Development Code Composition includes drafting comprehensive and unified code amendments to ensure Tampa's codes are written in "one voice", easily understood and readily implemented.
Pending Code Changes
January 2021 Code Amendment Cycle - Part 2 ¶
1. Karen Kress - application to amend sections of CBD & CD, and general parking regulations
REVISED Application to Amend Sections of CBD & CD General Parking Regulations
2. Nathan Naugle - application to remove warehouse as a permitted use in CD and reduce building height Request withdrawn by Applicant
Public Information Meeting - July 26, 2021
City Council Workshop - February 24, 2022 at 1:30 PM - Item was never heard, continued to April 28, 2022
July 2021 Code Amendment Cycle ¶
Publicly-Initiated Amendment
August 16, 2021 Public Information Meeting (MEETING CANCELLED)
September 13, 2021 at 6 pm Public Information Meeting

- City Staff Presentation
- Meeting Attendee List - Public Information Meeting - September 13, 2021
- Chat Log - Public Information Meeting - September 13, 2021
- City Planning September 13th Public Information Meeting Recording
City Council Workshop - September 23, 2021 at 9:30 am (Item not heard, moved to 10/21/2021)
Planning Commission Briefing - October 4, 2021
Planning Commission Public Hearing - November 8, 2021
City Council 1st Reading -December 16, 2021
City Council 2nd Reading - January 13, 2022
January 2022 Code Amendment Cycle ¶
Publicly-Initiated Amendments
- Commercial vehicle in residential district: Amend commercial vehicle definition, adds personal vehicle definition.
- Food truck: Adds food truck definition and use.
- Alcoholic beverage sales enforcement: Adds option of fifteen (15) day notice in emergency situations for enforcement hearings.
- Bonus provision - Graywater: adding the installation of Graywater systems as a bonus amenity.
- Home-based business: Amending home occupation, changing use to home-based business; remove Special Use 1 requirement and replace as an allowable accessory use.
- Development Review Compliance (DRC): Amending DRC definition.
- Transfer of Development Rights: Adds written determinations as formal decisions; correcting code section references.
- Street cafe: Adds street cafe as permitted use to an existing approved sidewalk cafe.
- Storefront Residential Parking Requirements: Adds storefront residential parking requirements.
- Formal decision: adds specific overlay/special district references, clarifies language regarding lot orientation and development pattern, adds formal decision can be considered by Zoning Administrator.
City Council Workshop - April 28, 2022
Public Information Meeting Announcement - May 17, 2022
Privately-Initiated Amendments (Last cycle for privately-initiated text amendments)
- Andrew Mayts, Esq. - Application to amend Section 27-140, Bonus Provisions
- Angela Rauber - Application to amend Section 27-183 Table 183.1 CBD Signs
- Ricky Peterika - Application to amend Sections 27-43 Definitions, 27-211.13 Seminole Heights District, 27-284 Natural Resources, add 27-283.16 Bicycle Parking Standards (Excel Spreadsheet)
- Brian Seel - Application to add Tampa Heights Overlay District Design Standards
- Tyler Hudson - Reducing multi-family parking requirements, adding 3 additional footnotes to the parking table for development in Central Business District periphery.
- East Tampa CRA - Amend East Tampa Overlay standards.