Tampa City leaders have chopped back major portions of the draft Future Land Use section after a surge of public pushback and pointed City Council direction, tightening where denser development and bonuses could land and adding extra shields for coastal and single-family neighborhoods. The rewrite shifts the growth spotlight to a shorter list of transit corridors and spells out more clearly how density bonuses would work, with staff saying the goal is to satisfy new state rules while still keeping neighborhood character intact.
What changed in the draft
The latest draft shrinks the list of Transit Ready Corridors to a tighter group that includes Florida, Nebraska, Busch, Hillsborough, Fowler east of I-275, Kennedy, Dale Mabry north of Kennedy and…..