Residents opposed to Tampa apartment development to get their say

TAMPA — Opponents of an apartment and townhouse development in Tampa will get a chance to air their objections before city officials at a zoning hearing July 22.

While proposed zoning changes to allow developments are fairly common — as are homeowners complaining about apartments and townhouses moving in — this one carries extra weight. It is part of a larger push that could permanently transform a section of South Tampa where rapid, and some say inevitable, commercial growth is already butting up against multimillion-dollar homes and a decades-old neighborhood.