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Frustrated in trying to put 173 double wide mobile homes on 89 acres, the developer now proposes 86 villas on about half the land.
By JAMES THORNER, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 16, 2003
MOON LAKE -- A Pinellas County developer that failed last year to rezone property on Moon Lake Road for a mobile home park will try again this spring with villas.
Rose Builders Inc., based in Safety Harbor, sparked outrage from neighbors this past fall with plans for 173 double wide mobile homes on 89 acres between Oconee Boulevard and Wonder Avenue in the Moon Lake Estates neighborhood.
It has returned this year with a more upscale plan for 86 villas -- attached single-family dwellings similar to townhomes -- on about half the property. An undisclosed number of villas would fill the rest of the land in future phases of the development.
The property, which Rose bought from Glenda Joyce in June, sits east of Moon Lake Road, is heavily wooded and surrounds a two-acre lake. Rose said its homes, dubbed Rosehaven Villas, would sit on 40-foot-by-110-foot lots.
The company's rezoning application, from agricultural to planned unit development, is scheduled for consideration before the Pasco County Planning Commission on May 14 and county commissioners on May 20.