By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
DADE CITY — New state laws that would let Pasco more easily steer growth into two key areas top the county's legislative wish list.
Commissioners on Tuesday put together their priorities for Pasco's legislative delegation, which is scheduled to meet from 1 to 5 p.m. Jan. 21 at J.W. Mitchell High School.
On that list is a request to change portions of Senate Bill 360, the controversial 2009 growth management law that a judge ruled unconstitutional but that essentially remains in effect. That legislation authorized local governments to let developers off the hook on certain road-building requirements if they build in already populated "urban service areas."
Pasco sees its problem as this: The two parts of the county where it wants to concentrate future growth — along U.S. 19 in west Pasco and the State Road 54 ...