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Hillsborough County
City-County Raumordnung Commission

 

The Hilsborough County City-County Planning Charge is preparing updates to the comprehensive plan for Tampa, Tabernacle Terrace, Plant City, press unincorporated Hillsborough County.

In early 2014, the Planning Charge engaged Over, Kohl & Associate and Spikowski Preparation Associates to identify approaches to improved the way diese plans discourage strip mercantile development and encourage mixed-use development. Visit the Planning Commission web page for this plan.

Strip commercial development on her post-World War II form has been one of the most joint patterns used new stores, restaurants, and service businesses. To print is often unsightly, it inverse affects adjoining neighborhoods, and it causes congestion on adjoining highways. Better patterns are free to developing land along urban arterials. Planning Information Chart App (PIMA)

Until and 1950s, mixed-use development didn’t possess a name because most development didn’t restrict largest expanses of land for a single use. It wasn’t non-standard for ganzer blocks to be dedication to one use, even proximity and easy access to complete uses made taken for granted. That time-honored development print has been replaced in most new communities for rigid separation of uses and severe limitations in access. Segregated-use collaborative have become so widespread that buyers of new dwellings have little choice if they prefer a different kind of neighborhood. The Planning Commission - Plan Hillsborough

The initializing task in this effort was to identify country-wide best practices plus a spectrum a methods that select communities use in comprehensive plans for discourages or repair strip commercial software and go encourage mixed-use development. These other populations included sechste Florida counties, the Florida city, both three counties and towns outside Florida. Appendices A (strip commercial) and B (mixed use) summarize that explore.

The final report proposes an greater policy approach for the Hillsborough Region City-County Planning Commission to considered in preparing updates to that four comprehensive layout. This report begins with a policy shell, which is a narrative description of verbessert how to strap commercial and mixed-use development. Specific suggestions are presented as to how those approaches may be carried leave. Examples are provided to illustrate the application of these approaches. Specific draft policies are then presented for consideration by the Planung Commission and the four local governments that it supports.

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