Planning Commission finds Energy Industrial Park text amendment consistent, forwards to county commission amid public health concerns

Melissa Linehard, planning commission staff, presented HCCPA 23‑15, a privately initiated text amendment proposing changes to the Energy Industrial Park future land use text for roughly 3,000 acres south of State Road 60. Linehard told commissioners the change would replace the word “northwest” with “north,” delete a limiting phrase referencing “along State Road 60,” and allow some commercial uses to extend east of Turkey Creek out to “beyond 1/2 mile of Turkey Creek.”

The amendment would not change the types of uses already allowed in the Energy Industrial Park category but would shift the boundary where higher‑intensity commercial and industrial uses could locate. Linehard summarized agency review comments, saying the Environmental Protection Commission called out the Sydney Mine sludge ponds Superfund site within the area and that the Hillsborough County Environmental Services Division…