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Please understand, we exhaust every avenue when trying to resolve zoning issues. Legal action is our last recourse, and only with the approval of our membership. Donations are appreciated and are needed now to help preserve your community.  Please make checks payable to:

    KCA Legal Defense Fund
    P.O. Box 95
    Odessa, FL 33556


Rezoning Procedures ]
 

Contact Tom Aderhold and Barbara Dowling for the latest updates regarding Comprehensive Plan Amendments affecting Keystone-Odessa.

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Keystone-Odessa Community Plan

Keystone-Odessa Rural Development Standards

Rezoning Procedures


Key of Common Zoning Terms:

TERM / ACRONYM

DESCRIPTION

BOCC

Board of County Commissioners

Conditional Use

Approval by the BOCC of a property use which is not specifically permitted by zoning

DRI

Development of Regional Impact -- A planned development which is large enough to impact surrounding counties, especially with regard to traffic, thus is subject to a higher level of review (state level).

Easement

An acquired right to use a parcel of land for a specific purpose.

Major Modification

Substantial increase in density or major change to a project

MPUD/PUD

Master Planned Unit Development -- A large scale development -- residential, professional office or commercial

P&GM

Planning & Growth Management

PD

Planned Development

PO

Professional Office -- Professional Services offices such as medical, legal, real estate, etc., not including wholesale or retail sale.

PRS

Personal Appearance; minor modification

Right-of-Way (R/W)

Land owned by the state, county or municipality.

R/O/R

Retail / Office / Residential -- A mixed land use classification

Setback

Distance of development of structures from property lines or natural features

Special Exception

The granting of a modification to zoning standards

Variance

Permission to depart from the literal zoning requirement

 

When & Where

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/ by petition date.  For information call 276-2058.

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Additional Online Info:

Future Zoning Hearings - BOCC/ZHM
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/pgm/zoning/

Land Development Code
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/

Go to:  PART 3.08.00 for KEYSTONE-ODESSA RURAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

Planning Commission
http://www.theplanningcommission.org/

Planning and Growth Management/Zoning Questions, Email
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/pgm/
 

Office of Neighborhood Relations
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/onr/
Information regarding how to be heard at a rezoning may be found here
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            


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