Good evening and welcome to the May 14, 2026, Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners Comprehensive Plan Amendment Public Hearing.

The Board of County Commissioners will consider the transmital and adoption of amendments to the comprehensive plan.

The board will also consider applications for rezoning, which which will be uh considered concurrently with related applications for a future land use map amendments.

Before I get started, I want to read in the record from Commissioner Gwynn Myers.

Uh please ensure this memo regarding my late arrivals rendered the record due to another commitment.

So with that, um first item uh the applicant for CPA twenty six oh five and CPA twenty six oh six has requested a continuance to the June eleventh, two thousand twenty-six CPA public hearing at six PM.

Uh can we have a motion on that?

So motion commissioner bowls, second commissioner uh cohen.

Please record your vote.

Motion carried six to one or six to zero.

Okay.

Uh this time uh clerk to swear on anyone that's planning on speaking to tonight's rezoning applications, RZ twenty-six-ero zero seven zero and rz twenty-five- zero nine three nine.

Please stand and raise your right hand.

Do you swear our affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Thank you.

Okay.

Uh, Planning Commission, please introduce first item.

Yes, good evening.

Item A one will be presented by Miss Victoria Durant.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Victoria Duran, Planning Commission staff.

Today we'll be presenting HCCPA twenty-five-26, a text amendment to the South Hillsboro County Plan, currently known as the South Shore Area Wide Systems Plan.

For some quick background, the South Shore Area Wide Systems Plan was originally adopted in September of two thousand and three and updated in September of two thousand and fifteen.

As part of this text amendment, all sections and elements referencing community plans within the comprehensive plan were reviewed.

Affected policy was only found within the livable communities element, and the community plan shown on this slide will be updated to reflect the new name.

Also, the proposed name change will not affect the intent of policy.

Before I move on, I would like to mention that no comments were received from reviewing agencies or from any state agencies.

The planning commission found the proposed amendment consistent with the objectives and policies found on this slide.

The amendment aligns with the future land use and intergovernmental coordination elements of the comprehensive plan by supporting community planning, coordination, and consistency across adopted plans.

The planning commission recommends that the proposed text amendment be found consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of the unincorporated Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan.

This concludes my presentation, and I am available for any questions.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

This is a public hearing.

Anyone like to speak to this item?

Seeing none, can we have a motion?

Move approval.

Second motion, Commissioner Cohen Send Commissioner Wolstool.

Please record your vote on A1.

Motion carries six to zero.

A two.

Thank you.

Item A2 will be presented by me.

For the record, Melissa Linehard Planning Commission staff.

Um this is HCCPA 25-29.

Um, regarding this item, which is the creation of a new future land use category.

Um, a little bit of a background.

There was a trend in plan amendments to suburban mixed use six and office commercial 20 future land use categories in the rural area over the last couple of years.

These categories would allow for a density and sometimes an intensity that's not supported by our adopted policies in the comprehensive plan.

Um, some of those policies include our rural area policies, the transition of use policies, um, compatibility issues, and also there were conflicts with some community plans.

Um, staff was directed by the Board of County Commissioners to look into this issue and try to find a solution.

Uh, this item is publicly initiated.

It is part of the October cycle of plan amendments.

Again, this is a text amendment to add a new future land use category called rural light commercial.

I'm sorry, rural light industrial, um, and also will add a definition of limited light industrial uses to the definition section.

There was research as part of this.

Um, three major efforts were undertaken by staff.

Effort one was a comparison of research with nearby and similar counties.

Um, effort two included an analysis of unincorporated Hillsborough County plan amendments requesting one of those four categories you see on the slide.

Um, effort three was an analysis of uses that are allowed in the commercial intensive zoning district, but not allowed in the neighborhood surveying categories of commercial neighborhood and commercial general.