Join us and take the Commuter Challenge February 19 – 23!
Plan Hillsborough invites you to join us in our second annual Commuter Challenge Week February 19 – 23. Leave your car at home, and try another mode of transportation for a trip, a day, or the week. Share your experience with us on social media using the hashtag: #CommuterChallenge18. We can’t wait to see your photos!
This year, we’re excited to announce the Tampa Downtown Partnership
has officially accepted the challenge! Join us and walk, bike, take transit, or carpool to get to and from work February 19 – 23.
Registration deadline for the
Gulf Coast Safe Streets Summit is February 16!
The stars have aligned, and we have assembled local experts and nationally recognized transportation visionaries for the first-ever Gulf Coast Safe Street Summit! Registration is closing on February 16, and you will not want to miss Keynote Speakers Leah Shahum, Founder and Director of the Vision Zero Network, and Ryan Gravel, AICP, Founder of the Atlanta Beltline. The day is jammed with thought-provoking panel discussions, featuring guests including National Coalition for Safer Roads President Melissa Wandell and the creator of Walking Towards Justice, Charles Brown, MPA.
The $60 registration closes on February 16. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door on February 27 at the Glazer Children’s Museum for $75.
Designed as an opportunity for high school students to explore urban planning as a potential career, Future Leaders in Planning (FLiP) offers a broad exposure to planning from public and private sector perspectives across many fields. In its second year, the annual FLiP program expanded from nine to eighteen students and from a two-day to a three-day intensive program. This year, we’re excited to announce FLiP will accept 21 students for a four-day program!
This FREE program will run May 29, May 30, May 31, and June 1, 2018 from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm and includes meals, snacks, a FLiP T-shirt, and more! Applications must be accompanied by a recommendation and are due by April 18, 2018.
Approval of a recent rezoning illustrates how new development can further the goalsofthe City of Tampa Comprehensive Plan. On December 14, 2017, Tampa City Council approved an air-conditioned self-storage facility in Seminole Heights through the Planned Development (PD) rezoning process. The PD process requires a site plan to be reviewed by City of Tampa staff and Planning Commission staff. The Planning Commission staff reviews for consistency with the Comprehensive Plan. In this case, the project did a number of things to further the policies related to urban design along a Mixed Use Corridor.
Thank you to The Graham at Gracepoint for a wonderful Info BBQ lunch and tour on January 31. This project was privately funded and used low income housing tax credits and a loan from the State of Florida to create a beautiful living environment for low-income seniors and for the homeless. The community has unique features such as “adopted apartments” which are sponsored by community groups. Residents can volunteer to earn “Graham bucks” which can be used in the community store. Participants on the tour donated items and cash for the residents to use at the store. Learn more:
Celebrating a long-awaited sidewalk on Busch Boulevard
“I am so glad to hear that we have a new sidewalk on Busch Boulevard. I walked all the way from what would be 15th Street to Chamberlain High School along the railroad track- totally dangerous forever, when I was a kid. Yeah team!”
Dr. Fernando “Fred” Barja, Jr. O.D.
Chief, Optometry Services, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital
Dr. Barja’s enthusiasm comes from the completion of the sidewalk system on the north side of Busch Boulevard where pedestrians now have safe passage between Florida and Nebraska Avenues. The Florida Department of Transportation(FDOT), with the cooperation of adjacent property owners, has provided a six foot wide walking experience for the public who daily travel the corridor to access work, school, health care, government services, and other needs. The Transportation Disadvantaged Coordinating Board has advocated for the complete sidewalk for many years, and had the construction of a sidewalk as a strategy to address existing conditions that place transportation disadvantaged populations in danger in the Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan since 2013. A special thanks to Lori Marable, FDOT District 7 Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator, for her diligence throughout the process.
Register NOW for the Hillsborough | Sarasota/Manatee All Hazards Recovery Plan Workshop
What if Hurricane Irma had hit us at Category 5? What if our transportation network was damaged or destroyed? What transportation assets would we repair or replace first?
Scenarios like these will be discussed at a workshop on March 1-2, 2018 at the Manatee County Public Safety Department in Bradenton. The workshop, one of six around the country, is part of a research pilot project funded by the Federal Transit Administration in partnership with the National Association of MPOs, and will be led by the Transportation Research and Education Center of Portland State University.
The two-day workshop costs $20 and includes continental breakfast and hot lunch each day.
We love the Children’s Gasparilla Bicycle Safety Rodeo!
Thank you to the Tampa Police Department and all the volunteers who make this annual event such a huge success. Our Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee loves helping fit the kids with bicycle helmets, assisting along the course, and making a lasting impression on the importance of bicycling safety on our youth.
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SWFWMD briefs River Board TAC on Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma provided the River Board Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) with a number of lessons to learn from and opportunities for continued collaboration amongst the various agencies represented at the TAC’s January 16 meeting. Joel Brown, the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) staff representative to the River Board TAC, briefed the TAC on the District’s experiences and response to Hurricane Irma.
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in state and federally funded multi-modal transportationinvestments in the first 5 years of each 20+ year plan
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