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Hillsborough County commissioners adopt five Land Development Code text amendments
Summary
The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously May 8 to adopt five text amendments to the county Land Development Code, including rules on outdoor storage of recreational vehicles, recognition of nonconforming lot splits, and clarification of maximum building height measurement.
Hillsborough County commissioners adopted five amendments to the county Land Development Code (LDC) after the close of the second public hearing May 8, voting 7-0 to approve each item.
The changes include: permitting outdoor storage of recreational vehicles, private pleasure craft and utility trailers through planned development rezoning (LDC-25-03-99); a procedure to recognize nonconforming lot splits completed after the comprehensive plan adoption on July 26, 1989 (LDC-25-04-00); an option for applicants to have rezoning applications heard concurrently with related comprehensive plan amendments (LDC-25-04-01); a revised definition to align the county’s maximum building height measurement with the Florida Building Code (LDC-25-04-02); and administrative modifications to plan development approvals including limited site-plan adjustments and conversion of mobile home units to conventional single-family units (LDC-25-04-04).
Planning staff told the board there were no changes to the text since the first public hearing and that the Planning Commission had found the items consistent where applicable. After asking whether any members of the public wished to speak, the board conducted “straw votes” or motions and recorded 7-0 tallies for each amendment and then voted 7-0 to adopt the ordinance that implements the package.
The adopted language for the height definition aligns county measurement with the Florida Building Code, changing the county’s previous definition that measured vertical distance from the lowest proposed finished grade to the highest point of the structure. The planned-development storage allowance for recreational vehicles and trailers does not itself rezone property; it permits those uses only when a developer elects the planned-development rezoning process.
County staff and commissioners confirmed the changes reflected no substantive edits from the first public hearing and that development services and planning staff would be available to answer follow-up questions from the public or applicants.
The vote immediately followed a separate public hearing on comprehensive plan amendments and the commission recessed the LDC hearing upon adoption of the ordinance.
Commissioners recorded unanimous support on the record for each text amendment, and staff said the changes will be incorporated into the public code materials and the county’s LDC update records.
