3.3 Sun City Center
Sun City Center is located between Ruskin and Wimauma in South County. Sun Center City is a master-planned retirement community developed in the 1960s on what was a 12,000-acre cattle ranch. The Sun City Center Senior Citizen Overlay District (SPI-SCCSC) restricts occupancy within the boundaries to individuals 55 years of age or older. Sun City Center does not have a town center. Commercial uses serving the community are found primarily along Sun City Center Boulevard (SR 674), from I-75 on the west to US 301 on the east. Several health care facilities are present in Sun City Center, including South Bay Hospital (Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission, 2008). The statistical profile for Sun City Center can be found in Appendix A. According to ACS estimates for 2013-2017, the median age was 72 and the median household income was $47,285. In light of their advanced age, most Sun City Center residents are retired. Of those still in the workforce, the average commute time was 30.2 minutes and 80.2 percent of Sun City Center commuters drove to work alone. Fewer than 1 percent of Sun City Center residents used public transportation for their commute, 1.5 percent walked, 4.3 percent used other means of transportation (the highest in the study area and higher than Hillsborough County), and 9.4 percent worked at home (the second highest in the study area) (Figure 38). According to the OD analysis, most of Sun City Center trips are internal and access the modern suburban areas of activity near the intersection of I-75 and Sun City Center Boulevard.
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Figure 38. Sun City Center means of commuting to work Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Sun City Center consists of two area of activity types – modern suburban and connected suburban. The connected suburban area of activity is west of Pebble Beach Boulevard and contains Sun City Center Plaza ─ the proposed community town center (Figure 39). The modern
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