The Lake Sarasota Community Blog

This email from a Lake Sarasota resident offers six strong reasons why the Sarasota Baptist Church / David Weekly Homes proposal for Hand Road must be revised or abandoned. Feel free to use these arguments - emails of the Commissioners are below. To the Board of County Commissioners From Jami Caseber: My family and I are opposed to the RZ3-19 as proposed for the following reasons: 1. Accumulative Traffic/Congestion We assert that the traffic study was inadequate and incomplete because it did not include traffic measurements at peak times such as when school starts and lets out, commute hours, church hours and levels on voting days. Because of congestion on Bee Ridge around Cattleman many people in Lake Sarasota are opting for using Hand to Proctor. However passage on Hand when school lets out is impossible. 2. Restrictions, Stipulations and Safeguards We request a revised Binding Concept Plan along with multiple restrictions stipulations and safeguards be implemented Significant Floo...

Notices about the proposed  80+ luxury home project with two entrances on Hand Road  have been mailed out, but it's unclear how much of the Lake Sarasota community is included in the mailing. Note that this project poses potential safety considerations for our school children as well as parents driving their kids to Lakeview Elementary and Oak Park Schools.  No traffic study has been done. The County Commission Hearing on Nov. 28th will be the final decision on this project. Here's a  link to the official hearing announcement , which indicates a 9 a.m. time, but this could be updated when the official Agenda comes out. - More information about this project and Sarasota Baptist's sale of acreage to David Weekley Homes, is at these links: We spoke at the Planning Commission Hearing . Two commissioners saw the potential hazard of the design and voted against the proposal.  Does this project invite danger? The Planning Commission is an appointed board  of Real...