Ville Di Toscana

Ville Di Toscana is an approved 108-home single-family subdivision on 24.5 acres in Ridge Manor, in unincorporated Hernando County. The county commission approved the rezoning unanimously in January 2026. What makes it interesting is what it replaced: the same land was approved in 2010 for 241 townhomes intended for tourist and resort use, and that plan was never built. Nothing is built now either, no builder has been assigned, and nothing is for sale.

The market did. The county's own staff report puts it plainly: those uses are no longer marketable uses in this community. The land has been entitled twice before and built out neither time. In 2007 it was rezoned for apartments at nearly ten units per acre. In 2010 it was rezoned again, this time for 241 townhomes for tourist and resort usage. Fifteen years later nothing exists on the ground, and the current owner came back to the county asking to build ordinary for-sale houses instead. The unit count fell from 241 to 108 and the density from 9.8 units per acre to 4.3, a reduction of more than half.

Yes. The county commission adopted a resolution approving the rezoning on a unanimous five to nothing vote in January 2026. There was no comprehensive plan amendment involved, so no state review applies, and there is no further discretionary approval. Two conditions do sit between the approval and construction, and they are worth knowing: a revised master plan was due within thirty days, and a Finding of School Capacity is required before conditional plat. Those gate construction; they do not put the zoning in doubt.

Not yet, and this is the most consequential fact on the page, so we are not going to soften it. The county utilities department stated in the record that it does not currently supply water or wastewater service to these parcels, and that it is unable to immediately provide the necessary sewer service from existing infrastructure. It went further: the necessary Ridge Manor Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion may not be in place when the impacts of the site development occur. The path forward is a water and sewer agreement between the developer and the county. Separately and encouragingly, in March 2026 the county commission awarded the construction contract for the Ridge Manor Water Reclamation Facility expansion. So the plant is being built. The timing of that expansion is, in practical terms, the timing of this community.

Nobody yet. No homebuilder appears anywhere in the record, and no engineer of record is named in the staff report either. The applicant is a limited liability company that shares its name with the project. That is the signature of an entitlement play: get the zoning right, then sell to a builder. On a 108-lot site the eventual buyer is likely to be a regional or production builder rather than a national one, and that builder will almost certainly rename it.

Probably, and you should factor that in. Ville Di Toscana is the name of the landowning company. It is an Italianate name on a 108-lot subdivision in rural Hernando County with no builder attached and no recorded plat. Names like that survive to the entrance sign sometimes and get replaced more often. We track this property by its approval and its location as well as its name, so a rename does not lose you, which is a large part of what the interest list on this page is for.

The approved standards are the only concrete guide, and they describe a compact community. Minimum lot size is 4,950 square feet, which is a deviation the county granted from its usual 6,000. Minimum lot width is 40 feet, and the applicant's own materials describe 45 and 55 foot lots. Maximum building coverage is 51 percent, granted as a deviation from the standard 35 percent, which means the houses will occupy a substantially larger share of their lots than county code normally allows. Setbacks are 20 feet front and rear, 7.5 feet at the sides, with a 20-foot buffer to every perimeter. Beyond that nothing: no floor plans, no square footages, no elevations, no prices, because no builder has been assigned.

On the southwest side of Croom Rital Road, roughly 1,535 feet northwest of Cortez Boulevard, which is State Road 50, in the Ridge Manor area of unincorporated Hernando County. A secondary access to Park Ridge Drive is proposed on the west side. The property sits inside the county's Interstate 75 and State Road 50 planned development overlay district. There are no street addresses or platted lots yet.

The Withlacoochee State Trail, which is the genuine amenity here and one that already exists rather than being promised. It is a long paved rail-trail built on a former railroad corridor, and the Ridge Manor Trailhead and the Croom River Trail Loop are nearby. Trail adjacency is one of very few things a buyer can verify about a community before it is built. What we cannot tell you is whether the community will have a direct connection to it, because no site plan showing that has been published.

Effectively none. The petitioner's own presentation to the county states there was zero opposition at the Planning Commission, and we found no citizen correspondence filed on the case. The commission vote was unanimous. For a rezoning that increases the number of permanent households in a rural area, that is a quiet reception, and it is probably explained by the fact that the alternative on the books was 241 resort rentals.

No. Italianate names are common in Florida development and this one collides with several. Bella Toscana is a vacation-villa community in the Kissimmee area marketed heavily to overseas buyers. Toscana Isles is an active, selling community in Venice on the Gulf coast. There are Tuscany Villages and Villa Toscanas scattered around the state. Separately, and confusingly, there is a community literally named Ridge Manor built by a national builder in Webster, Florida, which is a different place from the Ridge Manor area this community sits in. If what you found has prices or photographs of finished homes, it is one of those.

Schools are an open item by design: a Finding of School Capacity is required before conditional plat, so the capacity test has not been run yet. On fire, because the lots are under 60 feet wide the county requires a fire protection plan at conditional plat, which is a standard requirement for narrow-lot subdivisions. On taxes, this is unincorporated Hernando County land, so a bill would combine county millage, the school board, the water management district and other special districts, with no city millage. No community development district exists for this project, so the recurring cost is more likely to be HOA dues than a CDD assessment. No HOA figure has been published.

No date has been announced, and on this project the honest answer is that it depends on a wastewater plant. The zoning is done. The sewer capacity is not there yet and the expansion that would provide it is under construction. Add a builder, a conditional plat, a school capacity finding and a fire protection plan, and you have the sequence. Treat any date you encounter as a target rather than a commitment.

Join the interest list on this page. We read Hernando County's commission records directly, which is how the failed resort history and the sewer constraint ended up documented here rather than in a listing description.