11/12/26 - CRA & Evening Land Use
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
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Where Is ‘West Tampa’?
The city draws at least three different West Tampas, and none of them line up exactly with the City of West Tampa that was its own city until 1925.
11/5/26 – First Reading for Charter Amendment Changes
Council takes up first reading of 15 proposed Charter amendments Thursday on a 115-item agenda that also includes more than $18 million in spending and the vote to abolish the Equal Business Opportunity Department.
Hillsborough’s Commission May Change. Where Does Tampa’s City Council Stand?
Charter Review Advisory Commission member Bobby Creighton on how Tampa’s council has been carved up since 1887, and why one council member has never represented so many people.
The 15 Proposed Charter Amendments, in One Place
Items 95-109 on the 11/5/26 agenda would put 15 Charter amendments on the March 2, 2027 ballot. Each one’s summary, changed language and ballot question, in one place.
11/5/26 - Regular Meeting
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
Rays Community Benefits Agreement Approved by Tampa City Council on 4-3 Vote
The resolution approving the Rays Community Benefits Agreement, revised the morning of the vote, and exempting the stadium from the city’s own community benefits ordinance passed 4-3, the same split as the funding agreement and the $80 million bond resolution.
10/29/26 – Rays Community Benefits Agreement Vote
Council wasn’t scheduled to meet this week, but a special call Thursday morning takes up the Rays Community Benefits Agreement, the vote Council Member Luis Viera wanted before he leaves office Nov. 2.
A Special Call for a Blank Page
Council meets Thursday, on its week off, to approve a Rays Community Benefits Agreement whose project list is an empty page. Two members spent months saying what had to be in it. The $4.2 million it promises the city over the first five years is less than one year’s debt service on the $80 million the city is putting into the deal.
10/29/26 - Special Call
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents.
How Council Will Fill the District 7 Seat
Council Member Luis Viera leaves office at 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 2, the night before his state House election, because Florida’s resign-to-run law required it. The city charter puts the choice of his successor with the six remaining members, who have set a Nov. 17 vote.
10/22/26 – Ethics Workshop and Comp Plan Returns
Council workshops the ethics code and the Ethics Commission Thursday morning, then takes up the comprehensive plan’s Future Land Use update that evening, the one the state has twice called void under SB 180. Also: why an ethics policy and an inspector general won’t matter much if Tallahassee keeps making the decisions.