Impending Board decisions could endanger three icons

Three Endangered Icons

The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) is the most powerful group of elected officials in Sarasota County. They decide rezones, plan roads, approve huge new proposed developments whose complexities threaten to overwhelm the county's small staff of planners.

This is the current Board:

Moran                Smith             Rainford             Neunder            Cutsinger
 

Coming before these officials in the next few months are some dramatic and controversial proposals from some of the most powerful developers in the area.

Three plans could transform, burden, and deform three beloved, iconic places:

1. Lourdes Ramirez and Protect Siesta Key have a new video that graphically shows what will happen to Siesta if Benderson's mega-hotel proposals are adopted. 


It's short but it hits home - you'll want to write to the BCC - the addresses are in the post:


https://scansarasota.blogspot.com/2024/08/is-this-end-of-siesta-key-as-we-know-it.html


2. Mike Hutchinson and Eileen Fitzgerald tell us where things are with Rex Jensen and Pat Neal's plan to extend Lakewood Ranch to the East:


https://scansarasota.blogspot.com/2024/08/mike-and-eileen-old-miakka-update.html


3. Meanwhile, at the Celery Fields, DR Horton's proposal was supposed to be examined by the Planning Commission this evening, but this has been postponed - probably until after the August primaries. The proposal to build 170 homes on a farm site should be evaluated in light of the stormwater and flooding issues Horton building sites have created in at least four states:


https://scansarasota.blogspot.com/2024/07/stormwater-and-drainage-issues-plague.html


These are three of the most beloved places in Sarasota County - ALL THREE ARE THREATENED.



Before you vote in the August Primary, see who the developers love. 

 

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