Fix It, Prove It, Elevate It: Sarasota Hands Shore Restaurant a Wall of Development Conditions
Sarasota's planners issued their comments on the Shore redevelopment Monday, two days before the Development Review Committee meets. They contain a long list of...
City Board Says Save It, Staff Says Let It Go: The Battle Over 1891 Wisteria Street
A modest one-story house on Wisteria Street, built when Sarasota was still riding the 1920s land boom, has become the center of a preservation...
St. Regis Denies Nearly Every Word of Longboat’s Case, Raises Six Defenses, and a Judge Sets the Arch Trial for January 2028
For a year, Chuck Whittall fought the Town of Longboat Key with photographs.He fought it from a Town Hall podium, from the driver’s seat...
Longboat Wants Homes to Go Up; Its Own Code Keeps Getting in the Way
—Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out of harm’s way. On June 22, the Town Commission confronted an awkward truth: the Town’s...
Inside Shore’s Latest Development to Remake St. Armands Circle
The developer who once tried to put a hotel behind these buildings now owns the buildings. The city that twice rejected him is buying...
Unanimous: Longboat Key Adopts the Canal Assessment — and a $620 Bill Lands on Every Waterfront Owner
After a quarter-century of deferral, the commission passes the canal navigation maintenance program 6–0 — pulling a Catholic church off the roll, fixing two...