Doing so would also defy the Lutz Community Plan, which requires new housing developments to create inter-connected roadways to link the community together. The project is the first development under the community plan and civic association leaders warned that allowing gates could open the door for other developers to step on the regulations. The conditions include requiring homes along Newberger Road to face the roadway, prohibiting masonry walls or solid fencing, and installing additional left turn storage lanes on U.S. 41 and Livingston Avenue. A traffic analysis by King Engineering Associates showed that the subdivision would generate 1,310 vehicles a day. Newberger Road resident Robert Ledger, who was prepared to speak at Monday's hearing, said he's not opposed to allowing the gate, if, in exchange, Pasco County would allow a sewer system hook-up.
Plans call for installing septic tanks and drilling wells.
About 80 acres of the 186-acre site are wetlands.