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Developer Asks Planners To Allow A Big-Box Option

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By YVETTE C. HAMMETT

The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 17, 2008

RIVERVIEW - A landowner and developer wants the option to construct a big box retail store on property along this area's major corridor.

Maxcy Development Group is also asking Hillsborough County to modify zoning on a portion of its 65-acre Riverview Towncentre on Gibsonton Drive to allow for more intense commercial development on an out parcel.

Both zoning modification requests are scheduled to go before a county zoning hearing master Oct. 1.

Maxcy Development has zoning approval to build community-scale retail uses, offices and light industrial on its property between Balm-Riverview and Boyette roads on the east side of U.S. 301.

"They are just looking to add a big box as an option," said Ty Maxey, a principal planner for Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates, representing Maxcy in the modification request.

The land is vacant.

County Senior Planner Susan Mariner said the county had added conditions to the property's zoning that would allow for a big box store but had not included the actual wording for such a use. The developer's request would resolve that.

At its Riverview Towncentre, just west of U.S. 301 on the south side of Gibsonton Drive, Maxcy wants a change to the permitted uses on one of its out parcels. The request is to allow 10,000 square feet of commercial general uses on the property. It is approved for business professional offices or personal service uses.

The Planning Commission has concerns about allowing general commercial uses near residential, so the developer has agreed to limit the types of uses that would go there, Mariner said. Maxcy has not yet submitted a specific list.

Maxcy has developed the property with a Lowe's Home Improvement Center, Ruby Tuesday's, Dairy Queen Grill & Chill and an Arby's restaurant.

A cell phone tower would act as a buffer between residential and commercial.

According to the company's Web site, Maxcy chose Riverview for that development because it is one of the region's fastest growing areas.

Reporter Yvette Hammett can be reached at (813) 865-1566 or yhammett@tampatrib.com.

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