RE: Application File No. REZ-24-06
2713 Bayshore Boulevard

Once again, for the fourth time in two years, the undersigned, severely impacted residents, small businesses, and citizens, strongly oppose the above referenced application. The subject site is within the Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA) and a designated FEMA flood zone. Although redesigned, this is still the wrong location for a tall, massive building totaling more than 196,000 square feet, 215 feet in height with 16 stories, 38 units and a parking garage with pool 77 feet in height. We oppose changing the current Planned Development zoning from Church and School to Church and Residential High Rise. This rezoning contradicts local resilience and sustainability initiatives aimed at reducing development in flood prone areas.

The location of this redesigned tower and parking garage will have an adverse effect on storm evacuation times and overburden the hurricane evacuation routes and shelter capacity integral to the health and safety of residents and add to the overburdened Bayshore Boulevard corridor.

The building is not consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and City Code; it does not promote the efficient and sustainable use of land and infrastructure because it doesn’t carefully consider the surrounding impacted neighborhood and the cultural resources in the area and doesn’t encourage compatibility in overall site design and scale and doesn’t maximize the preservation of natural resources that promotes and encourages development where appropriate in location, character, and compatibility with the surrounding impacted neighborhood, environment and existing geography.

The design of this proposed development impinges on the privacy of the neighbors and small businesses in this community. The layout negatively and economically impacts onto the adjacent use of the well-loved Tampa Garden Club and compromises its ability to continue in its historic location as a garden club and an affordable wedding venue and the ability to provide all important county-wide community programs and philanthropic support. Failure to consider scale, design and layout may result in adverse impacts to this neighborhood that are irreversible.

Please deny this application!