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Executive director: Plant City comp‑plan update set for 2026; recent adopted plan amendments noted
Summary
Executive Director Melissa Zornita updated commissioners on outreach and program work: Plant City comprehensive‑plan update scheduled to start in 2026, recent presentations to Temple Terrace and the county charter review board, and recent plan‑amendment actions by the Board of County Commissioners and city councils.
Melissa Zornita, executive director of the Hillsborough County City‑County Planning Commission, reviewed highlights of the commission’s recent work at the May 12, 2025 meeting and flagged several near‑term projects including the Plant City comprehensive plan update and a series of plan amendment actions taken by local governments.
The report matters because it outlines the commission’s workload, intergovernmental coordination and where staff engagement will focus in coming months.
Zornita said the commission anticipates beginning work on the Plant City comprehensive plan update in 2026 and described a scoping meeting staff held with Plant City department heads on April 18. “We are in our work program are anticipating starting work on their update of their comprehensive plan in 2026,” Zornita said. She also noted the commission made a presentation to the Temple Terrace City Council about that city’s upcoming update process and participated in Temple Terrace’s centennial celebration, where staff promoted a TPO multimodal trail survey.
Zornita said she will appear before the county charter review board with county development‑services staff to explain the planning commission’s role and the county’s community plans, and noted staff participation in a Tampa Bay Development podcast and a Tampa Bay Times panel on growth and sustainability.
On recent plan‑amendment actions, Zornita summarized that the Board of County Commissioners adopted large‑scale amendments expanding the urban service area in Wimauma and Balm and transmitted certain plan amendments (for example, Lutz Lake Fern Road and the Suncoast Parkway parcels) to the state for review. She said the board adopted a small‑scale plan amendment on Martin Luther King Boulevard tied to an automotive repair use; staff and the planning commission had found that amendment inconsistent but the board adopted it. In the city of Tampa, she said a Moody Avenue amendment was adopted on first reading and a South Howard Avenue amendment was also adopted.
Zornita closed by noting staff would continue to attend stakeholder meetings and hearings and welcomed questions from commissioners. Her report was informational; no action was requested of the planning commission.
