Victory for Now

Hillsborough County Commissioners voted 6-0 yesterday to deny a developer's application to waive the rules for building on the commercial parcel next to us. The developer can come back with another proposal for the property or, as its lawyer threatened, sue the county.

But, for now, we win.

While sympathetic to the Barclay Group's right to develop the property (as were we in our presentation), commissioners heard from us a now common thought among their constituents: People want development that does more than make their communities another in the long line of strip malls that populate too much of our state.

We also tried to impress on commissioners that the unusual proximity between the commercial development and ours meant that the developer had an obligation to build something that was compatible with hundreds of homes so close by.

Commissioners seemed open to changing the Riverview Uptown Overlay District that rules what developers can build in the 4-acre plot next to us, and we'll need to stay involved in any process that could alter the overlay district, and to see what the developers come back with.

This will be one topic of discussion when we have our next HOA meeting next Tuesday, January 22, at the usual location. Time is 7 p.m. Map to the location is below.

River of Life Christian Center
6605 Krycul Avenue
Riverview, FL 33569


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