Ordinance 2025-20 — Downtown Character District intensity/density text amendment
Description
A text amendment to the Special Area Plan revising how much intensity and density is allowed in the Downtown Character District, set for its second reading.
Impact summary
Could allow more hotel rooms and smaller downtown apartments; existing upstairs rentals that couldn't be rebuilt today become replaceable.
Applicant
- Address
- Downtown Character District, Tarpon Springs, FL
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 2
Last vote · County Commission
Last discussed Jan 27, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
Board of Commissioners - Jan 27, 2026
A text amendment to the Special Area Plan updating intensity and density standards in the downtown character district. Commissioners passed it but pledged to fix ground-floor retail requirements in the broader code update.
Board of Commissioners - Jan 13, 2026
Removes the 15-unit/acre residential cap and 50-unit/acre hotel cap in the Downtown Character District, keeping FAR limits; driven partly by the Tarpon Registry project's second-floor hotel units. First reading passed; second reading January 27.
Related issues (2)
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