for citizens who care about Tampa Bay's growth management, transportation & environment
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.
The Urban Land Institute bills itself as a broad-based coalition of land-use professionals and planners, dedicated to “creating better places.” Some of their seminars, though, reveal a bunch of developers who seem more concerned...
The February 9 issue of The New Yorker spotlights the Tampa Bay area as “ground zero of the foreclosure crisis,” and exposes us nationally as a prime example of the political and corporate greed...
Pssst! Wanna have your way with wetlands and habitat? For a good time, call the “biostitutes” at Biological Research Associates. Finally, someone shined a light on these hustlers. Sunday’s St. Petersburg Times featured an...
Everybody is happy! Last summer, citizens stood strongly against the attempt by four county commissioners to eliminate our wetlands protections, so the commissioners backed down and accepted the “Hybrid” proposal offered by EPC director...
You might remember reading about One Bay’s Reality Check exercises, in which 300 hand-picked invitees, rushing against a 90-minute time limit, hurriedly heaped Legos on maps to depict their ideas for the 7-county region’s...