{"id":18776,"date":"2012-12-20T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T20:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T20:56:50","slug":"mayor-says-west-tampa-plan-will-include-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18776","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Says West Tampa Plan Will Include All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Bob Buckhorn<\/strong> said he\u2019s aware of all the concern about the redevelopment plans for the west bank of the Hillsborough River, and the West Tampa community.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I wouldn\u2019t call anything a plan at this point. What the Urban Land Institute and the Tampa Housing Authority have are studies, not plans. What the West Tampa Chamber of Commerce has is a study, not a plan. There are no plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore anything is finalized, there will be several community meetings held, and everything will be based on a community consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Buckhorn<\/strong> said the studies done by the West Tampa Chamber of Commerce, and the West Tampa CDC will all be discussed at length, and segments of all the studies will be put into the final document that will be a plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to go on record as saying not one school in West Tampa will be impacted by any of the development projects. Also, displaced residents will be handled exclusively by the Tampa Housing Authority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have intentionally not attended any of the meetings going on to discuss their outlook on what they expect from the redevelopment proposal. I\u2019m also happy people are engaged in the revival of West Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Buckhorn<\/strong> said once and for all, there is no plan to react to at this time, because everything is still in the discussion stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing will move forward until the community has been heard. The only official study right now is the one submitted by the ULI.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce everything is finalized, if there are land use or zone issues, the City Council will have the last word. Other than that, it would be only a guiding document. If we set up a CRA, the Council would have to approve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Frank Reddick<\/strong> said when the Mayor goes forward with any redevelopment plan, it has to come before them for approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are three plans out there. The West Tampa Chamber of Commerce doesn\u2019t have funding, and they need to establish a CRA before they can even get started.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe West Tampa CDC is in a worse position, because they don\u2019t have a funding mechanism. They also need to set up a CRA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Reddick<\/strong> said the plan that shows the most promise would be the ULI recommendations, because the Mayor would have direct input into the funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in the end, what we will see is a mixing of all three plans. They all have the same goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporter Leon B. Crews can be reached at (813) 248-0724, or e-mailed at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>lcrews@flsentinel.com<\/em><\/strong>, or\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>noelswerc@gmail.com<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


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Mayor Bob Buckhorn said he\u2019s aware of all the concern about the redevelopment plans for the west bank of the Hillsborough River, and the West Tampa community. \u201cFirst of all, I wouldn\u2019t call anything a plan at this point. What the Urban Land Institute and the Tampa Housing Authority have are studies, not plans. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}