The Greater Sun City Center Community Plan is without question the most reliable gauge of what our residents, businesses and other stakeholders want for our future. Because they wrote it.
To help each community address its own unique qualities and characteristics and guide its future, Hillsborough County established a formal planning process in 1998. Pulling together the opinions, objectives and hopes of widely diverse populations proved to be a challenge, and initial planning did not go smoothly. After two unsuccessful attempts, effective community planning still did not exist for Greater Sun City Center eight years later.
A third effort was launched in February, 2007 with a “revitalization of planning effort” meeting in community hall, led by a representative of the County Planning and Growth Management Department. That resulted in a series of 20 public meetings, each widely advertised and open to all—including residents, developers, business owners, government officials, and anyone else interested in the community’s future.
Each planning session was announced in newspaper notices and roadside placards throughout the area. Though the process was overseen and guided by County Planning Commission professionals, the procedure and content were not dictated by any government entity or official.
There was no “audience”. Everyone who attended took part in the process and decision-making. Afterward, a group of volunteers set about organizing the priorities and proposals established, and recording those findings in written form to be presented for approval by the County Commission. Like the previous meetings, these sessions were open to anyone who chose to participate.
The final result is our Greater Sun City Center Community Plan, dated September 2009. It is one of 22 such plans prepared by communities throughout unincorporated Hillsborough County.
Direct your attention to the yellow highlighted portions of the documents that follow. The highlighted sections represent those passages which directly support the stewardship and protection of our golf courses and green spaces and our quality of life.
Greater Sun City Center Community PlanOther Resources
Comprehensive Plan for Unincorporated Hillsborough County (Last updated April 2023)
Livable Communities Element ( All 22 Hillsborough Communities – Effective Date: August 2008)
To view the Sun City Center specific section of the Livable Communities Element document above, click on the following link: