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Planning Commission approves removing public‑access requirement from ‘Planned Environmental Community’ policy after DEP objects
Summary
Commission staff recommended — and commissioners found consistent — a privately initiated text amendment deleting Policy 47.18 (a public‑access requirement) from the Planned Environmental Community future land use category following Florida DEP park planning concerns about impacts to the Hillsborough River State Park.
Melissa Linehard presented HCCPA 24‑32, a privately initiated text amendment seeking deletion of Policy 47.18 in the future land use element for the Planned Environmental Community (PEC) 1/2 category. The PEC category applies to roughly 1,954 acres west of U.S. 301 near the Pasco County border and was adopted to allow increased density in rural areas that can be served by public utilities while providing environmental protections.
Policy 47.18, as written, required planned developments in the PEC category to provide public access to portions…
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