NEW PORT RICHEY — Greater than 30 years in the past, the look of a cookie-cutter subdivision in Land O’ Lakes referred to as Carpenter’s Run helped to land Pasco County on the large display when the film Edward Scissorhands was partially filmed there.
Present Pasco leaders need future housing to be extra enticing than that as residential development in grasp deliberate developments explodes throughout the county.
Pasco County commissioners agreed Tuesday on a set of design requirements as steering for such future improvement. These guidelines for subdivisions with small heaps will now require home design variations, a restrict on the variety of properties on small heaps with driveways within the entrance and particular necessities for bushes within the entrance of properties.
In recent times, builders have pitched subdivisions filled with properties on smaller heaps. They argue that 40-foot-wide homesites are in demand from new house patrons who don’t need a massive yard to take care of. However the smaller websites, whereas maximizing using the land, have additionally prompted aesthetic issues.
During the last a number of months, Pasco commissioners have often talked about their points with the looks of some grasp deliberate communities. Fee chairperson Kathryn Starkey has introduced slides to share what she sees in her district that she mentioned might be finished higher. The brand new guidelines grew from these discussions with an emphasis on enhancing the look of future housing websites.
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Beneath the principles adopted this week, properties of the identical mannequin on 40 and 50-foot heaps must embody three architectural options that are totally different from these round them. That might embody totally different colours, totally different supplies equivalent to brick, stucco or stone, totally different preparations of doorways and home windows, porches or dormers, gables and eaves, totally different trim and totally different decorative options.
For various fashions of homes adjoining to 1 one other, monotony is to be prevented, in keeping with the rules.
Homes that again as much as or face a road ought to, on the very least, have a reversal of flooring plans or modifications in materials colours. And not more than 20 p.c of the garages ought to protrude greater than eight toes past the roof line of every house and every of these ought to include ornamental storage fronts.
Grasp deliberate developments now enable 40-foot, single-family properties. The brand new guidelines will probably be that any that embody greater than 50 p.c of housing on 40-foot heaps would have a threshold. Tons above that fifty p.c threshold be deemed rear-loaded heaps and wouldn’t be allowed to have a driveway within the entrance. The remainder of the heaps must be at the very least 50 foot huge.
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That rule, in keeping with Pasco’s planning and improvement director, Nectarios Pittos, would guarantee “half of the event can have extra inexperienced area on the entrance of their items as a result of the driveways could be within the again.”
A master-planned improvement can have 100% 40-foot-lots however all must be rear-loaded, in keeping with the rules. All rear-loaded heaps in these communities which have alleys will get a break on the affect charges they’d pay the county for future transportation enhancements.
The brand new tips additionally embody guidelines in regards to the required quantity and kinds of bushes each for single-family properties and townhomes. The brand new guidelines would restrict townhomes to between two and eight items per constructing so there could be extra inexperienced area on these townhome heaps, county workers mentioned.
Commissioners debated the worth of setting the upper requirements for properties on heaps wider than 40 or 50 toes. Commissioner Ron Oakley argued that house house owners are shopping for costlier homes on larger heaps and usually tend to already search extra fascinating and distinctive kinds.
Starkey mentioned it wouldn’t harm to incorporate all housing beneath the extra stringent guidelines for the reason that requirements would doubtless already be met. She needed to ensure that all future properties had extra architectural options making them extra enticing. “I don’t suppose that’s asking an excessive amount of,” she mentioned. With none requirement, she mentioned, “someone will dive to the underside.”
Commissioner Jack Mariano mentioned that he agreed to the requirements for the 40 and 50-foot heaps however that “the bigger ones are going to be all proper” even with out the requirement.
The requirements, which had been developed with enter from native land use attorneys and builders, will probably be reviewed once more in six months to evaluate what has labored and what might be adjusted if wanted, Pittos mentioned. The fee additionally agreed that within the subsequent dialogue, in addition they wish to embody guidelines concerning required parking in new developments.
