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...

  Parents and schoolchildren on Hand Road - school traffic   Typically, in Sarasota, and with any SPECIAL EXCEPTION, AND REZONE if a landowner is seeking an increase in density, or change in use, or anything that does not explicitly meet the current code, specific RESTRICTIONS, STIPULATIONS AND SAFEGUARDS should be recorded and run with the land in perpetuity. Lake Sarasota is a 1,600-home community. We request a revised Binding Concept Plan  along with multiple restrictions, stipulations and safeguards be implemented in order to move forward at this time.  Sarasota County should not be adding additional burden to its current tax base by allowing a developer to increase its currently permitted density without such strategies for protection of its existing community members! We request the Developer and the County allow engagement of a Binding Concept plan that addresses the community’s CONCERNS!! List of Issues/Concerns:  Stormwater/Floodplain Hand Road currentl...