Community Meeting Set To Discuss Development At I-75/Blanton Road

DADE CITY, FL —Residents are invited to a community meeting Tuesday to discuss a proposed amendment to the Pasco County Comprehensive Land Use Plan regarding the property at Interstate 75 and Blanton Road.

The meeting will take place Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. at Redemption Church, 17351 Hyland Lane, Dade City.

Developer Larry Guilford is expected to attend the meeting.

The proposal is to change the land use of the property from Employment Center and Agricultural to Commercial and Industrial Light.

Once the land use amendment is approved the owner wants to rezone the property from Agricultural, Residential and Commercial to Commercial and Light Industrial.

"This development will set the tone for development in the area," said Lisa Moretti of the Northeast Pasco Citizens Oversight Committee. "It requires a change to the comp plan."

Moretti said the committee hopes to work with Guilford on a rezoning that meets the needs of the community and the property owner.

"We'll ask to definitively find out what the developer has planned and why there needs to be a change to the comprehensive plan for what he wants to do," she said. "Suffice it to say a truck stop would not be cool."

She said Guilford already met with the Northeast Pasco Citizens Oversight Committee Monday.

To gather comments and concerns from residents, she's set up a Facebook page titled "Protect the Northeast Pasco Overlay."