Growth Management

Pasco County will focus future growth into sustainable and competitive market areas with readily available infrastructure and alternative modes of transportation, provide protection of resources and a diversity of community types from vertical urban to the most protective rural.

The Key Intended Results by which we will measure our success include:

Urban Service Areas - Adopt the required Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code amendments to establish a Coastal/Inland Redevelopment and Infill urban service area and a Gateway "Opportunity" urban service area along State Road 54 as described in the 2008 Urban Land Institute report by 2010.

Future Land Development Patterns - Maintain the County’s open space and rural environment by directing new residential, commercial, and industrial development to established Urban Service Areas to improve urban vs. non-urban development ratios:

New Residential Development:         50% in USAs / 50% in non-USAs

New Commercial Development:        60% in USAs / 40% in non-USAs

New Office Development:               65% in USAs/ 35% in non-USAs

New Industrial Development:           65% in USAs / 35% in non-USAs

New Hospitality                            75% in USAs / 25% in non-USAs

New Infill Development                   80% in USAs / 20% in non-USAs

Neighborhood Redevelopment          80% in USAs / 20% in non-USAs

Area-Wide Transportation Concurrency & Mobility Fee - Adopt Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code amendments to establish area wide concurrency by 2012.