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Board of County Commissioners: CPA Public Hearing - 06.10.26

Hillsborough County, FL Board of County Commissioners May 27, 2026 17 minutes
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The future land use categories on this map include Innovation Corridor Mixed Use 35 and Office Commercial 20 to the south and Residential 6 to the east. Next slide, please. The applicant is proposing to amend the future land use category to Residential 35, which allows 35 dwelling units per gross acre or maximum for area ratio of 1.0. The Res. 35 designation allows for the consideration of agricultural, residential, neighborhood commercial, office uses, multi-purpose projects, and mixed use developments. Non-residential uses, not part of a vertically integrated building, shall meet established locational criteria. Next slide, please. Next are the impacts as far as existing conditions. Currently under Res. 20, the site could consider up to 276 dwelling units or 451,826 square feet of non-residential uses. Under the proposed Res. 35 designation, the site could consider up to 484 dwelling units or 602,434 square feet of non-residential uses. The proposed amendment will result in the increase in development potential by allowing higher residential density and non-residential intensity. Next slide, please. And this concludes my presentation for HCCPA 2616. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much. I don't see anyone in the queue to speak. Okay. Thank you. All right. We have three items left, and they are independent applications, but there's a relationship among them that Lily will describe. She's item A9. Lillianne Linehan will present the first item. Again, good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners. Lillianne Linehan, planning commission staff. Here to present HCCPA 2618, located at Causeway Boulevard, and this is sub-area A. This request comes from the Florida State University Future Land Use Map Study that was conducted in 2024. As part of this future land use section update, planning commission staff engaged with students in an FSU capstone class to study four different areas of unincorporated Hillsborough County, where there's been historical and recent development pressure, as well as areas that were identified as needing to be researched based upon current development trends. These areas included subsets of the university area, the Port of Tampa, Brandon Crossings, and Causeway Boulevard. This effort is part of that study and the recommendations on next steps. And due to the size and the varying recommendations in the Causeway Boulevard study area, staff decided to break down the study area into three separate requests. And this will be the first of three total plan amendments being publicly initiated for this area. This request for this portion of the study area is to go from the currently adopted future land use category of residential six to neighborhood mixed use six. And this map amendment is large in scale and approximately 73.12 acres. This is the general location map. This amendment is part of the April 2026 cycle of amendments. This is within the urban service area and within the limits of the Palm River Progress Community Plan. Additionally, a portion of this application is located within the coastal high hazard area. This map shows the location of all three publicly initiated amendments along Causeway Boulevard with 26.18, which is this current amendment outlined in purple. 26.19 is outlined in green. And 26.20 is outlined in dark. Here is an aerial of the site for 26.18. The site is outlined in pink. The site is south of Causeway Boulevard and is bound by 54th Street to the west and extends to 76th Street to the east. Existing land uses in the site area include residential, vacant, public, quasi-public institutional uses. And the uses to the north of the site along Causeway Boulevard are comprised of mainly industrial and commercial uses. And to the south of the site is mainly single-family residential uses. Currently, the featured land use designation is residential 6. The residential 6 category allows for a maximum of six dwelling units per gross acre and a maximum floor area ratio of 0.25. The residential 6 designation allows for the consideration of agricultural, residential, neighborhood commercial, office uses, multi-purpose projects, and mixed use development. The site is bordered by office commercial 20 to the north and east directly along Causeway Boulevard, with some light industrial along the western edge of the site. And south of the site is residential 6. It's proposed to change the featured land use category to neighborhood mixed use 6. Neighborhood mixed use 6 category allows for a maximum of six dwelling units per gross acre and a maximum floor area ratio of 0.25 for neighborhood commercial uses. While offices, research, corporate parks, multi-purpose, and mixed use projects may achieve a maximum floor area ratio of 0.35. This designation allows for the consideration of agricultural, residential, neighborhood commercial, office uses, research, corporate park uses, multi-purpose, and cluster residential and or mixed use projects. Under the existing conditions, with the residential 6 designation, the site can be considered for a maximum of 438 dwelling units or 796,276 square feet of non-residential uses. Under the proposed feature land use designation of neighborhood mixed use 6, the site can be considered for a maximum of 438 dwelling units or approximately 1,100,000 square feet of non-residential uses. The proposed amendment would allow for an increase in the allowable range of uses and the maximum allowable intensity of specific uses with no increase in density. This concludes my presentation for 26-18, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. And thank you so much. I don't see any commissioners that have their hand up. Okay. All right. Well, the next item will be presented by me. Good afternoon. If HTV wouldn't mind sharing this one, thank you so much. Good afternoon, everyone. Melissa Leinhardt, Planning Commission staff. I'm here to present to you item HC CPA 26-19, which is Causeway Boulevard sub-area B. Next slide, please. This request is publicly initiated. It's small in scale at approximately 21.31 acres in size. As Ms. Leinhardt previously mentioned in her presentation on the last item, the impetus behind this request is the Florida State University Future Land Use Map Study that was conducted in the second half of 2024. This is the second of three total plan amendments being publicly initiated for this area. And this particular request is for the portion of the study area to go from the currently adopted future land use category of residential nine to community mixed use 12. Next slide, please. This request is part of the April 2026 cycle of plan amendments. The site is located within the urban service area. It is also located within the limits of the Palm River Progress Village Community Plan. Next slide, please. This is an aerial of the site with the site outlined in pink. You can see that the site is separated by a parcel. The outlined in pink areas are the residential nine that I mentioned, and the area between was omitted from the plan amendment because that already has a residential 20 designation. So this is an aerial map showing the site along the north side of Causeway Boulevard. 78th Street is the eastern limit and 66th is the western limit, again, in the Palm River area. Along this portion of Causeway Boulevard, the uses are generally characterized as commercial in nature with various auto sales, auto repair businesses. They're interspersed with some vacant properties, offices, open storage uses. To the east of 86th Street, so beyond the subject site, just off the aerial is the Coca-Cola plant to orient yourself. And to the north of the subject property, there are mostly single-family residential lots. Next slide, please. This slide shows the adopted future land use categories in the area with the site outlined in black. The site, again, is residential nine, which allows for the consideration of agricultural uses, residential, neighborhood commercial, office uses, multipurpose projects, and mixed-use development. The maximum density that can be considered is up to nine dwelling units per gross acre. And the maximum intensity in the residential nine category is a 0.05 or 175,000 square feet, whichever is less intense. In addition, non-residential development that exceeds a 0.35 floor area ratio must be for office or residential support uses like schools or churches. There's a portion in between the two subject properties that I mentioned that is residential 20, as well as more residential 20 to the east of 78th Street. Further north, the area is also res nine, like the subject property is today, and again, characterized by residential development. To the south of causeway in this area, we see office commercial 20, which is one of our most intensive future land use categories for those parcels that are mainly fronting to the south directly onto causeway. And then those categories transition to a bit lower intensity and density with residential six and residential nine as you travel further southward. There's also suburban mixed-use six to the south, as well as a small portion of public and quasi-public. The request to change the subject from – sorry, next slide, please. The request is to change the subject property from residential nine to community mixed-use 12, which is represented by that pink color that you see. And that would better reflect the uses that are currently in the area and that tend to be more intensive in this causeway boulevard area. The community mixed-use 12 future land use category would allow for the consideration of up to 12 dwelling units per gross acre or up to a 0.5 floor area ratio. The CMU 12 category also allows for the consideration of agricultural, residential, commercial uses, office uses, research corporate park uses, light industrial, and or mixed-use projects. Next slide, please. As far as the impacts are concerned, currently under the residential nine designation, the site may be considered for up to 191 dwelling units or 464,000 square feet of non-residential uses. With a designation of community mixed-use 12, the site could be developed with up to 255 dwelling units, with the non-residential square footage would not change. The proposed change would allow for an increase in development potential by allowing higher residential density, an increase in the range of commercial uses, and would also introduce the potential of light industrial uses. Next slide, please. That concludes my presentation, and I'm here for any questions that you all may have. Thank you, Melissa. I don't see anyone in the queue, so we will go to A11. Yes, that's the last item, and that will be presented by Jillian Massey. Thank you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is Jillian Massey with planning commission staff. I'm here to present HCCPA 26-20, which is the third and final of the three publicly initiated amendments on Causeway Boulevard, and we're calling this sub-area C. This request is publicly initiated by us as planning commission staff. This particular amendment area is large in scale at approximately 101 acres. As previously mentioned, the rationale behind this request is the FSU future land use map study that was conducted in 2024, and as I mentioned, this is the third of three total plan amendments being initiated for this area. The request for this portion of the area is to go from the currently adopted future land use category of residential 9 to residential 20. This request is part of the April 2026 cycle of plan amendments. It's located in the urban service area and within the limits of the Palm River Progress Village Community Plan. This is an aerial site, aerial map of the site outlined in pink. The site's located along portions of both the north and south sides of Causeway Boulevard between 78th Street and U.S. Highway 301 in the Palm River area. Along this portion of Causeway, the uses are generally characterized as commercial and light industrial nature with various auto repair businesses, some vacant properties, offices, and storage uses. There are single-family residential homes within the vicinity of this area, both further north and south off of Causeway. And a Coca-Cola shipping and receiving area, which is designated as Urban Mixed Juice 20 on the map, it directly abuts a portion of the northern project boundary. This slide shows the adopted future land use categories in the area, with this particular site being designated as residential 9. Residential 9 allows for the consideration of agriculture, residential, neighborhood commercial, office uses, multipurpose projects, and mixed-use developments. The maximum density that can be considered in the residential 9 is 9 dwelling units per gross acre. And the maximum intensity for non-residential development is up to 0.50 floor area ratio, or 175,000 square feet, whichever is less intense. In addition, non-residential development that exceeds 0.35 floor area ratio must be for office or residential support uses. There's a portion between the two subject property areas that's designated as residential 20 on the map, which is that dark brown color. Further north of the area, the subject site is residential 9, and is characterized mainly by single-family residential development. To the south of Causeway, we see office commercial 20, which is the bright red. And those parcels are mainly fronting along Causeway with a transition to residential 9 and probably further south. There's also community mixed-use 12 and urban mixed-use 12 towards the eastern end of this project boundary. And those are located closer to U.S. Highway 301. The request is to change the subject property from residential 9 to residential 20, which is the dark brown color that you see on the map. Residential 20 allows for the same uses that can be considered in residential 9, but it just increases the development potential by increasing the potential density from 9 dwelling units per gross acre to up to 20 dwelling units per gross acre. And with the non-residential intensity, it would go from that 0.50 floor area ratio up to the 0.75 floor area ratio. The proposed change is to better reflect the intensity and density that are currently seen in this area, and that tend to be more intensive in the Causeway Boulevard corridor. As far as impacts are concerned, currently under the residential 9 designation, the site can be considered for up to 916 dwelling units or approximately 2.2 million square feet of non-residential uses. With the proposed residential 20, the site could be considered for up to 2,037 dwelling units or approximately 3.3 million square feet of non-residential uses. And overall, the proposed change would allow for an increase in development potential by allowing higher residential density and greater commercial intensity. And that concludes this presentation, and I'd be glad to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. I don't see anyone in the Commission with any questions. So, this concludes the workshop for the Comprehensive Plan Amendments. Thanks, everyone, and continue to enjoy your day. Thank you. Thank you.