Orlando-based Maury L. Carter & Associates has asked Mascotte -- a city of about 5,000 residents -- to annex two properties on its north side, according to city records. A 1,300-acre tract touches County Road 33 to the east and Austin Merritt Road to the north. A second 285 acre tract is along Tuscanooga Road west of Mascotte.

The Florida State Baptist Missionary Foundation Inc. also is asking the city to annex 265 acres east of C.R. 33. City Manager Marge Strausbaugh said that property -- a Baptist youth camp -- could help to bring Mascotte closer to even more land that the city could annex later.

"There is another 400 acres north of the youth camp," Strausbaugh said.

The huge properties would be the latest of several massive expansions for Mascotte, which for years remained outside the influence of south Lake's rapid growth, in part because the state Department of Community Affairs would not allow the city to approve any large communities without first updating its comprehensive-development plans.

Last year, Mascotte annexed nearly 4 square miles of land for up to 454 homes proposed in the Tuscanooga development near C.R. 33 and Tuscanooga Road. Other property owners also jumped in.

Mascotte and state planners spent months wrangling over a proposal to overhaul the city's comp plan. But in July the state complied with a deal, which also included proposals for 15 new residential projects targeted for about 4,000 future homes. Those developments alone would triple Mascotte's population.

To accommodate the growth, the city is expanding its water utilities. Officials also are working on plans for their first wastewater-treatment plant, which could be built in two years.

The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the civic center, 121 N. Sunset Ave.