August 2009 Cycle

Plan Amendment 09-05

This privately initiated map amendment located in the vicinity of North Rocky Point Drive East and Gennaker Drive proposes a land use change to 4.4 acres from Medium Density Residential (R-35) to Community Mixed Use – 35.

Plan Amendment 09-06

The Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission is requesting text amendments to the City of Tampa’s Comprehensive Plan on goals, policies, objectives and development regulations relating to Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the City of Tampa. The proposed text amendment will also add text in the Tampa Comprehensive Plan to include the vision statement, goals and strategies for Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Tampa.

Plan Amendment 09-07

This plan-text amendment is initiated by the City of Tampa. The primary purpose of the amendment is to incorporate goals, objectives and policies on form-based design planning into the Tampa Comprehensive Plan to implement “The Greater Seminole Heights Vision Plan”. The Tampa Comprehensive Plan establishes policies calling for the development of form-based community plans and subsequent regulating plans.

Plan Amendment 09-08

The City of Tampa requests for a plan-map amendment to implement “The Greater Seminole Heights Vision Plan.” This plan-map amendment request is considered along with a comprehensive plan-text amendment (CPA 09-07) to incorporate “The Greater Seminole Heights Vision Plan” into the Tampa Comprehensive Plan.

Plan Amendment 09-09

This plan-text amendment is initiated by the City of Tampa. The primary purpose of the text amendment is to incorporate goals, objectives and policies relating to the Courtney Campbell Scenic Highway Corridor into the Tampa Comprehensive Plan.

Plan Amendment 09-10

This is a City of Tampa initiated plan amendment involving 41.81 acres of selected public and private land in the Central Park Community Redevelopment Area (CRA). The request involves a change in the City of Tampa’s Comprehensive Plan Map from Central Business District-CBD, Regional-Mixed Use–100 (RMU-100), Community-Mixed Use-35 (CMU-35) and High Density Residential-83 (R-83) to Urban-Mixed Use-60 (UMU-60) and Recreational/Open Space (R/OS). Central Park CRA is located in the Central Tampa Planning District.

Plan Amendment 09-11

As required by the Florida Communities Trust's Parks grant program, a change to the most restrictive land use category is required as a condition for the acquisition of this site which is currently owned by the City of Tampa. Therefore, the City of Tampa is requesting a 47.17-acre parcel to be amended from Low Density Suburban Neighborhood (R-6) to Recreational/Open Space (R-OS). The primary purpose of this public-initiated plan amendment request is to promote outdoor recreation and natural resource protection needs identified in the City of Tampa’s comprehensive plan.

Plan Amendment 09-12

The Capital Improvements Element of the comprehensive plan delineates the funding priorities guiding the development of public activities. Policy 1.1.2 provides the following ranking order for the improvements of public facilities: 1) Replacements or repairs of facilities which contribute to achieving or maintaining adopted Level of Service standards; 2) New facilities that reduce or eliminate deficiencies for existing demand; and 3) New facilities to maintain standards  for new growth.