SUBJECT
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Public Hearing (LDPD-2025-9 Highlands Club PD) (De Novo Hearing) appealing the decision of the Planning Commission to approve a Planned Development for 747 single-family homes.
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DESCRIPTION
This is a request from Barbara Andrews, area property owner, appealing the Planning Commission’s 6:1 decision on November 5, 2025, to approve the Highland Club PD Highland Club is a Planned Development consisting of 747 single-family homes on 50’ and 130’ wide lots on approximately 300 +/- acres in the Residential Low-1 (RL-1) and Residential Low-2 (RL-2) future land use designation located within the Urban Growth Area (UGA) and Transit Supportive Development Area (TSDA). The subject property is located west of US Highway 98, south of Crews Lake Drive, west of Yarborough Lane, south of County Road 540-A, east of McCall Road and northwest of the City of Bartow in Sections 22 & 27, Township 29, Range 24. Lakeland Farms Inc., Suzanne M. Ellsworth, Suz Investment Corporation & Michellesworth, Inc., Taramor Properties, Inc., William & Grey, Inc. and Wogan S. Badcock, III & Michelle E. Badcock, are said owners.
RECOMMENDATION
Approval with Conditions
FISCAL IMPACT
No Fiscal Impact
CONTACT INFORMATION
Erik Peterson, AICP
Planning Administrator
Land Development Division
(863) 534-6470
erikpeterson@PolkFL.gov