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Hillsborough planning staff brief commissioners on multiple land‑use map amendments
Summary
Planning Commission staff on Dec. 10 presented a package of small‑ and large‑scale comprehensive‑plan map and text amendments — including requests to raise residential density and create a rural light‑industrial category — and continued one item to January for further review.
Planning Commission staff on Dec. 10, 2025, briefed county commissioners on a slate of comprehensive‑plan amendments ranging from small‑scale map changes to a large‑acreage master plan amendment. No formal votes were taken; one application was continued to the January plan amendment cycle.
The morning workshop opened with an administrative update from Planning Commission staff, who said HCCPA 25‑32 (item A8) was continued to the January cycle. Staff then presented HDCPA 2501 (2002 W. Highway 60), a privately initiated 9.5‑acre small‑scale amendment proposing a change from Residential 1 to Suburban Mixed Use 6 (SMU‑6). Staff said the amendment would raise residential density from 1 dwelling unit per gross acre to 6 du/acre and increase nonresidential intensity from roughly a 0.25 FAR (~103,000 sq. ft.) to a 0.5 FAR (~206,000 sq. ft.). "The change from Residential 1 to Suburban SMU‑6 would allow for an increase in development by allowing significantly higher residential density, greater commercial intensity," a planning presenter said.
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