SCANNING Sarasota PLANNING

  Introduction   to   Community   Journalism   -   Tuesday,   Jan.   30,   6   p.m.    |   Doors   open   at   5   p.m. Free. Community journalism is a unique and nuanced form of journalism that calls for explanation. The characters are different, the stakes are different, and the audience served is different than that of a larger news outlet. Panelists and audience members will explore fundamental questions around potential differences and news judgment: What is news? How do we judge if a story is newsworthy? What is the role of a reporter in the local community? How can news consumers turn into news producers? In the second part of the event, participants will form groups, and each is assigned a "story" (affordable housing, overdevelopment/gentrification, cost of living, environmental degradation). Each group will decide how it would cover the story, who would be the audience, and what they would need to cover it. Facilitator: Johannes Werner --  WSLR' s news director. 

For Immediate Release For more information contact: Shawn Bartelt, President,  League of Women Voters of Sarasota County president@lwvsrq.org From Siesta Key to East County, What You Need to  Know about Sarasota County’s Growth Management. Register here to attend , or  watch on the LWV Facebook page   Wednesday, Jan. 24, 6 pm at Gulf Gate Library For four consecutive years in our annual Sarasota County Citizen Opinion Survey , county residents say growth and development are their top concerns. From Siesta Key to Lakewood Ranch Southeast, changes to our Comprehensive Plan and other growth management policies are impacting our communities.  The League of Women Voters invites you to  attend an informational event  about growth, the planning process and how citizens are getting involved. Presenters include Lourdes Ramirez, the president of Siesta Key Community, and Susan Schoettle, a former assistant county attorney and president of Keep the Country. Lourdes will discuss her legal v

Part of what has gone quite wrong in Sarasota County is the loss of daily, detailed, in-depth local news. It's more difficult for neighbors and communities to share and connect when the information we all care about is paltry, diversionary, or non-existent. So it's a good sign when a local radio station sets itself to build a strictly local news team. Given the rather notorious news Sarasota has been attracting recently, the timing is propitious. WSLR is building a dedicated local radio news team -- given that SCAN's goal is to connect our communities in aid of regaining our rightful role in public planning, it's great to know someone is taking the trouble to pay attention.  WSLR is also inviting all of us to a series of workshops beginning January 30 for those who wish to learn more about a) how community journalism works, b) how to participate, and c) how it can help us all connect.  Here's  WSLR's coverage of our January 17th meeting.

  Put People Back into Public Planning . . . Before Sarasota Becomes Unrecognizable Three Iconic Places Threatened The Celery Fields               Siesta Key                  Old Miakka Relevant Sites and Media: Sarasota Citizen Action Network           Facebook: S CANning Sarasota PLANning BLOG : SCANSarasota Email: SarasotaCitizenActionNetwork@gmail.com ======== Siesta Key Community - Lourdes Ramirez Protect Siesta Key No Mega Hotels (FB)                                                                               ======== Sarasota Audubon - Jeanne Dubi, Kathryn Young, Rob Wright            Sarasota Audubon (FB)      The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida (FB)                                                             ======== Keep the Country Country   Mike Hutchinson, Eileen Fitzgerald, Susan Schoettle Keep the Country Country (FB)                                                             ======== Citizens for Sarasota Coun ty - Tom Matrullo   Celery Fields Advisory Pan

   Via WWSB : Sarasota County community leaders discuss development      Community leaders from Siesta Key, Old Miakka, and the Celery Fields community gathered at Gulf Gate Library to discuss concerns over development in the county. (WWSB) By  Michaela Redmond Published: Jan. 17, 2024 at 10:27 PM EST Community leaders from Siesta Key, Old Miakka, and the Celery Fields community  gathered at Gulf Gate Library to discuss concerns over development in the county.(WWSB) By Michaela Redmond Published: Jan. 17, 2024 at 10:27 PM EST SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Community leaders from Siesta Key, Old Miakka,  and the Celery Fields community gathered at Gulf Gate Library to discuss  concerns over development in the county. The meeting started at 6 p.m. on Wednesday  and brought out around 50 people. “Little by little, in fact, I would probably so more than little by little at this point, our  open areas are being created as new developments. So, that recreational benefits,  the wildlife benefits, al