Van Wezel Lands $3.5 Million State Grant While Its Fate Stays Unsettled
The Sarsota City Commission is set to accept a no-match DEP grant Monday for flood barriers, elevated utilities and wave-resistant hardening at the 56-year-old...
Sarasota School Board Fight Reaches Fever Pitch
—The campaign signs got to the schoolhouse before some of the students did.
—They crowd the corners of downtown, stand sentry along the streets around...
Sarasota Unanimously Suspends Parking Expansion After Merchants Storm City Hall
"Think about the psychology of a parking ticket. Giving someone a fine is a punishment. A punishment is designed to stop a behavior from...
Longboat commissioner blindsided as Sarasota erases second-bridge policy in split transportation vote
"That is total and complete traffic congestion. They are asking you to approve a document that would say the maximum traffic congestion a developer...
Sarasota Orders Rules for Condo Hotels as St. Armands Watches
The most consequential sentence spoken at the July 20 Sarasota City Commission meeting was not a promise or a warning. It was an answer...
Sarasota lags storm-battered neighbors on home elevation; Longboat feels it as well
Eleven Gulf Coast governments fixed their codes so flood-weary homeowners can lift their houses. Sarasota still hasn't.
—Amid a marathon Aug. 3 meeting consumed by...
The Reef Is Being Evacuated and Sarasota Should Be Paying Attention
The divers went back in the water this month, and once again they were not planting coral. They were taking it out.
—Along Florida's Coral...
Sarasota City Commission Meeting News Shorts: Alleys given away, apples compared to oranges, and a downtown building that looks ‘war-torn’
The Aug. 3 Sarasota City Commission meeting ran more than nine hours, gavel to gavel. Beyond the parking retreat and the transportation-plan brawl, here...
Sarasota’s Parking Revolt Boils Over as Ahearn-Koch Force a Showdown Vote
Nine speakers, a boycott, a viral video with 435,000 views and a restaurant now paying its customers’ parking bills. The July 20 commission meeting...
Sarasota Launches $8 Million Push to Underground Utilities on St. Armands & Lido Keys
Residents could see roughly $10,000 assessments over 20 years, with the first bills targeted for November 2027.
The utility poles of St. Armands and Lido...