Help shape Westshore’s future, take community survey

If you live and/or work in Tampa’s Westshore District, the Westshore Alliance wants to hear from you.

The Alliance’s 2025 online community survey of residents and workers is live now. It’s an opportunity to share feedback on transit, safety, housing, recreation, greenspace, bike-ped facilities, shopping, affordability, and a slew of other topics. The Alliance uses the biennial survey to gauge residents’ and workers’ overall satisfaction with the district, get insights on their daily routines, and identify areas of improvement and priorities.

“What we find, more often than not, is that, while people enjoy working in Westshore, enjoy living in Westshore, there are things that can be improved upon, especially as it relates to infrastructure, transportation, and recreation,” Westshore Alliance Executive Director Michael Maurino says.

Based on feedback from past surveys, the Alliance included additional greenspace and improved bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and connectivity as objectives in its strategic plan.

“When we encourage development, we encourage open spaces,” Maurino says. “For example, Midtown Tampa is landscaped to enhance greenspace.”

Input from the survey has also helped shape the Alliance’s advocacy for improved pedestrian facilities and transit service.

“As Westshore grows, those projects have to happen,” Maurino says. “Because we’ve run out of space to build and widen roads. You need more alternatives simply for the fact you’ve run out of space for roads and highways. We see that in the feedback we get in the survey. People want more sidewalks. People want more transit access. People want the ability to go downtown or to Pinellas County without having to drive, whether it’s through transit, or the Courtney Campbell Trail, or what’s going to happen next year with the Howard Frankland Bridge trail.”

“We see that a lot of folks in the Westshore District don’t want to have to use a car to get around,” Maurino adds. “It might be someone who works here and wants to be able to walk to lunch, or someone who lives here who wants to be able to walk to the grocery store.”

Past surveys have also revealed a desire for more park space and more accessible parks.

“Cypress Point Park is beautiful. Al Lopez Park is beautiful. But those are both kind of on the edges,” Maurino says. “They’re not really accessible from the core of the Westshore District. They’re also hard to get to if you’re not driving a car. That’s another reason we focus on pedestrian enhancements.”

This is the fifth Westshore Community Survey. HCP Associates conducts the survey for the Westshore Alliance.

For more information and to take the survey, go to 2025 Westshore Community Survey
For prior survey results, go to Westshore Alliance reports