeated PUD amendments when a prospective tenant requests a different driveway configuration. Joanna (planning staff) told the commission the property remains commercially designated and that engineering has proposed a…