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TAMPA — The role streetcars can play in redevelopment will be a topic Tuesday at a discussion sponsored by the Tampa Downtown Partnership on Harbour Island.
Ray Chiaramonte, executive director of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, will provide a briefing on the group's analysis of Hillsborough County's 2010 referendum on a penny sales tax. The referendum, to invest in a countywide transportation improvement plan, was voted down.
At the meeting, Chiaramonte will reveal results of the planning group's study, and present options for moving forward with a new transportation plan, according to a statement by the Tampa Downtown Partnership. Clarence Eng, senior transit project manager at Kimley-Horn & Associates Inc., will outline the role streetcars play in redevelopment.
“We cannot have a dynamic urban core without a robust transportation system offering a variety of mode choices,” says Christine Burdick, president of the Downtown Partnership, in the statement. The partnership is a not-for-profit group that contracts with the city of Tampa, and administers its Special Services District.
The meeting begins at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Jackson's Bistro on Harbour Island.
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