Weekly Brief
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12/18/25 – Consequential Agenda to Close Out 2025
The final council meeting of 2025 has no shortage of consequential votes that will resonate for years to come. From…
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12/11/25 – Final CRA and Land Use Meetings of 2025
CRA to vote on services agreement with city and final evening land use hearing of the year.
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12/04/25 – Multi-modal Impact Fee Finally Gets a Vote Along With $90+Million in Funding Requests
Additionally council to discuss TPD relying on stormwater staff for concrete barriers for special events and the effect on budget…
Look Ahead
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12/18/25 – Regular Meeting
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
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12/11/25 – CRA & Evening Land Use
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
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12/04/25 – Regular Meeting
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
More Stories
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Soft Redesign
Finally got around to updating the site design and put something together that gives me flexibility to do more writing…
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June Wrap Up
Council goes on break until July 18th after a workshop Thursday. Recapping the items that were on the regular agenda…
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This Week 6-20-24
Highlighting a few items on the agenda this week and passing on commenting on the $56 million dollar Mobility project.
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This Week at Tampa City Council 6-6-24
Relatively comprehensive look at this week’s packed agenda. Emphasis on what’s being voted on versus what is coming.
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Weekly Review 5-23-24
A look at Tampa City Council Workshop 5-23.24 and evening land use hearing. Major topic was Solid Waste rate adjustment…
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Agenda Preview 5-23-24
Previewing the agenda for the Council workshop and evening land use hearing, including the first of two discussions about raising…
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Wrap Up 5-16-24
Revisiting the major agenda items I noted in last week’s preview. Tentative dates for the budget process, appointments to the…
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$8 Million in Unspent Paving
First, there are a lot of questions that haven’t quite been answered yet, so maybe there’s a perfectly good explanation…
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This Week 5-12-24
I took another week off, not because I didn’t want to preview the CRA agenda, I just ran out of…