About Starkey Ranch

The Starkey Ranch community will be designed with adherence to smart growth principles and built around a walkable, compact mix of housing, jobs, schools, shops, parks and recreation spaces. It is planned for the remaining 2,500 acres of the Starkey Ranch, currently a working ranch, in Pasco County, Florida. The property is bordered by Starkey Boulevard on the west and the Starkey Wilderness Preserve on the north and east. The Starkey Wilderness Preserve, consisting of the Jay B Starkey Wilderness Park, the Anclote River Tract and the Serenova Tract, amounts to about 18,000 acres under Southwest Florida Water Management District ownership and is one of the largest undeveloped tracts of land in Pasco County. At the completion of the Starkey Ranch community, more than 80 percent of the original 16,000 acre Starkey Ranch will be preserved and undeveloped, mostly as parkland.

The Starkey family is currently engaged in planning and permitting for this unique community, one that provides for the growing needs of the west central Florida region for housing and commerce in a way that is consistent with the long tradition of environmental stewardship with which the Starkey family is associated. This web site was developed to share information with the public about the planning and permitting process.