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Commissioners direct staff to pursue rule changes after hearing on sewer connection requirement in urban service area
Summary
Board directed staff to prepare amendments and hold public hearings after a staff report showed code changes since 2020 now require sewer hookups for subdivisions in the urban service area, a rule residents and commissioners said can create hardship for small lot splits.
Hillsborough County commissioners voted unanimously June 10 to ask staff to prepare ordinance language and schedule public hearings to address hardships caused by current land development code requirements that require connection to public wastewater in the urban service area.
Development Services staff reported that a 2020 code amendment removed prior exceptions that had allowed small subdivisions or certain nonresidential conversions to avoid connection when a gravity sewer line was not adjacent to the parcel. Staff said…
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