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Urban Design

Tools used by the Urban Design Staff are design standards for design overlays. 

Design Overlays:

Overlays encourage development to occur that is compatible with the existing scale and pattern of surrounding properties; the goal of which is to maintain and/or develop unique characteristics of the area.

Currently there are ten overlay districts in the City of Tampa:

  • Central Business District
  • Channel District
  • East Tampa Overlay District
  • Kennedy Boulevard Corridor District
  • New Tampa Commercial Overlay District
  • Parkland Estates Overlay District
  • Seminole Heights Residential Overlay District
  • South Howard Commercial Overlay District
  • Westshore Commercial Overlay District
  • West Tampa Overlay  District 

 Drawing: West Tampa Streetscape

West Tampa Streetscape

Go to www.municode.com to view the code for the overlay districts.