In our entrance web page article from our Nov. 26, 2024, subject entitled, “Will Historic Flooding from Milton Impression Pasco’s Future Land Use Choices?,” we talked a few potential blended use improvement off the north finish of Kenton Rd., simply on the north finish of Wesley Chapel, half of what’s deliberate as Pasco County’s “Linked Metropolis.”

Kenton Rd. will find yourself being an essential journey hall of this ‘new metropolis’ and lots of the properties alongside it have been gearing up for main redevelopment.
The most recent one, on the very reverse south finish of Kenton Rd. and Elam Rd., on the northwest nook of the intersection, is a at present overgrown rural web site of just below 10 acres, with an previous, unkempt and boarded-up home, a blown-down fence, a barn, a mud street and an unfinished concrete block constructing that’s rumored by locals to probably have a number of previous automobiles in it.
On Dec. 19, a rezoning request was filed for this property to take it from an agricultural designation to grow to be a business Grasp Deliberate Unit Improvement (or MPUD) and, in keeping with Pasco’s web site, “to permit for the event of a most of 10,000 sq. ft. of Business/Retail/Workplace House, 90,000 sq. ft. of Self-Storage facility and 120 resort rooms.”

Whereas that request could appear out of character for this at present rural space, the request could also be precisely what Pasco County officers keep in mind for the situation, given what else is coming alongside Kenton Rd. and the near-future street widening plans at present underneath county evaluate that reach a mile north, however would ultimately go one other half mile as much as Tyndall Rd. (proper map), altering the dust Kenton Rd. into one thing rather more suburban in nature.
A plan first submitted in 2022 confirmed Kenton Rd. turning into a two-lane divided roadway with a median, and Elam Rd. to be widened to accommodate a left flip lane onto Kenton Rd. This widening is deliberate to serve visitors for a roughly 100-acre improvement on the east aspect of Kenton Rd. simply north of Elam Rd. That plan made it via to Dec. 2023, with a Discover of Intent (NOI) issued from the county.
Section 2 of the Kenton Rd. widening was submitted later, and would serve a 150-acre mixed-use venture on the northwest finish of Kenton Rd. Plans for this street work have been submitted as just lately as Nov. 2024 and are actively shifting ahead.
The builders of this new 10-acre business venture (labeled “PROJECT SITE” on left map) plan to time their venture to reap the benefits of all this widening, as a result of their “Substandard Highway Software” references the street work being executed by the opposite developments.
Since this can be a rezoning request, it’ll nonetheless require public hearings with each the Pasco Planning Fee and later with the Pasco Board of County Commissioners for approval, with these dates nonetheless to be decided.