Chapter 2 Land Use, Development, and Redevelopment Potential This chapter summarizes land use findings for the South County study area. It includes analysis of existing and future land use, planned and approved development, and areas with development and redevelopment potential. Relative proportions of residential to non- residential uses are evaluated for insight into the jobs/housing balance in the region. Development entitlements reflect approved building permits, Developments of Regional Impact (DRI), sites with certificates of capacity, and competitive sites (as designated by the Hillsborough County Economic Development Department). Development and redevelopment potential (undeveloped land or land with low existing improvement value or development intensity) maps indicate where future development has the potential to occur. 2.1 Existing Land Use The study area includes approximately 90,500 acres of land divided into 86,817 parcels. The majority of the study area is developed, with about 10 percent vacant land remaining (see Table 1). According to the Hillsborough County Land Development Code, “Vacant means any building, structure or property that is not legally occupied for more than 30 days” . The study area is predominantly residential (31.7%) with high proportions of single-family residential (28.2%), public (23.1%) and agricultural (21.6%). Table 1. Existing Land Use Summary Existing Land Use Acres Percent Number of Parcels Residential 29,135 32.2% 4,066 Single-family/Mobile Home 25,981 28.7% 3493 Two-family 220 0.2% 121 Multi-family 2,218 2.5% 367 Mobile Home Park 715 0.8% 85 Industrial 1,365 1.5% 109 Light Industrial 477 0.5% 67 Heavy Industrial 888 1.0% 37 Mining 0 0.0% 5 Commercial 1,750 1.9% 411 Light Commercial 1,548 1.7% 358 Heavy Commercial 202 0.2% 53 Public/Institutional/Utilities/ROW 26,096 28.8% 1,778 Public/Quasi-Public/Institutions 23,264 25.7% 1549 Public Communications/Utilities 1,548 1.7% 101 Right-of-way/Roads/Highways 323 0.4% 70 Educational 962 1.1% 58 Open Space/Recreation 2,349 2.6% 50 Recreation/Open Space 2,312 2.6% 48 Agricultural 20,552 22.7% 282 Vacant 9,223 10.2% 2602 Total 90,499 100.0% 1 9,319 Source: Plan Hillsborough
1 Existing land use categories less than 0.1% are not included in the existing land use table . The “unknown” category, seen in Figure 2, is 0.0003% of the existing land use in the study area and includes any parcel with no Department of Revenue (DOR) code or folio number.
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