The Board of County Commissioners held a public hearing on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 6:00 PM to consider multiple comprehensive plan amendments and concurrent rezoning applications. The meeting included five small-scale adoption items, one large-scale transmittal item, and one continuance request. Overall, the board approved four comprehensive plan amendments and three rezoning applications, denied one rezoning recommendation from staff, and transmitted one large-scale amendment to the state for review.
Repacked into the banks to recontour and also to open up the capacity of the canal. Once that is complete, then we come back in either time frame of the job starting to stopping. Either Mother Nature has started to grow grass back through. If that is not the case, then we will actually order sod to be laid down to help ensure that the dirt that's been repacked stays in place. Comprehensive plan amendment public hearing. The Board of County Commissioners will consider the transmittal and adoption of map amendments to the comprehensive plan. The board will also consider applications for rezoning concurrent with related applications for future land use map amendments. Also the applicant for CPA 25-37 has requested a continuance to the April 9th, 2026 comprehensive plan amendment public hearing at 6 p.m. I know uh once the request came in, every effort was made by staff to reach out to those in public record uh notifying them of the continuance. So at this time, can we have a motion to continue? Move to continue. Motion Commissioner Myers, second commissioner uh Miller, please record your vote. Commissioner Colin. Aye. Motion carried six to zero. Okay. So again, uh anyone here for CPA twenty-five-thirty-seven, that's been continued to April 9th. Uh this time um ask the clerk representatives to swear in uh anyone speaking on the following rezoning applications RZ twenty-five dash zero five zero zero, RZ 25-1245, RZ-25-1111, and RZ 25-1281. My apologies, sir. The vote count was five to zero. Please stand and raise your right hand. If you plan on giving testimony tonight, if you can please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes. Thank you. You may be seated. Okay. Uh now I ask Planning Commission staff to introduce the first item on tonight's agenda. Uh good evening, Commissioners. Uh David Hay with your planning commission staff. We have uh five adoption items for with concurrent rezonings and one transmittal of a large scale amendment. Um the first will be a one HC CPA twenty-five-01. It's a comprehensive plan map amendment, and the presenter will be Tyreek Royal. Good evening, Commissioner Sarek Royal, Planning Commission staff. Today I'll be presenting HCCPA to 501 at 2002 West Highway 60. This request is a privately initiated small scale map amendment with approximately 9.5 acres. The request is to change the land use designation from residential one to suburban mix U6 as directed by the Board of County Commissioners on August 14th, 2025. The original privately initiated requests sought a future use designation of Office Commercial 20. The location of the site is in the eastern portion of the unincorporated Hillsborough County. This is in the rural area, the Will Hill Protection area, and not located within the limits of a community plan. This is the aerial photo outlined in pink. Surrounding uses include agricultural uses to the west and south, single family uses to the north and light commercial uses to the east. And here's the east view of the property with the south being site being located to the left. And finally, uh here's the west view of the property, and the south site is being located to the right. The site currently is in the residential one future land use category, which allows for the consideration of agricultural farms, ranches, residential, neighborhood commercial offices, and multi-purpose projects. Commercial uses are subject to locational criteria. The site is approximately 1.7 miles away from urban service area in the public quasi public area. You can see in the southwest is Madara Park. The parcel designated as Office Commercial 20 in red has has had a future land use category designation since at least 1999. The applicant is requesting the change of future land use category from residential one to SMU 6.