Hillsborough County planning staff brief commission on 14 map and text amendments; one item continued to January
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Planning commission staff presented 14 small- and large-scale comprehensive-plan map and text amendments covering parts of eastern and south Hillsborough County; staff described acreage, density and FAR changes for each item, one item (HCCPA 25-32) was continued to January and no formal votes were taken.
Planning commission staff on Dec. 10 briefed the Hillsborough County Planning Commission on 14 proposed comprehensive-plan map and text amendments spanning eastern and southern unincorporated county, including several urban-service-area expansions and requests to increase residential density or commercial intensity.
Eric Coyle, planning commission staff, opened presentations with H D C P A 2501 (2002 W. Highway 60), a privately initiated small-scale request of about 9.5 acres to change the future land use from Residential 1 to Suburban Mixed Use (SMU 6). "The change from Residential 1 to Suburban MU 6 would allow for an increase in development by allowing significantly higher residential density," Coyle said, noting the proposal would increase potential density from 1 dwelling unit per gross acre to 6 units per gross acre and roughly double nonresidential potential from about 103,000 to about 206,000 square feet.
Staff also reviewed a Board-directed text amendment (HCCPA 25-26) renaming the South Shore Area Wide Systems Plan to the South Hillsborough County Plan and updating cross-references in related community plans, including the Ruskin, Riverview, Apollo Beach and Gibsonton community plans. Victoria Duran described the rename as editorial and said it would "not affect the intent of policy."
Several items seek urban-service-area expansions and residential density increases: Lillian Lenahan presented paired proposals (HCCPA 25-27 and 25-28) that would bring about 19.94 acres each into the urban service area and change affected tracts toward Residential 4. Willow Michie presented small-scale requests in Ruskin (HCCPA 25-33) and W. Waters Ave. (HCCPA 25-34) that would raise residential potential in those sites (for example, a change to Residential 12 could increase potential dwellings on a ~19.5-acre site from about 117 units to about 234 units).
Other private requests would increase commercial or office intensity. David Hay described HCCPA 25-30 (Ruskin) seeking Office Commercial 20 and Tyreke/Tyrique Royal presented HCCPA 25-31 proposing a change from Residential 1 to Light Industrial that would eliminate residential density and increase FAR (staff cited an approximate FAR increase from 0.25, ~48,000 sq ft, to 0.75, ~145,000 sq ft).
Jillian Massey presented a large-scale amendment (HCCPA 25-37) of nearly 7,944 acres proposing multiple reclassifications to a planned environmental community that would allow consideration of new residential and nonresidential potential but would be subject to stringent environmentally sensitive design criteria and required connections to water and wastewater utilities. Staff cautioned some large square-footage figures are gross calculations and do not account for wetlands, preservation or site constraints.
In policy work, planning staff proposed a new Rural Light Industrial future land use category (HCCPA 25-29). Melissa Leinhard described the category as intended to allow limited light industrial uses compatible with rural residential patterns—examples include small-scale manufacturing, fabrication and warehousing—subject to PD rezoning and compatibility controls. One commissioner responded that any new category could trigger entitlement provisions under the County's "Live Local" law and said the board should resolve that statute's implications before pursuing such entitlements.
No formal votes were taken during the workshop; staff said they would return with consistency findings and additional detail on items the commission requested. The workshop adjourned after staff concluded presentations.
