The Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission convened on February 9, 2026, for a Regular Meeting at 3:00 PM and multiple public hearings starting at 5:30 PM. The meeting addressed City of Tampa Comprehensive Plan amendments, Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan amendments, and a City of Tampa redistricting public hearing. The sessions included staff presentations, public testimony, and commissioner deliberations. Key outcomes included approval of several plan amendments and a divided vote on a large-scale rural land use change.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:25 PM.
Welcome to a meeting of your planning commission, the official local planning agency for the cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace, Plan City, and unincorporated Hillsborough County. The Planning Commission provides innovative leadership and long-range vision that contributes to the creation of a thriving, prosperous community that offers opportunity, fairness, and choice in how we live, move, learn, work, and play. For more information about the Planning Commission, please call 813-272-5940. Follow us on social media or visit our website at PlanHillsborough.org. Welcome everybody to the February 9th, 2026 public hearing of the Planning Commission on City of Tampa Comprehensive Plan Amendments. We thank you for attending this meeting. Your comments and participation are encouraged. For those attending in person and wishing to speak on any agenda item, please sign the register at the rear of the room and turn off any devices that may be a distraction. 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The request is to go from a residential 20 future land use category to community mixed use 35. The subject site is located within the South Tampa Planning District as well as the Fair Oaks Manhattan neighborhood. This is an aerial of the subject site and surrounding area with the subject site outlined in yellow. The surrounding area is a mixture of uses, including light commercial office and retail uses to the south and west to the south and west, and single family to the north, east, and directly west, with scattered industrial and two family uses to the east. These are our site photos starting looking directly at the subject site. This is looking south of the subject site at the back entrance of Britain Plaza. This is directly west, showing the single family uh the single family dwelling units to the west along West Euclid Avenue. This is east of the subject site showing the intersection of West Euclid Avenue and South Himes Avenue. This is looking south of the subject site along South Hims Avenue. This is the adopted future land use map with the subject site outlined in black under the designated designated under the residential 20 future land use category. To the north and east of the site is the residential 10 category. South is community commercial 35 with residential 20, community mixed use 35 along West Euclid and South Himes Avenue, including adopted TACPA 2512 located to the west. This is the proposed future land use map showing the site under the proposed community mixed use 35 designation. Under the adopted future land use of residential 20, the site may be considered for four dwelling units. The site could be considered for just over 6,000 square feet of neighborhood serving commercial uses. Under the proposed community mixed use 35 designation, the site may be considered for eight residential development units and just over 25,000 square feet of commercial uses. The proposed CMU 35 designation would result in the increase of residential density and commercial intensity, as well as introduce the possibility of CG uses to the subject site. We would also like to note that our we would this application was sent to our partner agencies, and there were no objections to the request. Policies that were considered taken into consideration when evaluating this amendment included in field development policies. And this concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions. Alright, we didn't have anyone sign up in the public comment for this one. Oh, sorry, does the applicant have a presentation? Jumping ahead. I know there's a full room tonight. Um I think Megan set this up perfectly. This is right here at the corner of Euclid and Himes. As you can see, this is directly adjacent to Britain Plaza, which is obviously a commercial use. Over time, a lot of these uses along the southern portion of Euclid Avenue have transitioned from single-family residential to other commercial uses, including office and just general commercial. This is the location of the property. Again, this is at the corner of Himes and Euclid. You can see it here from the corner. Again, the overview of the request says this is just adjacent to Britain Plaza. This is currently operating as a law office.