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The Future Land Use update before council Thursday is built on 74,710 more people by 2045. In the two years since that baseline was set, the plan it replaces produced 72% of the housing the new one projects for six. The vacancies are already here. The people aren’t, yet.
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
A 99 item agenda: the $80 million Rays bond resolution, Peregrine back with its contract attached, $74 million in hurricane recovery agreements on consent, and a 1:30 Charter update with still no draft language in Onbase.
Item 90 authorizes up to $80 million in non-ad valorem revenue bonds for the city’s stadium contribution. The signed agreement says the city’s share of the stadium district’s property taxes will “repay” it. The bond resolution says property taxes can’t pay the bonds.
Council sent the Peregrine grant to Nov. 5 so the acting chief could brief each member, then moved the vote up to Thursday at staff’s request. The contract comes with an Aug. 4 memo in which TPD told Purchasing it needs Peregrine ‘to standardize and share law enforcement information across state law enforcement agencies.’
Charter Review Advisory Commission member Bobby Creighton traces how Tampa’s city council got its own attorney, from Jan Platt’s 1975 charter rewrite through a $1 law firm to Martin Shelby’s two decades at council’s side.
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
Water pressure dropped while crews flushed a new main for the developer-built road connecting K-Bar Ranch and Easton Park.
Not much on this week’s CRA and evening land use agendas. Catch up on the Inspector General series, plus council dropped the October 12 budget special call until after the November Amendment 3 vote.
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
Council Chair Alan Clendenin’s rewrite gives Tampa’s proposed inspector general subpoena power and its own initiative. Florida’s chief IG explains why that matters.
Flagged items from a 67 item regular agenda with the first formal votes on proposed Charter Amendments this week. Plus a note from the editor.
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