A developer with roots in the neighborhood is hoping to build a small apartment complex on Tangerine Place south of Busch Boulevard, but the local civic association questions whether it's the right fit. ...more

June 21, 2008

ZONING DECISIONS Hillsborough County commissioners approved the following area rezoning and land-use changes June 10. For information, call (813) 276-2058 or go to www.hillsboroughcounty.org/pgm/zoning. ...more

June 18, 2008

SEBRING — The Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency is proceeding with plans to beautify Circle Park. On Monday, commissioners met with Roger Statzer of Keith and Schnars engineering of Lakeland, and Marshall Whidden of Whidden Design Studio in Lake Wales. Without a vote, the commissioners agreed to see more advanced plans. Whidden would plant cathedral oaks, cabbage palms, shrubbery, metal picnic tables and benches, and place spotlights among the trees. ...more

June 10, 2008

Brooksville Wesleyan Church is seeking permission to build a new place of worship along State Road 50. ...more

June 7, 2008

BROOKSVILLE WESLEYAN ON P&Z AGENDA ...more

June 6, 2008

The Tampa Bay History Center will make history when it opens in December, the first time the city has had such a spectacular free-standing structure for its artifacts and stories. ...more

May 24, 2008

Today's Barack Obama rally in Tampa is officially sold out - tickets were free, but they're all gone, and a crowd of more than 20,000 is expected. ...more

May 21, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County's public access ramp to popular Lake Denton will be reopened at 8 a.m. Saturday. Public access to this exceptionally clear lake off Memorial Drive has been closed since Sept. 13, when the county commissioners' voted 3-2 to close it due to lakefront homeowners' complaints about traffic and parking congestion and rowdy and offensive behavior. ...more

May 6, 2008

Heavy traffic won't be the only difficulty confronting this weekend's AirFest. A hospital construction project at MacDill Air Force Base will make parking more challenging than in the past. ...more

May 2, 2008

Starbucks will not brew coffee in downtown Dunedin next year after all. This week the upscale coffee giant notified developer Joseph Kokolakis, who is refurbishing a row of shops at the western entrance to Main Street, it could not sign a lease at this time, Economic Development Director Bob Ironsmith said Thursday night. ...more

February 22, 2008