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Workshop held on Tampa’s Comprehensive Plan listen

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Tags: Growth, Development

This morning on the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus, city employees, USF researchers and others gathered to discuss ideas for Tampa’s future. The purpose was to identify research priorities relating to the city’s draft Comprehensive Plan, which will be finalized later this year.

Judi Jetson, director of the USF Collaborative for Children, Families & Communities, told WMNF about the purpose of the workshop she organized.

Cyndy Miller is Tampa’s director of growth management a...

Hyde Park development gets green light listen

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A controversial rezoning for a nine-story condominium and retail project in Tampa’s Hyde Park District was approved by the City Council today on a 4-2 vote.

The developer, Wasserman Real Estate Capital, plans to build a $100-million upscale complex of retail shops and two condominum towers that will add 163 residencies to the neighborhood, considered one of Tampa’s classiest.

But there has been opposition from local residents and the city’s Architectural Review Commission (ARC), which ...