SUBJECT
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SET HEARING: (LDPD-2025-9/DeNovo; The Highlands Club PD) This is a request appealing the decision of the Planning Commission to approve a Planned Development for 747 single-family homes. The suggested hearing dates are for the first reading on January 6, 2026, at 9:15 a.m.
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DESCRIPTION
This is a request from Barbara Andrews, area property owner, which is appealing the Planning Commission’s 6:1 decision on November 5, 2025, to approve. This case is a request for a Planned Development approval for 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. State law requires one Planning Commission hearing, which was held on November 5, 2025, with a 6:1 vote for approval.
RECOMMENDATION
Request Board set for the first reading on January 6, 2026, at 9:15 a.m.
FISCAL IMPACT
No Fiscal Impact
CONTACT INFORMATION
Erik Peterson, AICP
Planning Administrator
Land Development Division
(863) 534-6470
erikpeterson@PolkFL.gov