July 13 Starbucks ARC Hearing

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The Architectural Review Commission (ARC) will be holding another meeting on the Starbucks on July 13, 2005.

Here are the plans that will be reviewed, in PDF format. Each is around 1 meg in size. Starbucks 1, Starbucks 2 and Starbucks 3.

Please come to the hearing. The more residents who show, the better, as it will remind ARC that Seminole Heights really wants this store.

Here is a Trib article on the subject

Jul 2, 2005

Review Board Has Starbucks On Agenda

By KATHY STEELE ksteele@tampatrib.com

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS - The Starbucks coffee shop proposed for historical Seminole Heights could face not one but two more appearances before the Architectural Review Commission.

Tampa City Council members said Thursday they are concerned about more delays and want a shorter review process for applicants. The developer, Pursuit Development Co., asked to rezone the site at Hillsborough and Central avenues in February and has appeared three times before the review board. The council overrode the board's objections to the project and approved it in April.

The board will review the shop's facade July 13 at a preliminary hearing, with a final hearing pending.

"We're going to ask for dispensing with the preliminary approval," said Richard Diaz, of local consulting firm Diaz Pearson & Associates, which is representing the developer. "We're going to ask for final approval."

Cynthia Miller, Tampa's director of business and housing development, gave city council a timeline Thursday for the application. She defended the volunteer board, saying it wants to make sure the "baby" is healthy.

The review process for developments in historical neighborhoods is not always clear to the public, Miller said, and "for that I apologize."

Miller said she would come back to the council with recommendations for streamlining regulations. Councilman Shawn Harrison said Miller had no reason to apologize.

However, he was bothered about more delays. It could even come back to the council, Harrison said.

"It's bureaucracy at its worst," he said. "I don't want the neighborhood to lose this amenity because we're going back through the same process."

This story can be found at: http://centraltampa.tbo.com/centraltampa/MGBTW1YVMAE.html