INFINITUS RENEWABLE ENERGY PARK (IREP)

"Clean Energy, Clean Food, Clean Water, Clean Jobs"

Executive Summary

Key Points

• Hillsborough County will be recognized for having the largest Renewable Energy Park of its kind in the Eastern United States.
• Reclaiming Old Phosphate Mine to create new high tech job base.
• Creating a unique hybrid category which will draw from the work force adjacent to the urban community and products from the adjacent rural community.

• Use of available reclaimed water for the research/industrial facilities, biomass facility, and aquaculture ponds.
• Creating a significant tax base on a property that has been a non-reclaimed phosphate mine.
• Project would restore Turkey Creek a long impacted and never restored wetland system.
• Project would start the Implementation of the Economic Stimulus Task Force Report and Comprehensive Plan Policies requiring Hillsborough County to provide targeted industries by the end of 2010.

Consulted County Depts./Agencies with No Objection

Planning Department Staff Economic Development Department Environmental Protection Commission - (need to review future development plans) Transportation Division - Planning & Growth Management Planning & Growth Management Metropolitan Planning Organization Hillsborough County Public Schools SWFWMD - (request future clarification on future development) Parks, Recreation & Conservation Department - (object if development has a negative impact on activities at adjoining SWFWMD & County owned facilities)

Hillsborough County Emergency Management Hillsborough County Police Department Solid Waste Department Tampa Bay Water - OBJECT only if NOT on public sewer system Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) Public Works Department Water Resource Services - need additional demands for determination