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By B.C. MANION The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 21, 2007

LUTZ – Residents made it plain there is no community-wide support to expand commercial development in the North Dale Mabry Overlay District, a county planner said Tuesday night.

But planners also must consider changes to the area's characteristics – including roadway expansions -when they make their recommendations regarding the overlay district to the Hillsborough County commission, said John Healey, an executive planner for the county's planning and growth management staff.

The district, adopted in 1989, guides development on both sides of North Dale Mabry Highway, between Van Dyke and County Line roads. It identifies the intersections of Lutz Lake-Fern Road, Sunlake Boulevard and Van Dyke Road as commercial activity areas.

A committee has been meeting with county planning staff since April to discuss what, if any, changes should be made to the district.

Changes they discussed – which would have boosted development potential at all three commercial activity areas – were unveiled at a community open house on Nov. 13.

"It is our perception that, as a whole, folks at the open house were not supporters of expansion," Healey told the committee during its final session Tuesday night.

Many said they don't want to repeat the strip commercial development on South Dale Mabry Highway, and they think the overlay district is the mechanism to prevent that, Healey said.

The staff's report to the county commission, scheduled for Dec. 11, will include the community's comments – both for and against changes to the overlay district, Healey said. It also will include the staff's analysis and recommendations for the corridor.

Read more about the overlay district in the Saturday edition of the Carrollwood News & Tribune.

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