Longboat Library Clears Town Commission With a February Groundbreaking in Sight
—After two decades of false starts, a collapsed college partnership, two hurricanes and a $3.5 million fundraising drive, the Longboat Key library may finally...
Sarasota Residents Fight Over Flock Cameras as City Hall Reaches for a PR Plan
One of the city's own officers sits charged with running a single license plate 358 times. The governor has ordered the cameras off state...
Hart’s Landing: How Sarasota’s 90-Year-Old Bait Shop Got Lost in FEMA’s Red Tape
The bait shop is gone, the fishing pier is closed and the park under the Ringling Bridge sits behind chain link. City Hall says...
With 66,984 Tickets and No Traffic Stop, Sarasota’s Cameras Mailed $7 Million in Fines Last Year
In the 12 months that ended June 30, cameras in the City of Sarasota generated 66,984 notices of violation. That is 183 a day,...
Breakfast House Wins First City Sign-Off as the Bungalow Village Question Hangs Over Fruitville Road
The apartment deal that threatened Fruitville Road's painted cottages collapsed on a Saturday. On Wednesday, the block's best-known tenant walked into City Hall with...
The Sharky’s Family’s Bayfront Restaurant Clears Its First City Review, With a Brine Line in the Way
City reviewers took their first hard look this week at the 4,999-square-foot glass-and-coral-stone pavilion planned for the 10th Street end of Sarasota's waterfront park,...
Sarasota’s First Private Car Club Clears Most of City Review, With Strings Attached
Scott Stevenson's $6.3 million bet on a former drone factory at the edge of Gillespie Park won partial sign-off from the city's Development Review...
Owed $28 Million and Losing Patience, Longboat Key Takes Its FEMA Fight to the State
With federal reimbursements for the 2024 storms still stalled in a state-and-federal review pipeline, Longboat is asking the region’s next state senator to intervene,...
Longboat Key Takes Its $1.4 Million Amendment 3 Case Straight to the Homeowners
Commissioners are drafting HOA mailers on Town letterhead, lobbying Tallahassee and pointing at $30 million in hurricane bills. Sarasota, where the mayor is already...
City Says No to South Lido’s Problem Park, Citing Jet Skis, Trucks and a Battered Budget
Four months after commissioners talked up a takeover of South Lido’s most troubled public space, city staff priced it out and said no. The...
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