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Panel backs ranch zoning change

By KEVIN WIATROWSKI Tampa Tribune (Florida) The Jordan family’s 300-acre ranch north of Dade City one day might become a significant employment center for east Pasco County. Thursday, county officials approved a proposal that calls for building a mix of apartments and town houses fronting U.S. 301, and that designates more than 1.2 million square Read More …

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Pasco commissioners contemplate changes to planning process By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Farms don’t fit intent of environmental fund Copyright 2005 Times Publishing Company St. Petersburg Times (Florida) PASCO TIMES; Pg. 2 Tuesday September 20, 2005 Ooooo, Scary: Owners Defend Property By Tom Jackson Tampa Tribune (Florida) Saturday, January 7, Read More …

Model Of County’s Growth Shows Much Busier Place

By KEVIN WIATROWSKI Tampa Tribune (Florida) Wednesday, October 31, 2007 NEW PORT RICHEY – The tools were children’s playthings, but the job couldn’t have been more grown-up: Mapping out how Pasco can absorb more than 400,000 new residents between now and midcentury. For about two hours Tuesday afternoon at Pasco-Hernando Community College, about four dozen people Read More …

KIRK STEALS SHOW, BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH

By CHUIN-WEI YAP, Times Staff Writer St. Petersburg Times (Florida) PASCO TIMES Friday, December 7, 2007 When he was governor in the 1960s, Claude Kirk appointed attorney Clyde Hobby as a city judge to help quell student unrest at St. Leo University. There was a reunion of sorts in Dade City on Thursday, when the Read More …

Panel okays industrial park

By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer Thursday, August 13, 2009 DADE CITY — A nearly 296-acre office and industrial park that developers say would create 3,275 jobs when built out in 2018 won preliminary approval Thursday from the county’s top planners. The site, on the east side of U.S. 301, is owned by the Jordan Read More …

Harley dealership gets okay

By CHUIN-WEI YAP, Times Staff Writer November 13, 2007 WESLEY CHAPEL – These machines may be feats of human engineering, but when it comes to selling Harley-Davidson motorcycles in Wesley Chapel, the Ferman family is taking a distinctly folksy approach. They’re designing their latest Harley dealership with the woodsy look of a Cabela’s hunting supplies Read More …

Bigger Picture Shows Strength Of Comp Plan

By Tom Jackson Tampa Tribune (Florida) Sunday, November 19, 2006 Not simply because readers in surveys decry the media’s tendency to minimize good news, but also because this latest bright sliver – for all its brain-numbing insider terminology – suggests encouraging developments ahead, This Space pauses today to recognize the meeting of reasonable minds on Read More …

Ooooo, Scary: Owners Defend Property

By Tom Jackson Tampa Tribune (Florida) Saturday, January 7, 2006 It is interesting, if not downright comical, how top members of the preservationist movement in remote, rural northeast Pasco responded to countermeasures undertaken by so-called defenders of private property rights. As Northeast Pasco Concerned Citizens leader Sharon Hanna-West told the Tribune’s Julia Ferrante, “There is Read More …