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Commissioners split on proposed 'rural light industrial' land‑use category; statutory 'Live Local' entitlement raises objections
Summary
Planning staff proposed a new Rural Light Industrial future‑land‑use category with PD rezoning to control compatibility; a commissioner objected that the County's 'Live Local' statute could immediately entitle property owners and block the board from applying needed constraints.
Planning commission staff on Dec. 10 presented a draft text amendment to add a Rural Light Industrial future land use category intended to allow limited, low‑impact industrial and warehousing uses in rural parts of unincorporated Hillsborough County while requiring a PD rezoning and site plan for compatibility controls.
"We were proposing this new category to have a 0.25 floor area ratio or a 175,000 square feet of nonresidential, whichever is less," Melissa Leinhard, planning commission…
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