§ 3.02.01. Generally

A.

Intent

It is the intent of the Land Development Code to provide the regulatory provisions to implement the Future Land Use Element, Interstate 75 Development. The Interstate-75 Corridor is viewed by the Comprehensive Plan and by these zoning regulations as a unique area where separate zoning requirements may be appropriate. It is the further intent of this district to facilitate the identification and designation of a Regional Activity Center in the I-75 Corridor, specifically and exclusively in the RMU-35 Land Use Category.

B.

Goal and Objectives

The goal of this district is to help create, along the I-75 Corridor, an urban environment that displays the highest quality private and public sector development. The objectives are:

1.

To encourage urban level intensity mixed use development and mixed use patterns of development within I-75 mixed use categories.

2.

To promote opportunities high quality private and public development within urban level categories by developing and implementing encouragement programs, and design sensitive regulations.

3.

To promote opportunities for all segments of the population regardless of age, sex, race and income, to live and work in the I-75 Corridor.

4.

To provide flexibility in the development review process.

5.

To increase the use of mass transit.

6.

To provide an efficient road network.

7.

To ensure adequate and timely public facilities and services.

8.

To ensure that water quality and quantity, environmentally sensitive areas and wildlife habitats are protected from degradation by development and that naturally vegetated areas and other types of open space areas are provided to complement development.

9.

To provide additional environmental protection to designated rivers and creeks as a means of enhancing the uniqueness of the I-75 Corridor.

10.

To promote intense concentrated growth in areas that have adequate infrastructure concurrent with development to support that growth, reducing fragmented and sprawl-type development patterns and protecting critical regional facilities.

11.

To further the intent of the Interstate Planned Development district each specific district is permitted maximum densities and intensities in accordance with the 2015 Future Land Use Map, and the Future of Hillsborough Urban Land Use Classifications in the current Future Land Use Element of the Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan.

(Ord. No. 00-21, § 2, 5-18-00; Ord. No. 01-30, § 2, 11-15-01; Ord. No. 08-15, § 2, 6-12-08, eff. 10-1-08)