Role/jurisdiction: Municipal streets within Tampa; largest city client context in the region. Transportation, stormwater, and parking sit under the Mobility Department; development review runs through Development Coordination / Construction Services (Accela). Many major corridors inside the city are FDOT (District 7) or county facilities — confirm maintaining agency per corridor before citing standards #status/verify.
Known starting points (resolved 2026-07-08 unless tagged):
- Vision Zero: the city has its own adopted Vision Zero Action Plan (December 2021, PDF) — program home at tampa.gov/visionzero, plus a Citywide Speed Limit Reduction Program.
- Traffic calming: no published standalone calming handbook or criteria (unlike Hillsborough County) — requests are triaged data-driven through the Vision Zero / Tampa MOVES prioritization process (details below).
- GIS: the portal is the City of Tampa GeoHub (ArcGIS Hub).
- Signals: Tampa runs its own signal system (Smart Mobility Division + city TMC) — it does not contract signals to Hillsborough County.
Collect (link each as found; date it)
- TIA/TIS guidelines: Transportation Impact Analysis and Mitigation Plan Procedures Manual — February 2011 edition (PDF), still the posted edition; implements Tampa Code Ch. 25, and is listed as current on the city’s Design Standards page. Key mechanics (from the manual text): “no study”/de minimis threshold = < 100 net average-weekday trip ends (or driveway volume); four study types — De minimis Determination → Adjacent Critical Link & Intersection Analysis → Network Impact Analysis → Enhanced Network Impact Analysis — triggered by the share of the adjacent link’s LOS “D” daily service capacity consumed (2%/1% adjacent-link tests, 5%/2% network tests, split on whether AADT ≥ 95% of LOS D capacity, per FDOT Q/LOS generalized tables); a city-approved methodology letter is mandatory before preparing the TIA; TCEA exemptions (Downtown Revitalization = no TIA; Urban Redevelopment = Westshore, USF, The Heights, Central Park Village, Ybor CRAs; Urban Infill) and Primary Transit Facility service-area exemptions (¼ mi high-frequency bus, ⅓ mi BRT/transit center, ½ mi rail). Mitigation interacts with the Multi-Modal Transportation Impact Fee — fee update adopted late 2025, increases phase in starting June 2026. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Parking study guidelines / parking code (with section #): zoning parking is Tampa Code Ch. 27, Art. VI, Div. 3 — Access, Parking and Loading (Municode): § 27-283.11 vehicle parking (required-spaces table), § 27-283.16 bicycle parking. On-street/operational parking (meters, garages, enforcement) is Ch. 15 — Parking (Municode) under the Parking Division; a district-specific Ybor City parking ordinance (2024, PDF) also applies there. No citywide parking-minimum elimination has been adopted (verified 2026-07-08 — reductions are handled case-by-case/by special district). No standalone parking study guideline is published online — request expectations from Mobility/Development Coordination. Municode pages return 403 to generic bots but load with a browser user-agent (confirmed live 2026-07-08). (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic calming program/guidelines: no published handbook, petition process, or numeric speed/volume criteria — Tampa folds calming into Vision Zero: requests enter via the Traffic Safety Concern and Speeding Concern online services, are screened against crash history and the High Injury Network, and are prioritized per the Vision Zero Process & Prioritization page (which references a “Neighborhood Traffic Calming program, informed by the MOVES plan” but publishes no criteria — request from Mobility). Delivery tools: Quick Build Program (paint/signs/markings) and the Vision Zero Tech Team. Engineering investigations (speed/volume data, sight distance, school zones) are run by the Traffic Studies and Safety Section, (813) 274-8333. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Complete Streets policy · Vision Zero / Safety Action Plan: Vision Zero Action Plan, December 2021 Final (PDF) — Safe System framing, High Injury Network (51 corridors ≈ 24% of road miles carrying ~73% of deaths); program home tampa.gov/visionzero (2023 Annual Report posted there). Speed management: Citywide Speed Limit Reduction Program (evaluating remaining 35/40/45-mph city and county roads per the FDOT Speed Zoning Manual). No standalone adopted Complete Streets policy found online
#status/verify— the working equivalents are Tampa MOVES (first citywide mobility plan, unveiled July 2023, ~$2B 30-yr program) and comprehensive-plan mobility policies (comp plan maintained by Plan Hillsborough). (checked 2026-07-08) - Roadway design standards / standard details: Design Standards and Guidelines hub — governing city documents: Transportation Technical Manual, 2023 edition (PDF; originally adopted by Ords. 2010-3/2010-4, current edition adopted by Ord. 2023-51, approved 2023-04-06 (PDF)) and the Pavement and Right-of-Way Restoration Standard + Details (PDF). The design page also lists the referenced state/national manuals (Florida Greenbook, MUTCD, FDOT standards/MUTS/TEM, NACTO, FHWA separated bike lane guide) and a design-exception process. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Access management standards: no standalone access management manual — site access/driveway standards live in Tampa Code Ch. 27, Art. VI, Div. 3 (Access, Parking and Loading), Ch. 25 (Transportation) technical provisions, and the Transportation Technical Manual; the TIA manual requires “acceptable treatment of site access as determined by the Transportation Manager consistent with the City’s Land Development Code” regardless of study threshold. Driveway connections are permitted through the ROW/driveway permits below. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic count requirements (seasonal factors accepted?): count and analysis standards are set through the TIA manual (Appendix 4 general standards) and the mandatory methodology-letter process — confirm seasonal-adjustment acceptance in the methodology letter
#status/verify. The city does not publish a traffic count database (GeoHub searched 2026-07-08 — no count dataset); request counts from Mobility; FDOT Traffic Online covers state roads. (checked 2026-07-08) - Crash/safety dashboard: Vision Zero Dashboard (ArcGIS) — severe-injury/fatality crash locations, linked from tampa.gov/visionzero; the High Injury Network is downloadable as an open (CC0) feature service on the GeoHub. (checked 2026-07-08)
- GIS / open data portal: City of Tampa GeoHub (ArcGIS Hub; city GIS program page) — notable transportation layers (verified via portal API 2026-07-08): Road Centerline, Sidewalk, Speed Limit, Street Speed Limit Reductions, MOVES Speed Limit Above Target, High Injury Network, and an active Right-of-Way Permits dashboard. No signal, crash-point, or traffic-count datasets published. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Signal timing procedures & maintaining agency: the city’s own Smart Mobility Division operates and maintains all ~550+ signalized intersections within city limits through the city Traffic Management Center — Tampa does not contract signals to Hillsborough County (contrast with smaller cities in the county). See Traffic Signals and Signs and Traffic Signal Timings — timing/phasing sheets are maintained for all city signals (obtain via request); signal malfunctions: (813) 274-3101, 24/7. A written signal-timing procedures manual is not published online — request from Smart Mobility. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Development review process & submittal requirements: Development Coordination (applications & forms) and Construction Services — electronic submittal via Accela Citizen Access with the ePermitHub Digital Plan Room; pre-application meetings and paid Preliminary Plan Review (~60% plans) are scheduled through Accela records. TIAs are reviewed with site-plan rezonings, DRC (Development Review and Compliance), plats, construction plans, and building permits per Tampa Code Chs. 25/27. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Permit forms (ROW, driveway): Right of Way Permitting Section — sidewalk/driveway construction in city ROW; review runs ~12–15 business days; rightofwaypermitting@tampagov.net, (813) 274-3104. Residential driveway permits (curb/approach work) go through Construction Services — Residential Driveways; restoration per the Pavement and ROW Restoration Standard. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Example projects (ours & public): ours live in the private vault (see callout below); no city-published example TIA submittals found online.
Contacts, review-comment history, and institutional notes live in the private vault — never on the public site.
See also: MOC - Agencies · Hillsborough County · Vision Zero and the HIN (Tampa Bay)