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...

Does anyone remember the 2050 plan? The idea was to respect and preserve the rural character of Sarasota County east of I-75. There was general agreement in favor of a concept -- that landowners could create master-planned communities east of I-75, in exchange for meeting higher standards of development and enhancing environmental protection. And, by supporting this alternative, environmentalists and others would accept development that protects and connects valuable natural assets.  Those were the goals then. How can they be remembered and embraced again? Source; Sarasota Herald Tribune 2.17.13 How's that working for us, facing the prospect of Racetrac 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

UPDATE: The rep for TerraCap, the Dailey Design Group , has postponed the Neighborhood Workshop on rezoning the Bee Ridge Park of Commerce .  They expect to announce a new date soon - the earliest date would be Wed. Feb. 20th. The date for the "Neighborhood Workshop" for the Bee Ridge Park of Commerce Rezoning has just been announced. It will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13th, at the Disabled American Veterans Hall, 7177 Bee Ridge Rd., which is a small building east of Aberdeen, on the north side of Bee Ridge opposite Middlesex. This meeting is the one point in the development process where the neighborhood has the chance to listen to and speak to the developer, TerraCap , a Canadian investment firm . The developer will present his plan, which was outlined for the County in December. It involves a rezoning that would allow larger and more intense development of the Bee Ridge Park of Commerce, a 54-acre site at Mauna Loa Blvd. and Bee Ridge Rd. that up to now h...