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Planning commission: most new Tampa residents, jobs will remain outside coastal high-hazard area
Summary
Planning commission staff presented georeferenced population and jobs projections showing continued growth outside Florida's coastal high-hazard area; commissioners pressed for land-use, evacuation and insurance planning tied to that trend.
Yasir Gonzalez, lead of the Planning Commission data shop, told the Tampa City Council workshop that new georeferenced models show the city will add tens of thousands of people and jobs by 2050 but that most of that growth will occur outside the state-defined Coastal High Hazard Area.
Gonzalez said roughly 67,000 residents now live inside the coastal hazard area and projected that number could rise to about 96,000 by 2050. He said roughly one in four new residents and about one-quarter of new jobs will be located within the coastal area; three out of four new…
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