Proving the value of the Cone Ranch property and why Hillsborough County should restore and protect it requires leg work, some say. ...more

December 15, 2009

The Hillsborough County Water Resource Services Department, which controls the Cone ranch property, is denying public access, citing a lack of staff to accompany visitors. ...more

December 14, 2009

Environmental activists won a huge victory recently when an advisory panel recommended that county-owned Cone Ranch stay in public ownership under the county's conservation lands program. ...more

November 28, 2009

Less than a month after flocking to downtown Tampa to show their support for an issue that hits close to home, a group from south Hillsborough County got their wish - at least some protection from the noisy, dusty excavation of borrow pits and the truck traffic that comes with it. ...more

November 26, 2008

Environmentalists and longtime homeowners continued their call Tuesday for a community plan for south of the Little Manatee River that would keep the area rural and protect natural areas from dense development. ...more

July 24, 2008

Dolly Cummings, John Smith and Mary Ann Wilhelm all share the same goal: They want to be the honorary mayor of Ruskin. ...more

July 5, 2008

The county commission has approved Little Harbor's request to convert 158 condominiums to daily rentals in a 4-3 vote. ...more

June 18, 2008

The future of Hillsborough County's conservation land-buying program, which has preserved more than 46,000 acres since 1990, likely will be decided by voters in November. ...more

May 20, 2008

Little Harbor's proposal to convert up to 450 residential units at its Bahia Beach condominium and hotel resort into daily rental units drew heavy fire from residents at a zoning hearing last week before a zoning hearing master. ...more

January 23, 2008

Regulators characterized it as the potential loss of a "nominal amount" of wetlands, but environmental advocates said allowing farmers to dredge or fill small ponds or marshes without replacing them whittles away at Hillsborough County's long-standing wetlands protections. ...more

January 21, 2008