for citizens who care about Tampa Bay's growth management, transportation & environment
Please send a letter to oppose this zoning change (see sample letter & hearing dates below) On a wet clump of mangroves & sandbars in Tampa Bay, next to E.G. Simmons Park at the end of 19th Av. in Ruskin, developers want to change the zoning to ge…
Citizens won fierce battles this week to protect community plans from developers who don’t want to have to abide by a community’s vision for how they should grow and which types of development should...
UPDATE: We won! See my full report on Creative Loafing’s news & politics blog. The Hillsborough County Commission is trying to allow certain influential landowners to “opt-out” of Community Plans. This would set a dangerous precedent that could al…
1000 Friends of Florida has withdrawn their opposition to Amendment 4. They now realize Florida’s growth management system “needs major improvement,” and “Amendment 4 may be the catalyst that is needed to promote positive change.”Amendment 4 oppon…
Good news! The developer has withdrawn their proposal to build what we’ve been calling Part 2 of the Wimauma Sprawl Project.This was a prime example of urban sprawl: 1,500 houses in rural Wimauma (in orange on this map) on Bullfrog Creek wetlands …
Tampa Bay Sierra Club won our case in federal court vs. Cypress Creek Town Center today! The judge declared the permit from the Army Corps of Engineers invalid, and scolded them thusly: F. CONCLUSIONThe Corps has failed to fulfill its statutory du…