Tag: Connections to Tomorrow July 2022
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A vision for Tampa’s future is crystallizing
July 2022 – A vision for the City of Tampa’s future is crystallizing in the latest update to the Tampa Comprehensive Plan. Thanks to your participation, the joint Planning Commission and City of Tampa project team has collected over 700 surveys with more than 1500 comments about the most important issues and planning ideas the […]
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Updates are coming to the Capital Improvements Section of the Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan
July 2022 – The Capital Improvements Section, a component of the overall Unincorporated Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan update, is moving forward as part of the July cycle of plan amendments. The Capital Improvements Section serves to update the Capital Improvements Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The Section will continue to provide a framework using the […]
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Single-family home price per square foot started growing in earnest in 2012
July 2022 – Changes in housing prices are a perennial topic of discussion in Florida[i]. Lately, there has also been a preoccupation with inflation locally and nationally[ii]. Typically, when discussed in the press, changes in housing prices are for large regions (e.g., Tampa Bay, Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Hillsborough County) and calculated using […]
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New projects in “The Works!”
July 2022 – The TPO kicked off a new fiscal year July 1, with a list of planning projects for the next two years in its new Unified Planning Work Program. Updated biennially, the Work Program outlines major planning tasks for the agency from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024. This latest update supports […]
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Tri-county rideshare service to be reinstated with state grant
July 2022 – The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) will receive $1 million from the Florida Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged to launch a tri-county rideshare service for transportation disadvantaged individuals. The PSTA won the award with support from the Hillsborough TPO and Pasco County MPO. With the award, the PSTA will establish the once discontinued […]
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Tampa Bay regional transportation surveys launching in August
July 2022 – The Hillsborough TPO is partnering with four other metropolitan planning organizations and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 7 to launch surveys that will provide information to help build the Tampa Bay Regional Demand Model and the 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The survey effort involves an employer questionnaire that […]
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Freshwater is a lifeline for the Lower Hillsborough River
July 2022 – By definition, a river is a freshwater body flowing into a large water body such as a saltwater sea, ocean, gulf or bay. If you cut off this freshwater flow, the saltwater connection moves in, dramatically changing the ecosystem. Maintaining this flow of freshwater ensures a balanced habitat and estuary environment that […]