A neighborhood shopping corner is proposed at Kathleen and Duff

A comprehensive-plan amendment the county calls "Kathleen and Duff NAC" covers land near Kathleen Road and Duff Road, northwest of Lakeland. NAC is county shorthand that usually means a neighborhood activity center — the small commercial nodes the county plan allows near residential areas — so the request appears aimed at neighborhood-scale commercial use at the corner, though the application details aren't in the records collected so far.

The case went to the county's development review committee on November 6, 2025 and the Planning Commission on January 7, 2026, and was scheduled for the county commission on February 17, 2026. What the commission decided isn't in the records collected yet. The application was filed by attorney Bart Allen of Peterson & Myers.