Crescent Valley Ranch

Crescent Valley Ranch is an approved Planned Development on about 154 acres of unincorporated Polk County, near Davenport. The approved plan is 350 single-family lots, roughly 40 and 50 feet wide, with about 20 percent of the site set aside as open space. The county Planning Commission approved it in August 2025. Nothing is built and nothing is for sale.

We have to be careful here, because the honest answer is narrower than a yes. The approved site plan in the county file carries a title block reading "prepared for" followed by Holiday Builders. That is a real fact about the public record and it is the only place the builder's name appears in the entire case: not in the staff report, not in the Final Order, not in the application contacts, not in the county's agenda caption. Holiday Builders has published nothing about this community, and it does not appear among the Polk County communities the company currently lists. So the accurate statement is that the approved site plan was prepared for Holiday Builders, not that Holiday Builders is building or selling here.

Because it does, and this is the most useful thing on this page. The title block of the approved plan carries both Crescent Valley Ranch Subdivision and Sallie Grove Subdivision, on the same sheets, for the same land. Neither is confirmed as the marketing name. In our experience a working name that appears alongside a second name on an engineering drawing is a strong signal that the final name has not been settled, and that whichever one goes on the entrance sign may well be the one nobody is searching for yet. We track this property by its approval and its location as well as by both names, so that if it launches as Sallie Grove, or as something else entirely, the people on this list still get told.

Yes. In Polk County a Planning Commission approval does not become final if someone files a de novo appeal within seven days, which sends the matter to the Board of County Commissioners to be reheard from scratch. We enumerated every appeal item on every county commission agenda since the start of 2025 and this project appears in none of them. The window closed in mid-August 2025, thirteen months ago. One documentary note in the interest of not overstating: the county leaves the "date rendered to the Clerk" line blank on the Final Orders it posts publicly, so effectiveness is established by the complete absence of any appeal rather than by a stamped date.

350. Three figures circulate and only one is the approval. The Final Order and the county's staff report both say 350 lots on approximately 154 acres, and that is what was approved. A county case overview published for the earlier July hearing said 354. The original application filed in April 2025 said 385 units on 154.9 acres. Plans change between filing and approval, and this one did, twice. If you see 385 anywhere it is describing a request from before the project was reduced.

West of Highway 547 north, north of 3H Acres Road, south of Little Zion Road and east of Ridgewood Lakes Boulevard, in unincorporated Polk County near Davenport. The main community entrance is planned as a driveway connection onto Lee Jackson Highway, which is County Road 547. It sits just south of Ernie Caldwell Boulevard, which is the corridor that connects this area toward Interstate 4. There are no street addresses or platted lots yet.

No, and this is the single most likely way to end up looking at the wrong thing. Crescent Valley Ranch Road is an existing county-maintained road with existing rural homes on it, and those homes are listed and resold on the major portals right now. Search the community name and you will get them first. They are not this community. They are established houses on an older road that happens to share the name. Crescent Valley Ranch the development has no homes, no addresses and no listings, because it has not been built.

This is an active corridor and the county's own staff report puts the neighbors in useful context. Astonia sits just north, with 681 lots on about 160 acres. Graystone lies west of Astonia with approved plans for 740 units on about 230 acres. Ridgewood Lakes is the larger established development to the west. In other words this is not an isolated parcel, it is the next piece of a corridor already filling in with production housing, which matters for both traffic and for how quickly amenities and retail follow.

Agricultural land assembled from a large number of separate parcels, and the county record notes that the existing wetlands on site are from prior peat mining. The property's land use was changed from a rural residential designation to a mixed residential designation by the county commission in early 2023, which is the step that made this density possible at all. We mention the mining history because it is accurate and because it is the sort of thing that shapes engineering and stormwater design. No environmental finding of any kind has been published for this property and we are not implying one.

Polk County Public Schools assigns attendance zones by physical address, and no addressed home exists here yet, so any school named today would be a guess. What the county record does say is that the zoned schools in this area were found to have capacity to accommodate the development at the time of review. That is a capacity finding, not an assignment, and this corridor is absorbing several large approvals at once. Run the specific address through the district's locator once addresses are assigned.

As unincorporated Polk County land, a tax bill would combine county millage, the school board, the water management district and other special districts, with no city millage. Many Florida communities of this size also carry a community development district, which finances infrastructure through bonds repaid by an annual assessment on your tax notice, on top of HOA dues. We checked the county's district records specifically: no community development district exists for Crescent Valley Ranch. That could change, and if it does it will appear on the public record before it appears on your tax bill.

No date has been announced by anyone. The Planned Development approval is final, but the project still has to clear the county's later engineering and subdivision review, then platting and infrastructure. Access is currently planned from a county-maintained local road with a paved width of about 20 feet, which the county notes is not tracked for concurrency, so road work is likely part of the sequence. Treat any date you encounter as a target rather than a commitment.

Join the interest list on this page. We read Polk County's Planning Commission records directly, which is how a 350-lot approval with a builder's name buried in a drawing title block ended up documented here while there is still nothing to buy.