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File #: 25-2045   
Type: Public Hearings Status: Passed
File created: 10/28/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 11/5/2025 Final action: 11/5/2025
Title: LDCT-2025-18 (Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment)
Attachments: 1. LDCT-2025-18 Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment Impact Assessment Statement_NE (1), 2. LDCT-2025-18 Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment Accela Application, 3. LDCT-2025-18 Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment Demonstration of Need_NE (1), 4. LDCT-2025-18 Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment Ordinance, 5. LDCT-2025-18 Natural Encounters Text Amendment Staff Report

SUBJECT

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LDCT-2025-18 (Natural Encounters LDC Text Amendment)

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DESCRIPTION

Applicant-initiated request for a Land Development Code Amendment to create a parcel specific restriction that will prohibit certain uses from being developed on 33-acres of property in the Rural Development Area (RDA). Site is located south of State Road 540 (Cypress Gardens Boulevard), west of US Highway 27, east of Eloise Loop, and north of Thompson Nursery Road, surrounded by Winter Haven city limits, in Sections 17, Township 29, and Range 27. Case is related to a Future Land Use change from Agricultural/Residential Rural (A/RR) to Leisure/Recreation (L/R) as part of LDCPAS-2025-26.

 

RECOMMENDATION

Approval                     

 

FISCAL IMPACT

Anticipated

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Johnathan (JP) Sims

Planner II

Polk County BoCC

863-534-7515

johnathansims@polk-county.net