Richland Communities is prepping 85 acres on the Osceola-Polk County line for a new 392-lot subdivision.
Osceola County’s Development Review Committee will consider a rezoning request and preliminary subdivision plan for Sedona Ridge Tuesday morning. Located on Sand Mine Road, the property is in the heart of the Four Corners submarket. The new Commercial Tourist zoning conforms with the property’s underlying land use, and both cases are on the DRC’s consent agenda with staff recommendations for approval.
Richland has owned the 181-acre site for over a decade and began master-planning the site in 2022. The Sedona property includes 95.2 acres in Polk and 85.4 acres in Osceola. Located just east of U.S. 27, it’s about 5 miles north of the Interstate 4 interchange and 3 miles south of U.S. 192. The land is next to Polk’s K-8 Citrus Ridge Academy and surrounded by existing single-family and vacation home communities, including Pulte Homes‘ Windsor Island Resort and Mattamy‘s Solara Resort in Osceola County.
The company’s development plan called for single-family homes on the Osceola half of the property and a mix of multifamily and build-to-rent housing on the Polk County side. Richland Capital, the commercial development arm for Richland, had previously filed plans in Polk County for a 329-unit apartment complex but later withdrew them.
The Osceola plan would divide the property into two phases, bisecting it with a new East-West road that extends to the Polk County property. There is no connection to the east because Solara Resort is a private, gated resort. The entrance road would align with Zaballina Place, the entrance road for phase 4 of Solara Resort on the north side of Sand Mine Road. The developer would be required to extend Student Drive as a two-lane, divided framework road along the southern boundary from its dead end at Mattamy’s Soleil at Westside subdivision to the Polk County line.
The plan from Rj Whidden & Associates calls for 179 lots in phase 1 and 213 in phase 2. Each phase would have a waterfront amenity, with a pool and cabana in phase 1 and a neighborhood park and playground in phase 2. There are four different product types: 50-foot front-loaded lots (265 units); 34-foot rear-loaded bungalows (63 units) with some facing the street and others facing a mew or linear park; and 22-foot rear-loaded townhomes (64 units).
Sedona Ridge is one of two major land holdings Richland Communities has in Osceola County. The other is a sprawling 3,229-acre cattle ranch in the county’s South Lake Toho mixed-use district. Richland bought the ranch in 2024 for $110 million as a long-term investment. It has entitlements for nearly 6,500 homes and a special district with 2.8 million square feet of industrial.
Richmond also has multiple projects in the development pipeline in Lake County, including Sugarloaf Mountain, Minneola Ridge, Shepherds’ Landing and Wellness Way.
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