Polk County plans a water storage facility on Holly Hill Road near Davenport

Polk County wants to build a potable water production, treatment, storage and distribution facility on roughly 9.91 acres east of Holly Hill Road and Sugarwood Street, north of Davenport and Haines City. The plan centers on a 1.25-million-gallon ground storage tank as part of what records call the Northeast PRWC receiving facility.

To make it happen, the county sought two approvals. The first, a Land Development Code subdistrict map change from Institutional-1X to Institutional-2X, was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners on May 5, 2026. The second, a conditional use for a Class III utility, passed the Planning Commission on May 6, 2026. No members of the public spoke against either request at the hearings.

The applicant is Polk County itself — Facilities Management on the district change and Polk County Utilities on the conditional use — with the county listed as the property owner.