About the Vision
The 25-year community vision is for the Gateway to evolve into several distinct, sustainable, mixed-use districts that celebrate its regional geography and leverage its central location on Tampa Bay to retain and encourage job growth while providing new housing, services, and a host of amenities for employees, residents, and visitors. Each district will include vibrant nodes that are connected to transit, with safe walkable and bikeable streets, trails, and blue ways.
One of the overarching planning and design principles is to create a sustainable and resilient Gateway that will sustainably manage water, energy, and other environmental resources and protect the diverse ecosystem that makes up the county’s natural resources and contributes to the county’s public health, quality of life, and local economy. A triple bottom line resiliency toolkit was developed in support of this goal that employs flood mitigation strategies, multi-functional open space, thermal comfort, resiliency hubs, renewable energy, and resilient codes.
