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Planning Commission backs Kenton Road commercial MPUD with conditions after residents raise traffic, drainage and notice concerns
Summary
The Pasco County Planning Commission recommended approval of the Kenton Road commercial MPUD (PDE 26-78-72) to the Board of County Commissioners, adding conditions including a property-owners association for the social gathering area, deleting two sentences in condition 5 per the applicant's amendment, and adding prohibitions (pawn shops, certain uses); residents pressed concerns about runoff, dust, private-road access and project phasing.
The Pasco County Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of PDE 26-78-72, a request to rezone land at the northwest corner of Kenton Road and Elam Road to a master-planned unit development that would allow about 110,000 square feet of nonresidential space and a 120-room hotel, while attaching conditions to address neighborhood concerns.
Applicant representative Barbara Wilhite described design commitments intended to create a “community hub” with a pedestrian-oriented social gathering area, limits on uses in certain subareas (restaurants, cafés and bars only for the first two years in areas B and C), prohibition of freestanding drive-thrus and a requirement that storage components provide…
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