WELCOME to Paving Assessment

Pasco County, like many predominately rural counties throughout the United States and Florida, funds the paving and repaving of the roads by assessing the benefited property owners. Property taxes are not used for road construction or maintenance. Your property taxes fund parks, libraries, jails, courts, law enforcement, animal control, and a myriad of other County services and offices, but not local road improvements.

Local or neighborhood streets are paved or repaved under the Special Assessment Ordinance No. 02-17. While the County does maintain some limerock roads by grading, the County cannot afford to accept additional unpaved roads for maintenance or pave those we do maintain. The money to fund these types of road improvements comes from the Paving Assessment Account (a revolving fund). The benefited property owners are required to repay the money so that the Paving Assessment Account will be replenished and future projects will be possible. The repayment can vary from five to fifteen years depending on the project.

The simplified petition process is as specified by Special Assessment Ordinance No. 02-17:

1. The Paving Assessment Office is contacted and a site visit is requested for the roads involved. The initial contact person making the request provides their name, address and telephone number.

2. The Paving Assessment Engineer then conducts a site evaluation and prepares the initial cost estimate for the improvements requested.

3. The initial contact person is informed as to the nature of the work involved, along with a preliminary cost estimate. If it is decided to proceed with the project based on this information the initial contact person is then designated petition leader.

4. The paving assessment office sends out petition letters to all the benefited property owners explaining the proposed project, and the maximum amount to be assessed after the work is completed. Also enclosed with the letter is a returned envelope and a form on which the property owners vote YES or NO for the proposed project. Before preceding, 50% of those responding must be in favor of the project.

5. If enough favorable responses are received the Board of County Commissioners hold a public hearing on the petition, and if approved, the petition becomes a project and is scheduled for construction.

6. After the project is completed, all specially benefited property owners are billed their share of the completed work regardless of whether they voted for or against the improvement project.