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In just Wesley Chapel alone, there are roughly 23 car washes and 12 storage units.

Commissioners said they know there are unmet needs and ask staff to move forward with a taxing plan.

Pasco County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to take their beef with the new Live Local Act to the courts, vowing to sue any developer who would seek to build apartments on industrial or commercial land as permitted under the new law. That legal action would force the Florida attorney general to weigh in since Pasco’s legal team would be calling elements of the Live Local Act ...

Commissioners hope clarifying court rulings might stop the loss of precious commercial and industrial sites.

Pasco officials don’t want property needed for road work near S.R. 54 and U.S. 41 to become apartments.

Watching Pasco’s future commercial and industrial sites get proposed for apartments instead under a new law, county commissioners this week discussed what they called the “nuclear option”: a potential moratorium on new multifamily housing. Commissioners hope to get the Florida Legislature to alter the law called Live Local that passed in the last session. While the intent of that bill was to ...

Freshman Pasco County Commissioner Seth Weightman stood his ground for hours on Tuesday trying to convince fellow board members that now is not the time to burden property owners with higher taxes. Commissioners grappled with the 2024 county spending plan for more than four hours, listening to residents challenged by rising costs due to inflation who didn’t want to see tax increases. They also ...

The fire tax rate will increase, but not as much as previously proposed, and commissioners agreed to roll back the main tax rate for other services slightly.

Pasco Commission chairperson Jack Mariano still isn’t sure how the county should pay for it and he is hoping to add more athletic fields than required at the Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus. But he was on board with the rest of the commission this week in picking a contractor for the work. Trias Construction of Lutz was the sole bidder on the job, according to the commission agenda packet. The ...

The Pasco Commission picks a Lutz contractor for the work while still deciding on a payment plan and other details.