A request by Stephen J. Dibbs to remove 305 acres from the Keystone-Odessa community plan should be denied, planners for the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission say. ...more

January 12, 2008

Margarita Romo hasn't given up on her dream of making Tommytown's Lock Street live up to its other name: Calle de Milagros, or Miracle Street. ...more

January 12, 2008

KEYSTONE About 80 people attended an impromptu meeting of the Keystone Civic Association on Thursday night to discuss upcoming amendments to its community plan. ...more

January 11, 2008

A landowner is asking county officials to change the county's comprehensive land-use plan, a move that would open the door for intense residential and commercial construction on 94 acres off U.S. 92 near McIntosh Road and Interstate 4. ...more

December 22, 2007

A landowner is asking officials to change the county's comprehensive land-use plan, a move that would open the door for intense residential and commercial construction on 94 acres near McIntosh Road and Interstate 4. ...more

December 22, 2007

Hillsborough County planners are fighting two proposed changes to the county's long-range plan that would amend policies for extending water and sewer lines into rural areas. ...more

December 19, 2007

Hillsborough County planners are fighting two proposed changes to the county's long-range plan that would amend policies for extending water and sewer lines into rural areas. ...more

December 15, 2007

Developers want to transform a 16-acre wooded parcel at State Road 60 and Dover Road into a shopping center with a grocery store. ...more

December 15, 2007

On Nov. 14, I joined other Hillsborough County commissioners in a historic groundbreaking ceremony with Moffitt Cancer Center and drug maker Merck for M2GEN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer. ...more

December 4, 2007

SEBRING — Children and adults can now play a little less in the streets than they did at the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District. The addition of a new eight-foot-wide concrete multi-use cart path gives bikers, joggers, walkers and golf cart drivers a safer alternative to riding in the roadway on Sun 'n Lake Boulevard. The new mile-long path starts at the snack shack for the golf club and stretches to Cortez Boulevard while running parallel to Sun 'n Lake Boulevard. Al Grieshaber Jr., SNL general manager, said preparation, which included landscape removal in a "non-functional wetlands, " plus grading and installation took about 45 days and cost $110,000. Grieshaber expects to eventually extend the path another mile west to Balboa Boulevard and connect with the main trail head of the Sun 'n Lake Preserve, an off-road biking park with several miles of single and double track trails. ...more

November 24, 2007