South County Integrated Mobility Study

office parks, colleges, apartment or condominium complexes, etc.

Type IV — Public/Private Roads

All new public or private roadways.

Access to public roadways designated as Special Corridors by the Board of County Commissioners.

Type V — Special Corridors

4.2.2 Cross Access and Unified Access

Another strategy for network enhancement is to promote internal connections between adjacent developments. Interparcel cross access reduces the need to use the public street system while moving between adjacent and complementary land uses where vehicular and pedestrian trips are likely to occur. The County strongly emphasizes cross access in its comprehensive plan policies and land development code (see Table 18). County policies and regulations also promote consolidation of access and unified access and circulation plans.

Table 18. Hillsborough County Cross Access and Shared Access Policies

Transportation Element

Policy 1.5.10 The County shall continue to encourage consolidation of site access points serving

developments, and coordinate the issuance of permits for driveway curb cuts and median openings on the State Highway System with the FDOT, during the site plan review stage of development, prior to local government issuing construction permits for development which will impact the State Highway System.

Policy 1.5.13 Hillsborough County shall continue to implement standards for providing cross-access among parcels fronting arterial roads, consistent Hillsborough County Transportation Element 139 with access management policies and the need for safe, consolidated access points.

Future Land Use Element

Policy 23.1

The County shall work to consolidate and reduce the number of curb cuts in strip commercial areas through such methods as cross access agreements.

The county regulates cross access according to the following requirements (Section 6.04.03(Q)). Vehicular and pedestrian cross-access must be provided if:

 The site is on at least one roadway with an Access Classification of 1 through 5, and

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