Public meetings on Ruskin Community Plan code
Citizen attendance is critical at the meetings while they are codifying the Guidelines, to make sure that Ruskin’s Guidelines don’t lose any teeth in the process.
Tagged: Community Plans
Ruskin Community Plan back on track, ALL Community Plans defended
Thanks to all who sent in emails and spoke with commissioners, the Ruskin Community Plan is headed for firmer ground, AND our county commissioners received a strong message from people all over the county that we expect them to follow ALL our Community Plans.
Emails needed to defend Community Plans
Please send an email to protect Community Plans — sample email makes it easy! If one developer can gut the Ruskin Community Plan this way, it will start a feeding frenzy of developers finding “loopholes” in ALL community plans.
Citizens win on community plans
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...
County Commissioners tearing “opt-out” loopholes in Community Plans
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…