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On April 27th Plan Hillsborough staff, and family members, participated in the  Great American Cleanup  sponsored by  Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful . The team of volunteers spent their Saturday morning picking up trash along the trails, shoreline, and boat ramp at Riverhills Park in Temple Terrace. The cleanup is a call to action to create more sustainable communities by focusing on activities that impact individuals in need, provide aesthetic community improvements, and improve the environment.

Melissa Zornitta, Planning Commission Executive Director, has been appointed to serve on not one, not two, but three committees of the American Planning Association (APA) - the National Nominating Committee, the National Membership Committee, and the APA Foundation Fundraising Committee. Her tenure is through the end of 2019. 

 

The Planning Commission is proud to announce our 37th annual celebration of excellence in planning and design in Hillsborough County. Winning projects contribute to a better quality of life and serve as models to learn from and emulate. With the emphasis on the importance of great planning in our own region, our awards program is held in October as one of the many national festivities held during the American Planning Association's National Community Planning Month and celebration of Great Places in America (with Tampa's own Riverwalk bringing home the 2018 APA People's Choice Award).

May is National Bike Month, sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists, and celebrated in communities from coast to coast. On May 15, the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners recognized the benefits and importance of bicycle safety and the many local bicycling advocates with a proclamation. Watch the video, and you'll see many familiar faces, including our own Wade Reynolds and many who've long been involved with our Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and Vision Zero Hillsborough Coalition - Pedal Power Promoters, Tampa Downtown Partnership, Westshore Tampa Alliance, ULI Tampa Bay, and many other community partners - working towards bike/pedestrian safety and support of healthy transportation choices.   

 

Maintaining a minimum flow of fresh water down the lower Hillsborough River has been critical to the recovery and maintenance of this important natural resource. How do you maintain flow when water in the reservoir isn't high enough to flow over the dam? Until recently, the solution was to use electric powered pumps to move water up and over the dam. This solution  wa s dependent on the reliability of the mechanical pumps . Costs included  the purchase  of pumps and the electricity to operate the pumps.

 

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