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Zoning

Developer requests extra homes for planned village

By LETITIA STEIN
Published September 16, 2005

RIVERVIEW: Fifteen hundred homes are slated for Triple Creek, approved five years ago south of Big Bend Road. The developer now wants 545 more.

Triple Creek LLC is requesting a major modification to its community on the east side of Balm-Riverview Road. Plans call for a central village with a mix of commercial and office uses. On more than 1,000 acres, it includes a public school, park, fire station and a library.

This creates a "planned village," for which the county allows more homes per acre. Or so the developer hopes. Triple Creek LLC argues that a "planned village" would justify a total of 2,045 homes. This way, the county could get maximum use out of public facilities.

The extra homes would end up scattered across residential areas, without changing the community's layout. This way, they would not affect open space and environmentally sensitive lands. A trail system winds throughout the property.

A zoning hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26. County commissioners would vote on the proposal on Oct. 8. (PETITION 05-1627)

LITHIA: More businesses could pop up on Lithia Pinecrest Road.

Williams Holdings is requesting to rezone about 6 acres on the south side of Lithia Pinecrest, east of County Road 39, from agricultural uses to planned development for commercial uses. Currently, a mobile home sits on the property.

Williams Holdings wants to develop 30,000 square feet for neighborhood businesses or office space on 3 northern acres that span most of the property's 400 feet of frontage along Lithia Pinecrest. On the southern half, the developer would place three mobile homes.

The proposed commercial development is adjacent to a gas station, convenience store and retail space. A public school is on the west side of County Road 39.

A zoning hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26. County commissioners are scheduled to hear the rezoning request on Oct. 8. (PETITION 05-1630)

RIVERVIEW: Goodbye, country living. Hello, townhomes?

Maxcy Development Group wants permission to build 80 townhomes on about 10 acres on the southwest side of Balm-Riverview Road. The developer seeks to rezone the property between U.S. 301 and Boyette Road, from mixed uses to a planned development.

Today, farmland and houses on large lots mostly surround the proposed townhome village. But 200,000 square feet of retail and office space recently was approved for 25 acres at the western edge.

The developer argues that the high-density townhomes fit with the emerging character of the neighborhood. Future townhome residents would enter and exit off Balm-Riverview Road.

A zoning hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26. County commissioners would vote on the proposal on Oct. 8. (PETITION 05-1639)

Hearings of county zoning hearing masters and land-use hearing officers, and land use meetings of the County Commission are held on the second floor of the County Center, 601 E Kennedy Blvd. All hearings before a zoning hearing master begin at 6 p.m. on Mondays or Tuesdays; commission meetings begin at 9 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Both are televised on government access channels. Land use hearing officer hearings, which are not televised, begin at 9 a.m. every third Friday. Basic information about each petition is available online at http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/pgm/zoning For information, call 276-5920.

[Last modified September 15, 2005, 11:01:03]