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Board approves revised Seagrass Resort PUD, reducing rental units and preserving specimen trees
Summary
The board approved a comprehensive-plan and PUD amendment for Seagrass Resort that scales down rental units to 12 elevated cottages, keeps the restaurant, preserves specimen trees and reduces impervious coverage; vote was unanimous.
The Board approved a comprehensive-plan amendment and a PUD revision for Seagrass Resort, a riverfront property in Homosassa. The applicant presented a revised plan that reduces the number of rental units from 24 to 12, removes older mobile and on-site units, preserves specimen trees near the restaurant entrance, and proposes boardwalk improvements and upgraded infiltration/drainage controls.
Project representatives said the proposal replaces aging units with elevated, code-compliant cottages and retains the restaurant structure built in 2012. Landscape and stormwater improvements were emphasized, and the applicant said previously permitted infiltration systems will remain in place to treat runoff. Neighbors who had earlier been listed as intervenors met with the applicant and withdrew objections after negotiated adjustments to buffers and fencing.
Planning staff recommended approval with conditions; applicants asked the board to allow fence placement on property boundaries as depicted on the PUD master plan (applicants agreed to adjust conditions to make fence placement explicit). The board found the application consistent with the county code and the Comprehensive Plan and approved the amendments 5-0.
The project must still meet final site-plan and permitting requirements, including engineering, stormwater and floodplain regulations during building-permit review.
