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Board transmits four urban service area expansions amid residents’ resistance over roads and school capacity
Summary
The Board voted to transmit four privately initiated urban service area expansions and matching map amendments (multiple parcels in Waimama/Balm/Baum areas) after hearing repeated neighborhood opposition over infrastructure, school capacity and compatibility with community plans. Most motions carried 6–1 or 7–0.
Hillsborough County planning staff presented four privately initiated amendments to expand the urban service area and to change future land use on parcels in the Waimama/Balm/Baum areas. The text and map amendments would bring individual parcels (ranging in size, examples: ~370 acres and ~272.3 acres) into the urban service area and change some parcels from Residential Plan‑2 to Residential 4 — effectively increasing theoretical housing capacity in those areas.
Applicants said utilities, frontage and some roadway…
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