The Pasco County Planning Commission recommended approval of a comprehensive plan text amendment and a substantial MPUD modification that would rename the existing North Pasco RV Resort to North Pasco Resort, reduce RV spaces from 550 to 350 and permit a four‑story, 250‑room hotel.

Staff planner Ed Zodin described the change to sub‑area policy that would allow the hotel and the corresponding reduction in RV entitlements. The plan maintains the area’s PD future land use and preserves the PD zoning but modifies the binding concept plan to concentrate density around the resort core while preserving large perimeter buffers and limiting permanent residency.

Applicant representative Barbara Wilhite presented recent drone imagery to show active construction and said the project team has added binding conditions limiting outdoor entertainment to resort guests and restaurant/bar patrons, prohibiting off‑site light spill, and complying with the county’s noise ordinance. Wilhite also said the team plans a 100‑square‑foot sheriff work area in the arrival building to assist local law enforcement.

Residents voiced concerns about noise, potable water supply, wastewater treatment capacity and retention pond overflow. Nancy Hazelwood urged stricter limits on outdoor amplification and greater assurance that pools and hotel amenities would not stress local wells. Albert Austrino and others asked where treated wastewater would go and whether the existing wastewater plant could accommodate the resort’s flows.

Joe Cimino, the project’s civil engineer, responded that the stormwater ponds are designed to provide water quality treatment and attenuation and that the project’s post‑development discharge will match pre‑development conditions. He said the team designed to a 100‑year pre/post discharge standard for permitting and described a modern wastewater treatment system with about eight acres of drip irrigation for distribution of treated effluent rather than conventional septic fields.

After questions and conditions to address noise, registration limits for long‑term stays and utility commitments, the commission approved PC7 and PC8 by voice vote and adjourned the meeting. The recommendation will be forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners for a final decision.