Farewell, and thank you, Mark Sharpe
Today is the last day of Mark Sharpe’s term on the County Commission. I will miss him on our county commission, and I’d like to thank him for his service.
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Success! Ruskin Community Plan Guidelines Amendment Approved!
Citizen action won the day last Thursday when the County Commission unanimously approved the Ruskin Community Plan Guidelines amendment to the Land Development Code. A good-sized group showed up at the final hearing to demonstrate support of the Ruskin Plan specifically, and ALL Community Plans in general. Speaking in support of the amendment were Sandy Council, President of the Ruskin Community Development Foundation; Kent Bailey, Chair of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club; and me, Mariella Smith.
Public Hearing cancelled because commissioners aren’t showing up to work
Tonight’s Public Hearing on the Ruskin Community Plan code amendment will have to be rescheduled—at the very last minute—because the county just now realized that we can’t get enough of our highly paid County Commissioners to show up for work today!
Speak up for bike lanes — with thanks
We need to tell our County Commissioners (repeatedly) that safe bicycle lanes & trails are important to MANY of us, if we want them to actually build the network of safe cycling infrastructure that is in our plans. We need to tell them we apprecia…
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…