tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31216939905808614292024-02-19T03:02:26.365-05:00Fresh Start for the Celery Fieldsgentle cultivation, not harsh industrializationFresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-89345144937485090232022-05-02T11:12:00.007-04:002022-05-02T11:52:46.391-04:00History of the Southwest Quad - Background Links <p>The links b<span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">elow go to</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Background on the Southwest Quad</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">- the one James Gabbert wanted for his WTF (Waste Transfer Facility). </span></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Board is now promoting a<a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2022/04/was-conservation-easement-bait-switch.html" target="_blank"> <b>plan to move the Florida House to the SW Quad</b></a> Parcel for use as a building industry showcase - in violation of the Easement the County granted with unanimous Board Approval in December 2019.</span></p><p><i style="text-align: right;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Thanks to Adrien Lucas for this selection.</i></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5352841350586592133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; 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font-weight: bold;">Useful Links, <br />Supporting Material & <br />Some Helluva Good Press from the Past Week!<br /><br /></i><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.yourobserver.com/article/conservation-concepts-roll-out-for-sarasota-county-owned-quads-land&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw31FcYCDXwZa3_a2lUW9Ss2" href="https://www.yourobserver.com/article/conservation-concepts-roll-out-for-sarasota-county-owned-quads-land" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Conservation concepts roll out for Sarasota County-owned Quads land</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Observer, Eric Garwood | February 20, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/07/sarasota-county-commissioners-decide-land-near-celery-fields-will-be-conserved/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw1jrNxReNvpjawLpIHSCEZD" href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/07/sarasota-county-commissioners-decide-land-near-celery-fields-will-be-conserved/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarasota County Commissioners decide land near the Celery Fields </span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/07/sarasota-county-commissioners-decide-land-near-celery-fields-will-be-conserved/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw1jrNxReNvpjawLpIHSCEZD" href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/07/sarasota-county-commissioners-decide-land-near-celery-fields-will-be-conserved/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">will be conserved</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">ABC Channel 7 by Rick Adams | November 6, 2019</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/ZcqsOFblmSo&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw0kfdzH2a_M4jOBtd9FNa1X" href="https://youtu.be/ZcqsOFblmSo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Celery Fields Protest Video presented to the Sarasota County </span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/ZcqsOFblmSo&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw0kfdzH2a_M4jOBtd9FNa1X" href="https://youtu.be/ZcqsOFblmSo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Commissioners at the November 6 hearing.</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Filmed by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://danielperales.com/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw1Aifu0OsSaimaCPFIvfPCe" href="https://danielperales.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Daniel Perales</a>, produced by Adrien Lucas</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191102/sarasota-county-residents-rally-for-celery-fields-and-denounce-lsquogroundhog-politicsrsquo&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw0DLXDkSB92X9bsSeDlwdlB" href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191102/sarasota-county-residents-rally-for-celery-fields-and-denounce-lsquogroundhog-politicsrsquo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarasota County residents rally for Celery Fields and denounce ‘groundhog politics’</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Herald Tribune by Anna Bryson | November 2, 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mysuncoast.com/video/2019/11/01/celery-fields-protest/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw1lrL1GXyJPTnc5ULKXdpZ6" href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/video/2019/11/01/celery-fields-protest/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Video Celery Fields Protest Live to VOD recordings of WWSB's newscasts</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">ABC Channel 7 by Taylor Torregano | Nov. 1, 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/01/organizers-plan-last-stand-celery-hill-protest-saturday-morning/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw2WlGw6zFHtHDyD2S0kI9VG" href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/01/organizers-plan-last-stand-celery-hill-protest-saturday-morning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Organizers plan 'Last Stand for Celery Hill' protest Saturday</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">ABC Channel 7 by Taylor Torregano | Nov. 1, 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20191031/seidman-deacutejagrave-vu-all-over-again-at-celery-fields&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw21tGpGRmFCXBUFinHV4p67" href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20191031/seidman-deacutejagrave-vu-all-over-again-at-celery-fields" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">SEIDMAN: Déjà vu all over again at Celery Fields</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Herald Tribune by Carrie Seidman | Oct. 31, 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/01/after-nov-2-rally-for-celery-fields.html&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw3dvbxh9Y45h-2CFsg10RbD" href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/01/after-nov-2-rally-for-celery-fields.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After the Nov. 2 rally for Celery Fields</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Citizen's for Sarasota County Blog by Tom Matrullo | Nov. 3, 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw2E4sNNknQwwM_RLcXXBjje" href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On Nov. 6, County Commission to discuss draft staff report </span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw2E4sNNknQwwM_RLcXXBjje" href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">that includes development options for Quads property </span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw2E4sNNknQwwM_RLcXXBjje" href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-nov-6-county-commission-to-discuss-draft-staff-report-that-includes-development-options-for-quads-property-next-to-celery-fields/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">next to Celery Fields</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarasota News Leader by Rachel Brown Hackney |Oct. 24, 2019</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw1IQRPcrLt7splryMZGOOgg" href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fresh Start for the Celery Fields</a>, a real-time blog holding any and </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">all things related to the Celery Fields and Sarasota County government. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Great place to learn what we are up against. A useful site for </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">appropriate cut and paste sentences for writing why you oppose </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the sale of the Quads.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/10/comment-on-critical-area-plan-for-quad.html?m%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw3NrQi9DGxW6Cl4kGL4hF6D" href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/10/comment-on-critical-area-plan-for-quad.html?m=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Comment on Critical Area Plan for the Quad Parcels at the Celery Fields</a>, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">a breakdown on the proposed county staff Celery Field Quad </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">CAP analysis to Sarasota planner Mr. Kirk.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">A video of Fresh Start's presentation to the Board of Sarasota County Commissioners on Sept. 12, 2018 that apparently fell on deaf ears.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/iNYNUsRsrEo&source=gmail&ust=1651583139262000&usg=AOvVaw2EY5LRavsK4CS6oKxo9YJE" href="https://youtu.be/iNYNUsRsrEo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0199a0; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Click here to View.</a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">=====</span></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0mNw5CIyhb-7o7p9xza3wNbcHtE7jSeZlBwriogHshW16WQAwRFP_UsY0pUT8NfZKs3mhwoksdz_rzwto5SNWwiAm4ko_KRJaE5j--n_4efmI6IjGolYQDL3xiZwp6aqj5LFU2Mo691Q3P7jJoi7BrgouJR-dVxw6uqdA_dgI247Fgo_Kt6s4A/s967/Building-Industry-Association-concept-plan-for-Florida-House-on-Northwest-Quad-for-BCC-June-2021.webp" style="color: #992211; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="967" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0mNw5CIyhb-7o7p9xza3wNbcHtE7jSeZlBwriogHshW16WQAwRFP_UsY0pUT8NfZKs3mhwoksdz_rzwto5SNWwiAm4ko_KRJaE5j--n_4efmI6IjGolYQDL3xiZwp6aqj5LFU2Mo691Q3P7jJoi7BrgouJR-dVxw6uqdA_dgI247Fgo_Kt6s4A/w640-h538/Building-Industry-Association-concept-plan-for-Florida-House-on-Northwest-Quad-for-BCC-June-2021.webp" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from the <i><a href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/with-detert-objecting-county-commission-authorizes-staff-to-negotiate-with-manatee-sarasota-business-industry-association-to-take-over-florida-house-lease-and-move-building/" target="_blank">Sarasota News Leader</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Manatee Sarasota Building Industry Association - a local </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">developer lobbyist group - proposes for the SW Quad a showcase that </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">would feature the construction industry. Originally proposed </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">for the NW parcel which the county still retains, the group has now </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">switched to the SW parcel.</span></div><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-23020638047017504952022-04-29T10:54:00.006-04:002022-04-29T11:27:18.976-04:00Was the Conservation Easement a Bait & Switch?<p><i><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif"><b>Mike Moran and Al Maio – </b>the two commissioners who voted for James Gabbert’s giant, outdoor debris pulverizing plant on the SW Quad parcel – are now pushing a building lobbyist's proposal that would put a builder's showcase there, despite the fact that t</span></i><i><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif">he proposal <b>violates the Conservation Easement approved by the Board in 2020.</b></span></i></p><div class="gmail_quote"><i><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif">M&M were joined by Cutsinger and Ziegler in the 4-1 vote to fast-track the BIA proposal.</span></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span face="Open Sans, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><i>Excerpts below are from the <a href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/with-detert-objecting-county-commission-authorizes-staff-to-negotiate-with-manatee-sarasota-business-industry-association-to-take-over-florida-house-lease-and-move-building/#comment-9439" target="_blank">4.29.22 Sarasota News Leader article</a>.</i></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">With Detert objecting, County Commission authorizes staff to negotiate with Manatee-Sarasota Business Industry Association to take over Florida House lease and move building </span></h1><div style="border: 0px; color: #595959; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">April 28, 2022</span> <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotanewsleader.com/author/racie/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw2iUhHkYXY5NYBk5MZcz5G7" href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/author/racie/" rel="author" style="border: 0px; color: #595959; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="View all posts by Rachel Brown Hackney, Editor & Publisher"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rachel Brown Hackney, Editor & Publisher</span></a></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Making the motion, Commissioner Moran calls for ‘plenty of public input’ on proposal during future board meeting</span></p><img alt="" class="CToWUd a6T" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgMH0BFakZTH2KPxgicnzEGHk1DD4gu151M9-IhaVCdty3v73aeOIqiBSqBFue2ORrN6eMrRkB-H3bpPQfxVfIHJWl3gDCur3_Z7LqL9OCXnyDY_pL-gj0N7lEBkSF4KXDfPH4BlBVmy-S-002MCye1mD1fenxBpRfqaAQpcGpThtNgjCBjwugvpVhW7FTDGJZ_m0aOWSDlpoOqfRP0WYlurKCBsk42sHB9trIeT8pJxC2hql2nHy26hzER3Y6MTSYLgdRjlCNMCo1DMU-ygRIlyMctMpc=s0-d-e1-ft&ssl=1" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="1100" /><br /></div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Commissioner Michael Moran this week won the support of his other three colleagues to authorize county staff to start negotiating with the Manatee-Sarasota Business Industry Association over the future of the Florida House.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Formally, Moran specified county talks with the Business Industry Association (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ms-bia.org/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw2Xj0Qxd8D3zpk1a2yv-Tid" href="https://www.ms-bia.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #8224e3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">MSBIA</a>) “and/or any nonprofit that’s affiliated with [it]” to take over the county’s lease of the 4454 S. Beneva Road site in Sarasota where the Florida House stands. That lease will end on June 30, 2027, county staff has noted.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Further, Moran called for allowing the MSBIA or the nonprofit to move the building before that lease expires.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The MSBIA has created a nonprofit organization called the Building Industry Institute....</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The MSBIA proposal in a June 7, 2021 letter from its CEO, Jon Mast, to County Administrator Jonathan Lewis — plus comments from MSBIA board member Teresa Mast, who addressed the commissioners at an <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open to the Public</em> comment period during the commission’s Feb. 8 meeting — included the desire <b>to move the Florida House to one of the Quads</b>. Those four county-owned parcels are adjacent to the Celery Fields.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Although the latter area officially is a county stormwater management project, it also is an internationally known bird-watching destination.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-unanimous-vote-county-commission-approves-conservation-easements-for-three-quads-next-to-celery-fields-to-protect-them-permanently-from-development/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw10HKX4svcKvDgBKDCkuJDp" href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/on-unanimous-vote-county-commission-approves-conservation-easements-for-three-quads-next-to-celery-fields-to-protect-them-permanently-from-development/" style="border: 0px; color: #8224e3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">In October 2020</a>, the commissioners voted unanimously to approve a conservation easement over the Southwest, Southeast and Northeast Quads, in collaboration with the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.conservationfoundation.com/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw3x1mccdK3C4TGxrayQcfHQ" href="https://www.conservationfoundation.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #8224e3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a>, which is based in Osprey, and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw2pMANfe48Av8GFWYocrwXI" href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #8224e3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon Society</a>.</p></div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The MSBIA has shifted its focus to a <b>Southwest Quad site</b>. ...</div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Detert said she objected to Moran’s motion. “We haven’t had a lot of meetings about it,” she began. “We probably need to.” ....</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">She said she believed all of the commissioners have met with MSBIA representatives one-on-one. “You’re kind of writing a motion in favor of one corporation,” she told Moran. ....</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">When Chair Alan Maio called for the vote on Moran’s motion, Detert repeated her objection to it. The motion passed 4-1.</p></div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">. . . leaders of the Florida House Institute — which has become Southface Sarasota — have adamantly expressed opposition to the MSBIA proposal.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">... former Florida House director Matt Ross, who founded the company <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ecosmartinc.com/&source=gmail&ust=1651329895661000&usg=AOvVaw0TMOEGJetAKewJNes3ahLk" href="https://www.ecosmartinc.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #8224e3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Eco$mart</a>, in 1993, stressed to the commissioners during public comments on Feb. 23 that in his 29 years of working with the Florida House, he had “not seen the [MSBIA’s] presence at all.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">When the Florida House suffered through “lean times” in the early 2000s, Ross continued, “Where was the builders’ association? They weren’t there.”</p><img alt="" class="CToWUd" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhfCQLIxORM5bPolzRsUhxs8FzZjopInEHyFtnVrAAGb8j_M58W3iEGuSZci00iaRfwSgpaPsdYOu2fi2Fi-ydXIqCGzn8Ai0tqS4WftnoT3KknpVSiRdWlr4lXW3BShD9W7geDujLKMhkU1cJ9B7xDqzg5EZmBu41L6pJs-EPYt981c7IaLv_DZpyQEuyCSUb5qp1fj1LAznwIv9BytqirCJ88SpL-bTZWQ3Z-Qz6392Ra37KpLXnZ8p3I5VkrK3YLJf39KkNJGtkIhZrwI92n=s0-d-e1-ft&ssl=1" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="160" /><div style="text-align: center;">MSBIA head Jon Mast</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img alt="" class="CToWUd a6T" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiCffnOtiJZvcP-_Lzr4sN6gAAnVHBAO5KGa-Qxy6hbBOOhny91NWN8kzNvgRgEmBpLUAKM0h0w_gSur0m6ZUw6DUJpd3Rk5D7tAdRui0Q0V8illitqiBsr5q1wki1VVRfr-09LUnFpSFpxI3bOInPB_wXMrO_KF3dfxzMVf7pGR8nNzbnKfdkOC_JlwwscbFmzKTkTiuNPYhIRO7x8Wz8JZELHbkMjtKJY4wO8kKfkVpGBOjA8qLWhig_HRiWs_8v-JrX5B5f8K4B6BDkZS41bnYu9xhJJhSrTBsk1cciX4mRclvk07oHOjsjxjhdgZvvVvpaEI4yrYQkquvIK2KkofdZVaNAzIaLa=s0-d-e1-ft&ssl=1" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="955" /><br /><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="CToWUd a6T" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj2W3I4dh_ECbatUKXQTg-Zngg6Es0qy8HgnOfIY51e2Kx1GpwUEKldyhufD5NWzwIGjIjfkF_DcF9ZKCmE07BBIL_vIB9TbE-kHCJk1O0cm-Tg0Vb7_BDcJh9vTuSKf5gh0l7FqirDOyseV-RMaQSM7Iy_wyduYZ8ym4f5hrUSieB2WvOTbXUcNADOFGt4engftDYFgttI0fRDF0LIQUuKBnPSHWPiaGaZD4JCW6qLiSg6flO9ZZrgM5YjYq1q9LBbL06VH_oBHw-r-9zLovs8VbYRsODPTyyTxtTNYuilOSiqexm43rPD_VM1f0dDnFcOPukrb0iXBQ=s0-d-e1-ft&ssl=1" style="clear: both; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="852" /></p><img alt="" class="CToWUd" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEihQC0BJ_tnAPzQ8IwgHqZdsjj9prsgn9HO87tInxetEgIEf34-aTdFHuElPhk2JJ2ZeiZZtywhKhsKuswl0xGssuad3GyR5wT3gctWT8djSbb91PWftXemADXRl2fcVD76GwbVnUcmxI3y126_udkONoPDmA4SrdKbw2jVVDYOs39xEDSDu5dk9jVfnL9OqmdykvhaxhUSk_oqpCxRPi1X74Sm79yQTpzqx4ZS_8KS_g06GCdKR2m76ZCVSDGzOPwGBfyypSJS4sDaN7LvzRT-3xCheV5WfbTaJaJn6nsDLOyKRGPvrtK1BOTj8JyMN3WzX3gR=s0-d-e1-ft&ssl=1" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="864" />...</div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="font-family: Tinos;">Notes below on key points -</i></div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="font-family: Tinos;"><br /></i></div><div id="m_-3548185581711034323gmail-m_-3720608085017798370gmail-m_371265101720244254gmail-pico" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">===========</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Some key takeaways:</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">1. The Board chose to promote one proposal – from a lobby, the Manatee/Sarasota Building Industry Association BIA – over Commissioner Detert’s motion to hear from staff about several options for the Florida House.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">2. The BIA Lobby wishes to take for its own use a parcel that was given to the people of Sarasota (via two Environmental Non-profits, Sarasota Audubon and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast) to protect a bird nesting preserve and to foster community with a civic use – a Sarasota history archive, for example.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">3. The BIA Lobby wants to rezone the SW Quad to ILW – Industry, light manufacturing, warehouse – apparently not finding any incompatibility with the Conservation Easement.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">4. The county’s own documents and Conservation Easement reflect the fact that the intent of the Conservation Easement was for civic or government use, and use by a private organization is expressly disallowed by its terms.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">5. Those who have had long and intimate participation in the Florida House say the Lobby has lied in pretending to have helped the Florida House when it needed it, or taken any interest in it before now.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="J-J5-Ji" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" id=":1bv" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; min-height: 28px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;"></span>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-7889163946146541072022-02-15T13:51:00.009-05:002022-02-15T14:33:22.205-05:00A Vision for Re-Wilding the Quads<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwBBBD3rXo4BxNs9JtZxK-PKWqwbs5DxiRnZZUe0R6g1GGm9w93_p5kQ7MXeGnOIfDS4dxwzh9bWxHWREONc2UwQaefnXWyjYmYA2yS9oiB68z3nyoSjrA-o27nXg8LwobN1I4SRYBoGMcFxjq7dTUknqnjjVKqHeU-ktF4d-6u78wIf-RhuZku9c=s2652" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="2652" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwBBBD3rXo4BxNs9JtZxK-PKWqwbs5DxiRnZZUe0R6g1GGm9w93_p5kQ7MXeGnOIfDS4dxwzh9bWxHWREONc2UwQaefnXWyjYmYA2yS9oiB68z3nyoSjrA-o27nXg8LwobN1I4SRYBoGMcFxjq7dTUknqnjjVKqHeU-ktF4d-6u78wIf-RhuZku9c=w400-h260" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Audubon's Dubi presenting "Re-wilding"</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The Fresh Start blog has been quiet for quite a while, but it seems the right place to post a happy update about the Quads from <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon</a> and the <a href="https://www.conservationfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a>.<div><p></p><p>In a kind of "sneak preview" given on Tuesday, February 15 at the Audubon Nature Center, plans for three Quad parcels were unveiled.</p><p>The plans have yet to be agreed to by the County, but -- with hopes that all will go well -- they're pretty terrific.</p><p>This is just a brief update - we'll add more detail, especially after there's been a formal agreement with County planning staff and the Board.</p><p>For now: </p><p>Jeanne Dubi and Christine Johnson made clear that the goal is about "more than birds" - it will be "a teaching and learning site," said Dubi. It will be about re-wilding, buffering, restoring clean water, introducing plants, trees and other features that will attract a greater variety of birds, give them resting places as they migrate between continents, and areas for local birds to forage and nest.</p><p>The greatest changes will come to the southeast parcel. They include woodland habitat through new forestation, a meadow and a "ravine," with a bird blind and weir. The northeast parcel will include grading the bottom of the retention pond so that birds can wade without falling into deep water. The water from the retention pond would feed an entirely new feature, a "ravine" on the southeast parcel - coming under Palmer Boulevard then surfacing on that parcel (photos below).</p><p>Beyond bringing back the natural potential, there's room on the southwest parcel for humans -- parking, recreation, open areas with picnic tables, bathrooms. Six acres of this parcel were reserved by the County for a government building at the western end, next to James Gabbert's Waste Transfer Facility.</p><p>There will also be internships for folks interested in learning about water, soil, carbon sequestration, working with government, and more, said Dubi.</p><p>She credited the community with rising up to protect the Celery Fields, adding "we're all in this together."</p><p>A meeting with the County is coming soon -- we'll be watching to see how that goes.</p><p>A lot of thinking from a lot of people has gone into this - let's hope the county has the wisdom to embrace it all, and help see it through. The re-wilded Quads will need funding, and eventually an endowment. </p><p>The visuals will be open to the public beginning Saturday at the Nature Center.</p><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU5uL6VZ3vjdFBPRHe0zLaifoxJ-xmkdj3gGMxkI_TC1d2ueFP9zw8Ed_fEjiOhrKOPbdrDVxc8dA8ewHFsOSqQuChiPlCmWFxspPf1Tzx6weLccn57s_5M9Uq1hGzKaN3MF0g8QspqDUcnLSk0J5sKUEJcGxHee8rHWOACd3Y2FFNIheiTrzdaxg=s2987" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="2987" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU5uL6VZ3vjdFBPRHe0zLaifoxJ-xmkdj3gGMxkI_TC1d2ueFP9zw8Ed_fEjiOhrKOPbdrDVxc8dA8ewHFsOSqQuChiPlCmWFxspPf1Tzx6weLccn57s_5M9Uq1hGzKaN3MF0g8QspqDUcnLSk0J5sKUEJcGxHee8rHWOACd3Y2FFNIheiTrzdaxg=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The NE parcel<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAyfV_Z6hcPJ5KRq3zSOV38qDR2EDP-CvvsylodNUl3muaHUas9cnaO1QVaXm9upNaKSqSaTZhJAzlrNjJyoQe1XHSs5PMPdMIPCHz3j7aT8ZFc2K2iqf77c0lZZArCQPJR3HcR_2pggwGkoLqR5wd583JJb9kg03igsR8r2iyaC66nGGSki7K4PY=s3418" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="3418" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAyfV_Z6hcPJ5KRq3zSOV38qDR2EDP-CvvsylodNUl3muaHUas9cnaO1QVaXm9upNaKSqSaTZhJAzlrNjJyoQe1XHSs5PMPdMIPCHz3j7aT8ZFc2K2iqf77c0lZZArCQPJR3HcR_2pggwGkoLqR5wd583JJb9kg03igsR8r2iyaC66nGGSki7K4PY=w640-h414" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proposed bird blind for the Southeast Parcel adjacent to the existing Celery Fields</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCXdq2ahxoJBXOAsoVt_B9EbJ4_tLfRJXKQyyuaKMgGHyUvfagt6Py0hwKaNPCj0kdGsqRqmLCo1oRrCAT5kPIaRa3do7JvTbt4sYow-1BZA-j4e2l-R632xxaZaCxXMMEFoKEjaPC3PCiIiFUX3LqQlgA01284h_SMG5BUjzPPOzH8XfjDWRQV0=s3401" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2102" data-original-width="3401" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCXdq2ahxoJBXOAsoVt_B9EbJ4_tLfRJXKQyyuaKMgGHyUvfagt6Py0hwKaNPCj0kdGsqRqmLCo1oRrCAT5kPIaRa3do7JvTbt4sYow-1BZA-j4e2l-R632xxaZaCxXMMEFoKEjaPC3PCiIiFUX3LqQlgA01284h_SMG5BUjzPPOzH8XfjDWRQV0=w400-h248" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Southwest Parcel with parking, playground, picnic <br />tables, bathrooms, open areas for recreation<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp_lXOae8J_dmUPQER7KR5RQ1sAqFilJTu3WzSW5GqaV9DtMGKN9X2cfMDoEtxWkLvQCGouH90_tzjjclqLcqtR11Qn6fZ1s_t87Q7V0t578JqymlOWAkMi-RW1sjdMjl018MQk-P4iSRTGDhfDBqNgu2zWHvYKla99eH22xa7fNKLAp8owZwdSQo=s2699" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2127" data-original-width="2699" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp_lXOae8J_dmUPQER7KR5RQ1sAqFilJTu3WzSW5GqaV9DtMGKN9X2cfMDoEtxWkLvQCGouH90_tzjjclqLcqtR11Qn6fZ1s_t87Q7V0t578JqymlOWAkMi-RW1sjdMjl018MQk-P4iSRTGDhfDBqNgu2zWHvYKla99eH22xa7fNKLAp8owZwdSQo=w400-h315" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The meadow and path leading to the SW parcel's<br />bird blind on the canal</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-9685154208574827902021-06-03T14:02:00.019-04:002021-06-04T13:03:16.359-04:00On the Conservation Easement of 6.9.21 - an Open Letter to the BoardTo: The Board of Sarasota County Commissioners<div>Re: The Quad Conservation Easement of 6.9.2021</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>On October 6, 2020, the Board unanimously <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/2/#">granted a perpetual easement</a> on three of the four Quad parcels to the <a href="https://www.conservationfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a>, with <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/the-celery-fields/" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon</a> taking on the task of managing these parcels within the scope of protecting, preserving and enhancing Sarasota County's Celery Fields area <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/product/donate-sas-quad-fund/" target="_blank">with the community's support</a>.<div><div><p>Visitors to this area -- there are many -- will think well of our county and its leaders for having created a gateway to East County, with its wide vista opening onto this special place. How many other counties can lay claim to a water management facility that birthed a bird habitat, a superb recreation area, and its very own mountain?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A12nWrSgPQozpPutEFS-uyjy1vnj3k1ZXWRqPbTnMqSleom2Fb2brBRFkJZk6RUUa9Ddc2hBCpPUU75ovvkLT73esr5TezdqoDtA5OZ2ugX9YBXqVJRqepg8VLnhKLTdqx3PGdviIEA/s2048/celery+fields+drone+shot.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A12nWrSgPQozpPutEFS-uyjy1vnj3k1ZXWRqPbTnMqSleom2Fb2brBRFkJZk6RUUa9Ddc2hBCpPUU75ovvkLT73esr5TezdqoDtA5OZ2ugX9YBXqVJRqepg8VLnhKLTdqx3PGdviIEA/s320/celery+fields+drone+shot.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Mt. Celery"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Valuable lessons -- too many to list -- can be learned from this four-year exercise in civic planning. Perhaps the most humbling insight -- for me at least -- is that while the goal is to plan well, one also should plan to be surprised.</div><div><br />Those who remembered the area's original sawgrass marshes knew that the regional water facility would attract birds, but could anyone have predicted that 246 species of birds (at last count) would <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">nest, feed, or visit here?</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TOg3Nk8lQWQApKLY9oAOmyFUVxGNF4vrWu3ud4pwaL8XceVue4b87SLyLK412c0F8P-ZVR8v-1YpUnIm_Sd2dG00DR0qWpPs8eZZ8hlt7h47TDUzmV_kVxv_DxGpzq4rWEohvzstznA/s1563/chuck+b+spoonbill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1563" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TOg3Nk8lQWQApKLY9oAOmyFUVxGNF4vrWu3ud4pwaL8XceVue4b87SLyLK412c0F8P-ZVR8v-1YpUnIm_Sd2dG00DR0qWpPs8eZZ8hlt7h47TDUzmV_kVxv_DxGpzq4rWEohvzstznA/s320/chuck+b+spoonbill.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Roseate Spoonbill</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>And no one imagined how many uses people would find for the pile of unsaleable muck folks now call "Mt. Celery." </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdrQjm8NXqroWKNxgi6K0qS3cMJcFjrJuXo710O-vrTpDGBVDAXGNleAaEETpDf50xKTWjQp1iPAmT4K11AnA_ZnrObQFOq0vwJKkcOQnKAwAetBfFIlQ9BYbhHXWHlT94bHdVdB-Pns/s2048/fireman+log.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1979" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdrQjm8NXqroWKNxgi6K0qS3cMJcFjrJuXo710O-vrTpDGBVDAXGNleAaEETpDf50xKTWjQp1iPAmT4K11AnA_ZnrObQFOq0vwJKkcOQnKAwAetBfFIlQ9BYbhHXWHlT94bHdVdB-Pns/s320/fireman+log.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Training to become a firefighter</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>The decision to grant a Conservation Easement for these parcels stands as a banner moment in Sarasota County stewardship. We've needed time to appreciate what the Celery Fields area could be; even more time might help us understand the wisest future uses for our community.<div><br /><div><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcB3aZXipziW4I_wOn1GyksPjcd0oONvYBR89KFwLuS0YUlOVUB3NR05skwdYqGU_03ezs-FC8Tstyb26WUfIX0IRPWwwqhiPUBdL5mOiDNhMG63jZnCFuFqcNzXcoGGe6pVo7O1u-t8/s480/bus-loop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcB3aZXipziW4I_wOn1GyksPjcd0oONvYBR89KFwLuS0YUlOVUB3NR05skwdYqGU_03ezs-FC8Tstyb26WUfIX0IRPWwwqhiPUBdL5mOiDNhMG63jZnCFuFqcNzXcoGGe6pVo7O1u-t8/s320/bus-loop.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Citizen Suggestion for NW parcel:<br /> Bus Loop pavilion for schoolchildren</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Your confidence in both the Conservation Foundation and Sarasota Audubon is well founded. The planning department's <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2021/04/planning-commission-to-consider-plans.html" target="_blank">Critical Area Plan</a> offers practical means to balance interests and uses, fostering compatibility under a unifying gateway vision. </p><p>I invite you to apply three important lessons going forward:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Consider this area as a complex organic whole</i> -- the Celery Fields has endowed the Palmer-Fruitville area east of I-75 with widespread recognition as a brilliant combination of public utility and natural beauty -- a "happy place."</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Welcome unanticipated perspectives</i> -- if agreement comes too readily, it might result from a lack of diverse and creative ideas. </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>There's no rush</i> - allow time for Nature and the community to teach us what needs and purposes these public spaces will best serve.</li></ul><p></p><p>Challenged by your community to produce a plan worthy of this place, you stepped up. The result is a natural treasure that developers and tourist venues feature in their marketing. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DcjJrq1cl67FOscSoxTPwjbc_5CdnAYdPEhVT5R4EzYMvrthNRC21PcZkD4_8Q9UK37T7Jk24C6jxAonbbszw8HH2fQ1ieFerDfx_FgvjIFp7HFBe_j1dXdYHrO1P2aG7qreud14SBY/s320/drone+shot+celery+fields.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="320" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DcjJrq1cl67FOscSoxTPwjbc_5CdnAYdPEhVT5R4EzYMvrthNRC21PcZkD4_8Q9UK37T7Jk24C6jxAonbbszw8HH2fQ1ieFerDfx_FgvjIFp7HFBe_j1dXdYHrO1P2aG7qreud14SBY/w400-h303/drone+shot+celery+fields.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>What happens from this point on can sustain the same high level if you remain transparently in touch with the community. We'll be paying attention, and we hope to be pleasantly surprised. - Tom Matrullo</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnEdlPJW7MuF0fTitTGgvR3rkfyz4H0fh9Qh2q5_VW7Kl7FBbV5mmvDrHTjJmGpP8LcsmelfsJeMW1lZZmRMnLeSkkfxP-7zUWLxDUllVU9NJU8p10EialmPhoSQJzYg-MlgFrHqJMc4/s1024/Audubon+Celery-Fields-Map-with-Quads-763x1024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="763" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnEdlPJW7MuF0fTitTGgvR3rkfyz4H0fh9Qh2q5_VW7Kl7FBbV5mmvDrHTjJmGpP8LcsmelfsJeMW1lZZmRMnLeSkkfxP-7zUWLxDUllVU9NJU8p10EialmPhoSQJzYg-MlgFrHqJMc4/w298-h400/Audubon+Celery-Fields-Map-with-Quads-763x1024.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/product/donate-sas-quad-fund/" target="_blank"> >>> Donate to Sarasota Audubon's Quad Fund <<<</a></span></h4></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></div></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-79795437169005645202021-05-26T12:39:00.002-04:002021-05-26T12:40:16.482-04:00Final Hearing for the Quads Parcels June 9<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 16px;">: </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as possible</span></div><div><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Location: </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">Sarasota County Administration Center, County </span></div><div><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"> Commission Chamber, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota FL </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div></div><div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">The Sarasota County </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">Commission will hold public hearings on amendments to the </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">I-75/Fruitville Road Major Employment Center (MEC) Critical Area Plan (CAP), and the rezoning of three of the County-owned "Quads" parcels. </span></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">In October of 2019 County staff completed a CAP study that identified the proposed </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">CAP </span><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">amendments intended to preserve the open character of Quads parcels. In October of 2020, the County Commission granted a conservation easement over three of the Quads parcels. The proposed zoning change of the three Quads parcels to Government Use (GU) will allow uses consistent with the conservation easement. </span></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" hspace="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi9209-BZbiLB5FoH4GJ6sS_WAcgTwKmD1ylYPJxuXtKvE-_RohoNH6R6juOK71LfkETic7KfQ_-eUR5ZzXb7ixBwKSTQlQiglJziuel6shqGeQpPNHknrLLu7yxpMwzXlWNFM-uBLjBcFvfVNbe9Vj_2OVYatnuuxhgLXcCG0_X_LHu_hSLAUAhlPFqFjZYxYzvQpHjTA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" vspace="0" width="274" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div></div><div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">All interested parties are invited to appear, be heard, and submit relevant evidence. A complete draft of the proposed Ordinances are available during normal business hours in the Planning and Development Services Department at 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota, Florida. Supporting documents will be available the Thursday prior to the public hearing at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001s6_hKeQM77sbD4eS11G1CnZOjWaPmuDWXpKrEqoQSFtqZihb_kw5_vFaf4Q29n4mSosFU7hg14MTTDKcpnPLZjk8FCFFIGnvua0_clWIrrTfbXNpv1MJmuRoGDIljCaVcVjO4pw_h8E%3D%26c%3Dmy5NAkpWOr6wVQGGHCdXFTT2sx7m_XRL1QJEg2hvtD04yaL7dBJ62A%3D%3D%26ch%3D2yEDf2Q5AWl_kB2FeT1z-bTFjAf7HDW-A_UvKUBMgDAHwymkcugOwA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1622133380314000&usg=AFQjCNGA21d3PJZNuoc4pl14UYDMGrxoyA" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001s6_hKeQM77sbD4eS11G1CnZOjWaPmuDWXpKrEqoQSFtqZihb_kw5_vFaf4Q29n4mSosFU7hg14MTTDKcpnPLZjk8FCFFIGnvua0_clWIrrTfbXNpv1MJmuRoGDIljCaVcVjO4pw_h8E=&c=my5NAkpWOr6wVQGGHCdXFTT2sx7m_XRL1QJEg2hvtD04yaL7dBJ62A==&ch=2yEDf2Q5AWl_kB2FeT1z-bTFjAf7HDW-A_UvKUBMgDAHwymkcugOwA==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #48a199; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">www.scgov.net</a><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">, Meetings and Agendas (Meetings on Demand) to view or download. Written comments will be considered and may be sent to the Planning and Development Services Department prior to the public hearing at the above address or by e-mail to </span><a href="mailto:planner@scgov.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #48a199; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">planner@scgov.net</a><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">. The public hearing may be continued from time to time as announced by the Board. For more information, telephone 941-861-5000.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div></div><div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">For more information about providing public input, go to: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001s6_hKeQM77sbD4eS11G1CnZOjWaPmuDWXpKrEqoQSFtqZihb_kw5_lHWd_DZi7gZAFPQHDVhj_6bpUFR3XUaooBt0a0SBrB8w0vCpNkUQ9-cmlfD-zW9JCo85VoYZpLnjrVR2-8cPUo5_9O0u_ILI5m-ADbBX2i9t6hSfgXjNqh8VcTS-Q_GXUrOO3EztsFonRvnloukdh-Ldwhb2w0PAlfjHycOMbiuzSBb5yrZe3YMM7vUOQHWr9_1VRevan506EmXGXusjUWYFEYYrtr_XxmPE6qsLzrY7vSMUSxSHuqz26Ds8KzwbCc_9izvYAwuf1wTVAtBAlsV1Fo9VlHNmmZ0eLMVdfeS8YJJnR1ve_r_rvykZzK5hP86vFFwD3iSKD76r1mxiiKp_wuow3Dj4rxbH52E6idoHjzzrdx_fObucTxemBWNijSbtTb6c-Xi3GWXG9Df3WD-GZiuJCDhreHUGTzDmxA_XnWT0-blkp_KGEvzySBucBI8X8PiLnz1HKziiBVWm-ZeD389xd_2HmNkrtP6kJyPhJ6IgGflybA29UvJOwPg5slFgAGaTDl9d7c8MoaG_Qo3vCdzuD0rVk4Ls46fo9Thhr5qm5ehLsNGD9PIe05Knqirt6KEqaunkEob1ohNr7i_wZhvvW083O6MkOvM7vZCrWrjSbYm5zL-R1HYXKJT4OH3vPuJMUqxxtG7JKbbsBnsgsKNP0X_H-bstKC9lLjUwa7yWN1E1aUmDUqrNnRY3cILq0RRCa93PtbyXaMm7CmIDEvSUM35_30p6brnBXjSvKEkkwgvGeYuRjHd85iag7Cm0op7VZPvXEG6XUtkBU8DxtmuMT8slqbllGYwUfvQQTgZQHD3ehAyM-1nTyu65-ac1kjviDT4XIoq9wRU1lcNsvbjm-sGHnpyca54aDtaT0p0pKYENS9rZyWfUamCQcGZr0fkZsSEyiK89nwOMceS3JNmyGDq-wXXYqVxoKFEdHg8ySpSSfXmo9sjnCAREhZaZR9hTRkMzX3iKkbUn2zenH159IQqcQzi2RxD6fvQS2qLGUdQRXY6QKHP1lDOZ8nwx_OUuMSMHX7ii5BCRYT14g2IAbGX8wDrLZLM-auI%26c%3Dmy5NAkpWOr6wVQGGHCdXFTT2sx7m_XRL1QJEg2hvtD04yaL7dBJ62A%3D%3D%26ch%3D2yEDf2Q5AWl_kB2FeT1z-bTFjAf7HDW-A_UvKUBMgDAHwymkcugOwA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1622133380314000&usg=AFQjCNGY5mVxyL2xCZKYrAX55A4rQgqLMQ" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001s6_hKeQM77sbD4eS11G1CnZOjWaPmuDWXpKrEqoQSFtqZihb_kw5_lHWd_DZi7gZAFPQHDVhj_6bpUFR3XUaooBt0a0SBrB8w0vCpNkUQ9-cmlfD-zW9JCo85VoYZpLnjrVR2-8cPUo5_9O0u_ILI5m-ADbBX2i9t6hSfgXjNqh8VcTS-Q_GXUrOO3EztsFonRvnloukdh-Ldwhb2w0PAlfjHycOMbiuzSBb5yrZe3YMM7vUOQHWr9_1VRevan506EmXGXusjUWYFEYYrtr_XxmPE6qsLzrY7vSMUSxSHuqz26Ds8KzwbCc_9izvYAwuf1wTVAtBAlsV1Fo9VlHNmmZ0eLMVdfeS8YJJnR1ve_r_rvykZzK5hP86vFFwD3iSKD76r1mxiiKp_wuow3Dj4rxbH52E6idoHjzzrdx_fObucTxemBWNijSbtTb6c-Xi3GWXG9Df3WD-GZiuJCDhreHUGTzDmxA_XnWT0-blkp_KGEvzySBucBI8X8PiLnz1HKziiBVWm-ZeD389xd_2HmNkrtP6kJyPhJ6IgGflybA29UvJOwPg5slFgAGaTDl9d7c8MoaG_Qo3vCdzuD0rVk4Ls46fo9Thhr5qm5ehLsNGD9PIe05Knqirt6KEqaunkEob1ohNr7i_wZhvvW083O6MkOvM7vZCrWrjSbYm5zL-R1HYXKJT4OH3vPuJMUqxxtG7JKbbsBnsgsKNP0X_H-bstKC9lLjUwa7yWN1E1aUmDUqrNnRY3cILq0RRCa93PtbyXaMm7CmIDEvSUM35_30p6brnBXjSvKEkkwgvGeYuRjHd85iag7Cm0op7VZPvXEG6XUtkBU8DxtmuMT8slqbllGYwUfvQQTgZQHD3ehAyM-1nTyu65-ac1kjviDT4XIoq9wRU1lcNsvbjm-sGHnpyca54aDtaT0p0pKYENS9rZyWfUamCQcGZr0fkZsSEyiK89nwOMceS3JNmyGDq-wXXYqVxoKFEdHg8ySpSSfXmo9sjnCAREhZaZR9hTRkMzX3iKkbUn2zenH159IQqcQzi2RxD6fvQS2qLGUdQRXY6QKHP1lDOZ8nwx_OUuMSMHX7ii5BCRYT14g2IAbGX8wDrLZLM-auI&c=my5NAkpWOr6wVQGGHCdXFTT2sx7m_XRL1QJEg2hvtD04yaL7dBJ62A==&ch=2yEDf2Q5AWl_kB2FeT1z-bTFjAf7HDW-A_UvKUBMgDAHwymkcugOwA==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #48a199; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">www.scgov.net/publicinput</a><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">.<wbr></wbr> </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div></div><div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status, familial status, religion, or genetic information. Persons with disabilities who require assistance or alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.), or who wish to file a complaint, should contact Sarasota County ADA/Civil Rights Coordinator, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota, Florida 34236, Phone: 941-861-5000; TTY 7-1-1 or 1-800-955-8771, E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:adacoordinator@scgov.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">adacoordinator@scgov.net</a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: #403f42; 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The upshot was some clarification of areas of concern. This exchange along with two recommendations for considerataion by the Planning Commission were then sent to the public record files as testimony to be included in the May 6 hearing on the Quads Parcels CAP:</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-UHT8V7fvDupWcmU2rZVbEnNa1UkVKQD/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Testimony to the Planning Commission, May 6, 2021</a></h4><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHaTZ75_PhKbocPlpGGQA9P7CleyMbE7QNAJ_envqeg45BvrqifBsjGDSniOv37UC0CTf1_7AJUNbP2vYv9zob6i3d996TZhvjhVG1X03nIaG7p6oJIjZIW5-RKSPPOsQiuZzv1L0szAC/s1001/Quads+aerial+for+CAP+2021+rezone+21-08.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="896" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHaTZ75_PhKbocPlpGGQA9P7CleyMbE7QNAJ_envqeg45BvrqifBsjGDSniOv37UC0CTf1_7AJUNbP2vYv9zob6i3d996TZhvjhVG1X03nIaG7p6oJIjZIW5-RKSPPOsQiuZzv1L0szAC/w527-h588/Quads+aerial+for+CAP+2021+rezone+21-08.png" width="527" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Quads 2021<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Sarasota County Planning Commission is set to consider the county's proposed Critical Area Plan (CAP) for the area that includes the Quad Parcels and Celery Fields at a <a href="https://www.scgov.net/home/showpublisheddocument/50530/637552245272470000" target="_blank">May 6, 2021 hearing.</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The plan proposes rezoning the Quads to Government Use (GU) and delineates constraints and recommendations to preserve and protect bird habitat and create a open vista -- a green gateway to East County.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">County Planner Steve Kirk put a lot of thought into this presentation, which seeks to honor the intent behind the county's grant of a permanent easement over three of the four parcels (outlined above) to the <a href="https://www.conservationfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a> and to Sarasota Audubon, which has had s strong commitment to the <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/the-celery-fields/" target="_blank">Celery Fields</a>, and which will manage the future redevelopment of these parcels. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Here's my email to the Planning Commission:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As one of the founding members of the <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2018/04/fresh-start-brings-community-vision-to.html" target="_blank">Fresh Start Initiative</a>, a community group that spent 10 months gathering <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2018/05/community-vision-for-quads-fresh-start.html" target="_blank">community input and recommendations</a> for the Quads parcels, I invite the Planning Commission to weigh in on the CAP as it now stands. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1. The Critical Area Plan seeks to realize the vision of a Gateway to East County, with an open viewshed, and new, Audubon-guided bird habitat. It stresses a unifying compatibility of architectural styles, setbacks, building height and more. However, while these constraints will certainly enhance the three parcels under easement, the Northwest Parcel has 4+ acres of developable land that will simply be rezoned GU. This acreage could be developed by the County or sold to a developer, with options for light industry, commercial, or residential uses.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgtwbSHcaAL__dMITolrRDN6gxs465RHJUjYsA5ys6cJuis-mcdPDz3W_VNWC9_i7JdtbziyYMbsn3F3YU9BFS6DK_QM1-lkC1wqhuNaGodstqkYS2_YgRyTm0_gEzMlfsxE0t5Z9tKDC/s1244/NW+QUAD+options+workshop+.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1244" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgtwbSHcaAL__dMITolrRDN6gxs465RHJUjYsA5ys6cJuis-mcdPDz3W_VNWC9_i7JdtbziyYMbsn3F3YU9BFS6DK_QM1-lkC1wqhuNaGodstqkYS2_YgRyTm0_gEzMlfsxE0t5Z9tKDC/w640-h550/NW+QUAD+options+workshop+.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wide range of options for the NW Parcel</span><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It would make perfect sense for the Planning Commission to strongly recommend that the NW parcel's 4+ developable acres have binding language stating that <i>any proposed use must be found compatible with the larger vision for the Quads and Celery Fields Area.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A four-acre warehouse serviced by giant 18-wheelers on the Northwest parcel would hardly be consistent with the purpose of the perpetual easement, or for that matter with the roads and residential neighborhoods on and near Palmer Blvd.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Fresh Start group did present a few community suggestions for the Northwest parcel. One that would both be consistent with the easement vision and offer practical help to motorists would be a bus loop enabling schoolchildren to get on and off buses without stopping traffic both ways on Palmer. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="250" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/EZeKXAX9Na4SGThQnsa7oQHHcn67e5C_cxh4Ik7GuP3IJv5zVNREb-ySG9DM06hpbkIT8PHmdFhdaOiSnv9ewIIHtWg2X6lWUdgDjHxovNONpuO8ccyAaoXfuVVF46v2vsrNTZPT-A=w355-h250" width="355" /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-df201d28-7fff-cf38-b242-e6205bf1abaf" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">The loop could have a pavilion with tables where children could sit out of the rain or strong sun, and perhaps eat a snack. Snacks could be provided by a rotating series of food trucks on an area set aside for this purpose.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Not only would this use be an asset for our children and help the flow of traffic, but it would also fit with the fact that, as public land, the Northwest parcel already holds a brand new fire station in suitable Old Florida style.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">2. Another noteworthy element of the permanent easement reserves the County's right to construct a building on six acres of the Southwest parcel. While the Board has spoken of using the land for a history museum, nothing in the CAP specifies this use, leaving open the possibility of some other Government Use on this parcel. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JmP2nl1uIIF7jpefoVYNRa67aumViX-o/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">GU, however, allows <b>a great many things</b></a><b> --</b> firing ranges, bus terminals and asphalt manufacturing among them. It would be a valuable enhancement to the Planning Commission review to recommend binding the use of the Southwest parcel to consistency and compatibility with the "Prime Directive" of the permanent easement: protection of bird habitat in the Celery Fields.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Finally, it would help to remind our community that Sarasota Audubon has taken on the task of shaping the parcels under easement. It will be raising funds for the purpose and we all should be both grateful and mindful that <i><b><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/product/donate-sas-quad-fund/" target="_blank">the commitment of Audubon deserves the support of all those who love the Celery Fields.</a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Very truly yours, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Tom Matrullo</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrCPTdd1kbs5EpF_zQyEYXaVS-30ELYeAO5NT8gZdml5qWLhaCvQPsunQ2mo7U8utlmOZwa_v0-IPWI-6L6fWk_XkmwlvVl6OfQCDc-rh2mcwGSWo4p7PLng-NsDMvpikrw-CXx0NMElk/s2048/Celery+fields+kayak-EFFECTS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrCPTdd1kbs5EpF_zQyEYXaVS-30ELYeAO5NT8gZdml5qWLhaCvQPsunQ2mo7U8utlmOZwa_v0-IPWI-6L6fWk_XkmwlvVl6OfQCDc-rh2mcwGSWo4p7PLng-NsDMvpikrw-CXx0NMElk/w400-h225/Celery+fields+kayak-EFFECTS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">======</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Note: Anyone seeking to provide comment or other input to the Planning Commission needs to <a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2021/05/county-must-step-up-concierge-services.html" target="_blank">register in advance at this link</a>.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-8128116043495675982021-04-07T08:07:00.006-04:002021-04-07T18:48:55.890-04:00Steve Suau selected to guide management of Quads at Celery FieldsSteve Suau had served on the Stormwater Advisory Committee and then as Sarasota County Stormwater Director when the plan to manage floodwaters endangering homes on Phillippi Creek took form. <div><br /></div><div>Along with former Commissioner Jon Thaxton and a few others, Suau laid the groundwork for what has become a phenomenal asset: The Celery Fields Water Management Area, now home to the Audubon Nature Center, protects homes from high water, cleanses Phillippi Creek of nutrients, provides a much-loved recreation area, and has created wetlands and uplands offering habitat for hundreds of nesting and migrating bird species. (Story below from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Sarasota Magazine</a>.)</div><div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8v_VBBKbYCmyPZWdlxJFXmhj06CMLkc1kTSd0o07jsO-ki8X09lyGn2b1XDc-tYyIrUEfma1MbL6Tqkd8ESNwlabs1Dy6ygX7nGALysNE6PhsyhOkD4mkVva_Cbj4dZT3NmNaW0CRpM/s2048/Celery+fields+kayak-EFFECTS.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8v_VBBKbYCmyPZWdlxJFXmhj06CMLkc1kTSd0o07jsO-ki8X09lyGn2b1XDc-tYyIrUEfma1MbL6Tqkd8ESNwlabs1Dy6ygX7nGALysNE6PhsyhOkD4mkVva_Cbj4dZT3NmNaW0CRpM/w640-h360/Celery+fields+kayak-EFFECTS.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Celery Fields (photo: Tom Matrullo)<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">The</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://conservationfoundation.com/&source=gmail&ust=1617877892685000&usg=AFQjCNGKE1MkfiScL7yc8ZOq2VTaz40nVA" href="http://conservationfoundation.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: small;" target="_blank"> Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon Society</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> have announced the selection of the Quad Parcels Project owners’ representative: Steve Suau of Progressive Water Resources. As owners’ representative, Suau will assist both organizations in managing the project from beginning to end, which will improve wildlife habitat, buffer the Celery Fields from industrial use and I-75 to the west, and provide low-impact public access. The 33 acres will buffer the western edge of the environmentally sensitive Celery Fields, a nationally recognized birding hotspot that is a vital part of Sarasota County’s water quality and flood protection system for the Phillippi Creek watershed.</span><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In October 2020, the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners approved a unique public-private partnership, which gifted a conservation easement on the northeast, southeast and southwest quads parcels to Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast—ensuring protection forever—and contracted with Sarasota Audubon Society to improve habitat and manage the properties. The draft design is expected to be announced in the next few months. The two nonprofits are fundraising for the project and anticipate a public campaign kickoff later this year. For more information, click <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://conservationfoundation.com/quads&source=gmail&ust=1617877892685000&usg=AFQjCNFrCZZ5Gc3eVY03QgfQbfdIUYKwjA" href="http://conservationfoundation.com/quads" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The "Quads":</span></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMg-TqsCmQv7lpJ9G83sGXOA29mQOzPoeigFfarmMHnZqkfmgvYFXqF_lSuhZ6p-vH-Hzuh3KlXRQMEoGog3yhc5LAJaVEmlI_xOJ7ZRD4UEsr0O0AnzjsuXB6AOBUMmD6Q7UDwGKdhQ/s893/County-Quads-fact-sheet-Aug.-2017-Page-2+snl.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="678" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMg-TqsCmQv7lpJ9G83sGXOA29mQOzPoeigFfarmMHnZqkfmgvYFXqF_lSuhZ6p-vH-Hzuh3KlXRQMEoGog3yhc5LAJaVEmlI_xOJ7ZRD4UEsr0O0AnzjsuXB6AOBUMmD6Q7UDwGKdhQ/w304-h400/County-Quads-fact-sheet-Aug.-2017-Page-2+snl.jpg" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The Quads Parcels - County Photo </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></p></div></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-68695532461934096592021-03-15T12:26:00.017-04:002021-04-01T12:16:49.689-04:00UPDATE on Quads workshop Monday March 22, 6 pm on Zoom<div>UPDATE: Here are the documents pertaining to the Quads Workshop of March 22, 2021:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AaeIBvXEYhhX_bnv7pRYkpEibwMkUf5u/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"></a></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AaeIBvXEYhhX_bnv7pRYkpEibwMkUf5u/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Neighborhood Workshop Application</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_e3NBBxoODRFqBeqJU2DnhWaNRSM7cx/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Workshop Powerpoint Presentation - County Planner Steve Kirk</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XqFzZo3mPiwYjDPSMfL0ueBdskjKkt0Z/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Recording of Workshop Discussion</a> (Video file 50 min)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G1gI6z9ly4a0ljjPpvsSphFK7QILQmECO_ZEnNRXpjU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Brief Summary of Quads Workshop Public Comments</a></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Related: The Kimley-Horn planning firm held a Neighborhood Workshop on 3.30.21. On behalf of Benderson Development, they propose to revise the allocated retail space of the Fruitville Initiative. Benderson owns the 40-acre parcel that borders the northern edge of the Celery Fields.</p><p>More including documents<b> <a href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2021/03/benderson-and-kimley-horne-want-to.html" target="_blank">at this link</a>.</b> </p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G1gI6z9ly4a0ljjPpvsSphFK7QILQmECO_ZEnNRXpjU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>===============</i></div><div><br /></div>There's an online public "Neighborhood Workshop" for anyone interested in the planning for the Quads Parcels and surrounding area this Monday, March 22, at 6 pm.<div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVJXrtKfEf_9R93l0p5erdP76UrHN4YS0aPf7TIDniApBoF8S9Wk1dKbcfedpEBpUub_LAFWwCbiuS-dk6Y81x09DFl59Jmf0MIFEcc2D1tB66-BcRMFUUrUEwJLL7v_rxQH4qi9d-sA/s2048/kids+at+Celery+Fields.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1429" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVJXrtKfEf_9R93l0p5erdP76UrHN4YS0aPf7TIDniApBoF8S9Wk1dKbcfedpEBpUub_LAFWwCbiuS-dk6Y81x09DFl59Jmf0MIFEcc2D1tB66-BcRMFUUrUEwJLL7v_rxQH4qi9d-sA/w223-h320/kids+at+Celery+Fields.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids at the Celery Fields</td></tr></tbody></table>The Zoom meeting conducted by Sarasota Planning will afford people an opportunity to hear the county's thinking about the Quads as a "Gateway" with an open, expansive "viewshed." <div><p>Three of the four parcels, which were placed under a perpetual easement in 2019, are proposed to be designated "GU" -- Government Use. The easement was granted on parcels 1, 2, and 4 to the <a href="https://www.conservationfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a> with the supervision of the <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon Society</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmaBwyFClBy7oL4ne1q82Ae6d2n4MKMhVr7z-XM13EtB6oeQ3zNBVVQPyDw9bdbxRgVfFfVhgZaCJaL4cEJHX5dYgKOrLqurHyDR5oSugLsma45xbGYvjb5CYniTDw0jEwjoXFu8xgof4/s1265/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1265" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmaBwyFClBy7oL4ne1q82Ae6d2n4MKMhVr7z-XM13EtB6oeQ3zNBVVQPyDw9bdbxRgVfFfVhgZaCJaL4cEJHX5dYgKOrLqurHyDR5oSugLsma45xbGYvjb5CYniTDw0jEwjoXFu8xgof4/w400-h299/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Quads parcels</td></tr></tbody></table><p>One parcel -- #3 to the Northwest -- is proposed to be rezoned for a variety of possibly private uses, including light industry, on its "developable" four acres. This was done at the direction of Commissioner Al Maio. The northwest parcel already has a Fire Station.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MpbRbHPWwuVIpRgLox5SWVLdexzWWLbaKUePVN_0dKnA5F0HjQPD2YoAFb1DZrPSWckyA6Jc5Vn7myV2U9nRSVNFdi580xa-mPLR7YYXAjTsIF_bVZQlWoV9EfSDRPUr5zTj6wnMTLw/s1133/Quads+parcel+%2523+3+rezoning.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1133" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MpbRbHPWwuVIpRgLox5SWVLdexzWWLbaKUePVN_0dKnA5F0HjQPD2YoAFb1DZrPSWckyA6Jc5Vn7myV2U9nRSVNFdi580xa-mPLR7YYXAjTsIF_bVZQlWoV9EfSDRPUr5zTj6wnMTLw/w640-h370/Quads+parcel+%2523+3+rezoning.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proposed rezoning designations<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Under terms of the Conservation Easement worked out with the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast and Sarasota Audubon, the easternmost 6 acres of parcel #2 (southwest parcel) can be used for a civic structure. A history museum has been mentioned as one possibility for that section. The remainder of parcels 1, 2, and 4 will be under Audubon supervision as natural habitat consistent with the existing Celery Fields birding areas.</div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The workshop will be Zoom Meeting:<p><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: inherit;"><b>Monday, March 22, 2021 at 6 PM EDT – 7 PM EDT</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: inherit;"> Duration: 1 hr</span></p><p> Open to the Public</p><div class="dati1w0a hv4rvrfc" style="font-family: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql gk29lw5a a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><a href="https://scgov.zoom.us/j/89341620334" target="_blank">Link to the Zoom meeting</a><br /><br /></b></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><a href="https://www.scgov.net/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/15086/" target="_blank">Planning Dept. notice of the meeting</a><br /><br /></b></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_0H6bZwzrNu2IL3FjPvrAIwfEuucl4M/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">The proposed rezonings are documented at this link</a></b></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AaeIBvXEYhhX_bnv7pRYkpEibwMkUf5u/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><b>A similar document with proposed rezonings that is geared to the 3.22.21 Workshop</b></a></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></span></div></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-77027446460258077422020-10-08T09:31:00.006-04:002020-10-08T10:47:22.649-04:00Audubon's Dubi: Quad Parcels are Public Lands Forever<p> A letter from Jeanne Dubi of Sarasota Audubon -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmsjTrmkf7lRauNYmqmbGyk7KNuyrOU6YS5md5DJxXxo9cLm978m6QtObKnOyrWs4QywYW6RNzirz64fxrGSu3mwR9fTip7sfxEq7gdYgY-bBs3zMH62pCq_sDoaO7D78UXKoargCGtAc/s600/celery+fields+spoonbills+jessica+arman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="435" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmsjTrmkf7lRauNYmqmbGyk7KNuyrOU6YS5md5DJxXxo9cLm978m6QtObKnOyrWs4QywYW6RNzirz64fxrGSu3mwR9fTip7sfxEq7gdYgY-bBs3zMH62pCq_sDoaO7D78UXKoargCGtAc/w290-h400/celery+fields+spoonbills+jessica+arman.jpg" width="290" /></a></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxsMf-Bu-kbLNP2UB1eTOeEsa4Ixgt6SYS6zCfzrp5MTQyNCbmZtgkDaepl4oHpoBNaHQzeWhC6N01ACOe5oODHsKRhjNWyucHEMlbMw4XyoK50t2PPcMS5T4fdiIM4Ydhhq7BPI76_BG/s1062/audubon+letter+dubi.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="846" height="715" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxsMf-Bu-kbLNP2UB1eTOeEsa4Ixgt6SYS6zCfzrp5MTQyNCbmZtgkDaepl4oHpoBNaHQzeWhC6N01ACOe5oODHsKRhjNWyucHEMlbMw4XyoK50t2PPcMS5T4fdiIM4Ydhhq7BPI76_BG/w605-h715/audubon+letter+dubi.png" width="605" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Audubon has set up a special account for the restoration of the Quad Parcels. <div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/product/donate-sas-quad-fund/" target="_blank">Donate to the SAS Quad Fund here</a></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnuZ6p8p126GPFp67WFbiGS-PAYvRn-WObC8zaYLUq_5qRsa549aZT98j-ivvLjGqpB2N5SYlOWVrArbbEyoUVOQeBbR0Cd5ukr1nTHNwY8L4iKSyFNJ4ZvXOK1xlgP_4-8_YUEXEbQbcS/s1265/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1265" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnuZ6p8p126GPFp67WFbiGS-PAYvRn-WObC8zaYLUq_5qRsa549aZT98j-ivvLjGqpB2N5SYlOWVrArbbEyoUVOQeBbR0Cd5ukr1nTHNwY8L4iKSyFNJ4ZvXOK1xlgP_4-8_YUEXEbQbcS/w400-h299/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-63565048315073013342020-10-03T12:01:00.008-04:002020-10-03T13:00:38.071-04:00Future for the Quads: Agreements come to the Board Oct. 6<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IMsjACIYlWP-OiMooSiNzPQYSUPbC9JhhkY5MR7bwRxZa9545uNAK8fK-B4n83KtfOxBa9Xs5BmFViEc1gWHtyZo76sONfempSAeyUHHs9G_ZuNJQZ-m1jNFdQseBRIpiTRBmsILFQ/s1600/drone+shot+celery+fields.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="1600" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IMsjACIYlWP-OiMooSiNzPQYSUPbC9JhhkY5MR7bwRxZa9545uNAK8fK-B4n83KtfOxBa9Xs5BmFViEc1gWHtyZo76sONfempSAeyUHHs9G_ZuNJQZ-m1jNFdQseBRIpiTRBmsILFQ/w400-h303/drone+shot+celery+fields.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This Tuesday, Oct. 6, a plan for the Quads parcels at the Celery Fields comes before the Board for approval. It's a plan that contains two Agreements: one places perpetual easements on three of the four parcels; the second provides for the design of what the three parcels will becomes, with Audubon agreeing to play a major role.</p><p>In a nutshell, the County grants a perpetual easement for three of the four parcels:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUfNGFIQZ9CJ6qAjh-Cv-Nx1VW34gG-8SexQQMkmYPNgOZayjZa_Uip6Qz5Q6dKyOsnTLoeh3_3HxTzrNu33hMs4JMWKLeR9r0r06tS2jzRj-UGHneAuXaDoWiNy19ZNgjqd37sPD5g/s1322/quads+easement+agreement.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1322" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUfNGFIQZ9CJ6qAjh-Cv-Nx1VW34gG-8SexQQMkmYPNgOZayjZa_Uip6Qz5Q6dKyOsnTLoeh3_3HxTzrNu33hMs4JMWKLeR9r0r06tS2jzRj-UGHneAuXaDoWiNy19ZNgjqd37sPD5g/w640-h342/quads+easement+agreement.png" title="Easement Agreement between Sarasota County and Conservation Foundation" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijF0DW790su0wE29d98gfHXbDa2-kJGFbUO5JKWT_NrIYZff-Ma8k62EZGhUkbTIu5UL7wzqzdWRcDlXWZXuhsyyi6gizQo15dREC4YE1rsb2qp16yOOuGLEccEbEHG3p9K4hzceh7EQ/s1265/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1265" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijF0DW790su0wE29d98gfHXbDa2-kJGFbUO5JKWT_NrIYZff-Ma8k62EZGhUkbTIu5UL7wzqzdWRcDlXWZXuhsyyi6gizQo15dREC4YE1rsb2qp16yOOuGLEccEbEHG3p9K4hzceh7EQ/w400-h297/County-Quad-parcels-for-surplus-lands-for-budget-discussion-BCC-Nov.-28-2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The two agreements -- worked out in private with the<a href="https://conservationfoundation.com/" target="_blank"> Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast</a> and <a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon</a> -- set a future course for these parcels, marked as #1 (SE), #2 (SW) and the NW parcel with retention pond. Parcel #3 (NW) has a new fire station and about 6 acres reserved by the County for future development (at Commissioner Maio's recommendation).</p><p>Below are links to the Memorandum and two Agreements which the Board is set to vote on:</p><p> 1. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ckPI_ndiMerJFHii6QtN_m-iifo6Lxrr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">County Memo explaining the background and purpose of the agreements.</a></p><p> 2. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1apYrJ7GNIrQmVjmq6YCVW-mZNqhkuPXp/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Conservation Easement Agreement with Conservation Foundation</a></p><p> 3. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10AAuZehGMp8uom-0ZT_YcJjLH-CB59RR/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Management Agreement with Sarasota Audubon</a></p><p></p><blockquote><b>Editor's note: </b><p><i>The Conservation Agreement includes two "development envelopes." One allows the construction of a building of up to 40,000 s.f. on the western six acres of the SW parcel #2. Uses for the facility are limited to government, civic, recreational, education and conservation. Earlier discussions with the community included possibilities such as a history museum, visitor and nature center, or cafe.</i></p><p><i>The second envelope allows for the construction of "limited public amenities" -- restrooms, a pavilion, parking -- on a quarter acre of the eastern portion of the same parcel #2. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrCFBXd8SoBBrt1JsjojK4m9XIagFP9HFi0_i7H_EJ7p92rjeDLt-grGD8yIPuY_IDVgnB3WeFVXkwX3Tly5thQfbpLUESQBDeDn2EAIX5nGc86j0-m-L5GCTXJ3kBmeSsT1nW0X0ew/s981/quads+management+agreement+map.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrCFBXd8SoBBrt1JsjojK4m9XIagFP9HFi0_i7H_EJ7p92rjeDLt-grGD8yIPuY_IDVgnB3WeFVXkwX3Tly5thQfbpLUESQBDeDn2EAIX5nGc86j0-m-L5GCTXJ3kBmeSsT1nW0X0ew/w549-h640/quads+management+agreement+map.png" width="549" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.scgov.net/Home/ShowDocument?id=47324" target="_blank">The Agreements are listed as Item 18 on the Board's Consent Agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 6</a></p>Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-85807059098417038522020-08-04T22:09:00.003-04:002020-08-04T22:10:16.953-04:00A petition for the Celery Fields community <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At this writing, my son and I are fortunate to be spending a few days in the hills of Western North Carolina. It's a welcome break. But as I took this photo an hour ago from a serene hilltop overlooking the Smokies, I thought of the days I've experienced a sense of solace and tranquility -- looking East in the mornings or West in the evenings -- from our Celery Fields sanctuary and the vantage of its marvelous hill.</div>
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It was a community effort that saved this place. Without you, James Gabbert's 16-acre waste facility would be pulverizing construction debris every day next to our nesting wetlands, to the thunder of large trucks pounding Palmer Blvd. </div>
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Personally I can't in good faith ignore the fact that Mike Moran, now seeking reelection in District 1, voted to approve Gabbert's project. It was the overwhelming work of all of you that saved this place. Now, backed by developer money and anonymous PAC funding, Mr. Moran wants our vote to exercise power for four more years.</div>
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Fortunately he faces opposition from a Republican who cares about the environment -- Mike Hutchinson. And Mark Pienkos, a Democrat, is ready to face the winner of the August 18 Primary on Nov. 3.</div>
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It's perhaps not surprising that Mr. Moran has declined to appear in person to share his views -- the virus is a reasonable excuse. But he has also refused invitations to appear online and face his opponents; he has refused to talk with a reporter doing an article about the District 1 race, and he has bombarded us with photos of himself holding a gun -- as if this somehow assured us that he'll do right by our neighborhoods, our environment, and our quality of life.</div>
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What's even more surprising than this candidate's refusal to discuss his record with both constituents and the Press is that the Press - at least so far - is giving him a free pass. Instead of calling him out and noting that he's avoiding the most basic responsibilities of a candidate for public office, our mainstream Media see Mr. Moran's desire to duck public scrutiny of his record and are looking the other way.</div>
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Because that's the case, I ask that you join me in signing a Petition to demand that our Media engage our candidates -- all of them. No one deserves special treatment, especially a candidate who's proven he can listen to an entire community's pleas for the Celery Fields and ignore every one of us for the sake of one rich man's dump.</div>
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Your signature will challenge our local Media to challenge Mike Moran and all our candidates to face the people's issues and questions -- openly, honestly, and without gun in hand.</div>
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Via a conference call on Thursday, Christine Johnson updated progress on the Quad parcels and other projects.</div>
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<li>Parcels 1 and 4 - the Eastern quad parcels - are to be left natural for the most part. Johnson did say there could be some work to bring the canal that runs between the SE parcel and the Celery Fields to a better level of development. I.e., it has paths where people walk, run, bicycle - these might be improved.</li>
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Once these easements are in place, the property will be left to the CF and Audubon to develop and maintain. It is anticipated there will be no county funding. Here's where the community is likely to be invited to step up and help out.</div>
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The Foundation is also working toward solutions for other properties, including the giant Orange Hammock near North Port. The latest on this 5,500-acre site is that the CF has until June 1 to come up with $1.5 million for it. Johnson said this is a key project in that it not only means fewer homes, but also protects drinking water, serves as animal habitat, protects against floods, and still offers recreative and eco-tourism uses. Amazingly, Johnson says the CF is already 41% on its way to the $1.5 million needed.<br />
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They're still concerned with water, and will be giving several talks on the results of a year's research on nutrients in our soil, and how they affect our bays and waterways. It's a wake-up call for us all. </div>
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This was shared by Kafi Benz at last evening's CONA meeting.<br />
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In addition at CONA, those attending heard a good deal of information on the <a href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/12/environmental-coalition-issues-joint.html" target="_blank">Fish Farm proposed offshore</a> from Justin Bloom and Julie Miller, and about efforts to speed the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3wQrRxjFE-zWW9JSHJmczlVbkFQc1AzVExfeTNnbHFONnFN/view" target="_blank">transition to renewable energy</a> from Sean Sellers of the Suncoast Climate Justice Coalition:</div>
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<i>My Suncoast </i> <a href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/07/sarasota-county-commissioners-decide-land-near-celery-fields-will-be-conserved/" target="_blank">11.07.19 Public lands near Celery Fields - at least three of the four - to be conserved </a><br />
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<i>Adrien Lucas: </i><a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/11/lucas-we-won-but-gabberts-wtf-needs-to.html" target="_blank">We won - but Gabbert's WTF needs to be watched</a><br />
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<i>Sarasota News Leader:</i> <a href="https://sarasotanewsleader.com/conservation-easement-to-be-placed-on-three-of-countys-quads-parcels-adjacent-to-the-celery-fields/" target="_blank">Conservation easement to be placed on three of county’s Quads parcels adjacent to the Celery Fields</a><br />
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<i>Herald Tribune:</i> <a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191106/sarasota-county-agrees-to-save-rsquoquadsrsquo-land-near-celery-fields" target="_blank">Board agrees to save Quads</a><br />
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<i>Observer</i> <a href="https://www.yourobserver.com/article/protestors-want-undeveloped-celery-fields-as-county-commission-approves-easement" target="_blank">Protesters want undeveloped Celery Fields as County Commission approves Easement</a> (not just "protesters," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_Media_Group" target="_blank">Matt Walsh</a>)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Our rally this past Saturday (11/2/19) was uplifting! Over 150 people took time from their busy schedules to gather at our Sarasota County Quad properties to demonstrate to the SRQ County Commissioners that pretending to be blind to their community is unacceptable and their intent to sell the public owned Quads for industrial development is not something the voting public will accept. This is Groundhog Politics but we will break the broken cycle of Sarasota County Commissioners who take license with our liberty and evaporating green spaces for the handful of developers in town who apparently the Commissioners work solely for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The fight to Save Our Celery Fields is not over. Details of this week's upcoming County Board meeting (Nov. 6) may be found in this email below as with a ton of links to recent press about our efforts. I cannot do this without you and the Saturday protest helped raise community spirit, awareness and energy for the future fight against the Commissioners ill intent to harm our community by selling OUR CELERY FIELDS QUADS for development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">While setting up for the rally, I found it amusing and yet heartbreaking as I watched two Sand Hill Cranes fly over Gabbert's dump being built and the Quad parcel that our Commissioners tried to sell to Mr. Gabbert for his dump in 2017. County Staff reports they have never seen any animal/bird activity on these Quads and yet the </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mX3d8HYqk/" style="color: #0199a0; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;" target="_blank">Sarasota County Instragram page</a> <span style="font-size: 16px;">has a picture of Sand Hill Cranes stating they mate for life. If only the Commissioners would open their eyes to nature in real life, at some point, pictures will be the only thing left of the dwindling birds and wildlife that our County uses for marketing purposes. They just don't get it. Instead the Commissioners want to introduce even more traffic of semi's/trucks on to what are already considered a big F - failing level of service for area roads. What a "gift" for the people who live off or near Palmer Boulevard; what a "gift" for the Sand Hill Cranes who mate for life and get creamed on a regular basis on Palmer Boulevard. Thanks Commissioners, I think you are earning a big F for your level of service to the community!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A mighty giant thanks to all who attended the rally and to all who have emailed the Commissioners voicing your opposition. Please keep the faith, we are on the right side of community and we will prevail. I hope to see you Wednesday at the Commission meeting, again, details below.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/11/01/organizers-plan-last-stand-celery-hill-protest-saturday-morning/" style="color: #0199a0;" target="_blank">Organizers plan 'Last Stand for Celery Hill' protest Saturday</a></div>
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<a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/01/after-nov-2-rally-for-celery-fields.html" style="color: #0199a0;" target="_blank">After the Nov. 2 rally for Celery Fields</a></div>
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<a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html" style="color: #0199a0;" target="_blank">Fresh Start for the Celery Fields</a>, a real time blog holding any and all things related to the Celery Fields and Sarasota County government. Great place to learn what we are up against. This is a useful site for appropriate cut and paste sentences for writing why you oppose the sale of the Quads.</div>
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A video of Fresh Start's presentation to the Board of Sarasota County Commissioners on Sept. 12, 2018 that apparently fell on deaf ears. <a href="https://youtu.be/iNYNUsRsrEo" style="color: #0199a0;" target="_blank">Click here to View.</a></div>
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Above: A selection of <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/oVn6EDhcrwkzHceh9" target="_blank">photos by Miri Hardy</a> taken at the Nov. 2, 2019 Peaceful Protest to express public outrage at the <a href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/01/after-nov-2-rally-for-celery-fields.html" target="_blank">prospective rezoning and sale of the Quads, public lands at the Celery Fields,</a> to private developers.<br />
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Photos #7, #8 and #10 came from Dennis Robertson -- thanks!<br />
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<a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Celery-Fields-County-Meeting-Nov--6--Save-the-Date--Call-for-Action-and-Pics-from-our-Protest.html?soid=1133329811588&aid=VCf4Vp1EvEE&fbclid=IwAR3k468ak84vEWFa2S2KmJgydunXcP_SEq7m-XJ42gytHtKy0yaj0-Ix2Yg" target="_blank">More information here from organizer Adrien Lucas</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/join--publiclands-to-celeryfields?" target="_blank">Please sign the Petition to save our public lands and protect our birding and recreational lands.</a><br />
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<br />Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-16730821667111253342019-10-28T16:21:00.002-04:002019-10-28T21:01:20.855-04:00Groundhog Day at the Quads: Nov. 2, 10 a.m.<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sarasota Board of County Commissioners has initiated a "CAP" / Critical Area Plan report for the public lands known as “the Quads” adjacent to the Celery Fields. That plan will be heard at their November 6th meeting. What the Board decides holds the future for these public lands. We must stop them for good this time and ensure that our Quad properties are saved from development.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHAT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: A peaceful rally to protest against the Sarasota Board of Commissioners ignoring robust community opinion regarding rezones and sales of public lands surrounding Our Celery Fields owned by the people of Sarasota County.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PARKING:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Off of Palmer Road, park your car on the berm of Palmer Road where it is legal to park: we encourage people to carpool and to leave the Celery Fields parking lot open for visitors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHO</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: A broad-based, non-partisan group of Sarasota County taxpayers, Neighborhood Association members, Sarasota Bird Watchers and Park-Goers will be gathering in protest to what continues to be <a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/10/development-interests-seek-to-protect.html" target="_blank">one of a growing number of “biggest blunders” by Sarasota County Government officials.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">2017: we defeated the county from selling quad properties to Saudi-owned Restaurant Depot and we kept TST Ventures from building a debris demolition facility next to Our Celery Fields. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">2018: Sarasota County Commissioners hired a consultant to study the “highest and best use” of the Quads, spending $61K to rubber stamp what the board has always wanted -- the consultant returning the verdict of best use as “industry.” The county commissioners ignored thoughtful and well-prepared community input by numerous community groups, so, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Here we are again: “County Groundhog Day” fighting for the commissioners to back off and recognize that the County is failing to adhere to its own standard that "Zoning's fundamental purpose is to Protect a Community's Health, Safety and Welfare."</span></div>
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<span id="m_-8964901503523081594gmail-docs-internal-guid-ae87b910-7fff-a04d-7b98-762c7bd60c24">I wish to point you to a concept touched on in a story in today's <i>Herald Tribune</i>, entitled <b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191013/celery-fields-lovers-keep-eye-on-land-next-door&source=gmail&ust=1571155468145000&usg=AFQjCNGXHDyF8C2UDs0JwQNC2oEGgtDQGQ" href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191013/celery-fields-lovers-keep-eye-on-land-next-door" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Celery Fields lovers keep an eye on the land next door</a>.</b></span></div>
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The point has to do with the evolution of something new - unplanned, unanticipated. When this happens, and when it's a good thing, is it not in the public interest for this new beneficence to be recognized, its trending potential protected, and its future prospects planned for?</div>
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Is the best way to do this to act as if nothing has happened, and it's still 1975? </div>
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It's not every day that a code-based bureaucracy has to grapple with a radically new natural phenomenon. But you know, that's where you might find something to be enthusiastic about -- a challenge to entrenched ways of seeing and doing, an unexpected grace of Nature that calls for an equally unexpected grace of human imagination and spirit.</div>
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It is profoundly disappointing that our elected officials have so far been unmoved by self-evident natural beauty and community commitment to the Celery Fields.</div>
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It's not clear from our reading of the CAP [<a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html" target="_blank">Critical Area Plan</a>] that you've taken a close enough look at the community that will be impacted by whatever goes on the Quads. How many of the questions below does your CAP actually explore?</div>
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Please request more time if necessary to do a full visioning plan for the entire Celery Fields Area. There is no rush - no one is at the door, seeking to build there. This would be a very good moment to explore the beauty and graces of the New.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">What do actual trends in the industrial park show in terms of vacancies, land prices, rental prices?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is no one seeking to purchase the MEC parcels in the 240 acres of the Fruitville Initiative for industry? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Where are the vectors that would demonstrate the obvious fact that Board actions have changed the area in an overwhelming way to residential and recreational?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">How many school children ride how many buses to school that stop on Palmer Blvd.? Why do they stop right in front of the Celery Fields Parking Lot and block all traffic in both directions? How can this be improved?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">How many people use the Celery Fields, at what times of day, what days of the week, for what purposes?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">How many </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">groups </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">use the Celery Fields for sports training, environmental studies, teaching, birdwatching, picnicking, stargazing, photography, dogwalking, kayaking, exercise, wedding photos and so many more purposes?</span></div>
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Utilities Potable water and wastewater systems will be served by Sarasota County Utilities. Reclaimed water is not currently available to these sites. Potable water is available through either an existing 16-inch DI potable water main along Palmer Boulevard or a 12-inch PVC potable water main along Apex Road. The water distribution system will need to be extended in a manner that minimizes dead ends by providing a looped system that reduces the need for the flushing of water lines. Wastewater service is available through an 8-inch gravity line located along Apex Road. The Fancy Farms Lift Station that serves the Quads parcels, near the corner of Apex Road and Tower Lane, has limited capacity available. Currently the lift station can accept up to 18 EDU’s, (3,600 gallons per day (GPD) of average daily flow) from the Quads parcels. This lift station currently accepts wastewater flows from the Fruitville Library, SWFWMD office, the Fruitville Park of Commerce, and the Texaco station at the corner of Fruitville Road and East Road (the Fruitville East developments).<br />
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During the planning for the Fruitville Initiative (SPA 3) development, Public Utilities identified the need for a new forcemain along Coburn/Apex Road to accept new flow from SPA 3. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Public Utilities intends to enter into an oversize agreement with a developer when the first increment of SPA 3 south of Fruitville Road is ready construct. </span>This is expected to occur within the next 3-5 years. At that time, and with the new oversized forcemain in service, flow from the Fruitville East developments will be redirected into the new forcemain in order to gain back additional capacity in the Fancy Farms Lift Station that could be made available to serve additional development on the Quads parcels.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"> "Public Utilities intends to enter into an oversize agreement with a developer when the first increment of SPA 3 south of Fruitville Road is ready construct."</span>The above sentence is too vague. Intent or not of Public Utilities, unless the county has a contract in writing with financial costs associated and share cost analysis with the undetermined "Developer" this leaves the public, who will be responsible for this co-paying of using county tax dollars way, way too vague. And has county history has shown, time and time again, the burden of financial costs falls squarely on Sarasota county and not the developers. We, the people are tired of picking up Developer's costs and corporation welfare. The county MUST provide accurate forecasting, not vague intent.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The Quads parcels have historically been under agricultural cultivation. The area was used for vegetable production between 1924 and 1995 that would have involved the use of agri- chemicals. In addition, soils with arsenic levels above the residential soil cleanup target level were stockpiled on the sites. Because of this history, it is recommended that some site assessment work be done to determine what, if any, action should be taken prior to development. Similar site assessment activities were recently completed on the new fire station site.<br /><br /> "... it is recommended that some site assessment work be done to determine what, if any, action should be taken prior to development. Similar site assessment activities were recently completed on the new fire station site."</span><br />
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"some" site assessment is too vague on land that Mr. Hines is suggestion affordable housing. Human beings should not be housed, poor or wealthy, on land that clearly has issues of such varied soil contamination.<br />
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<b>N.W. Quad: </b>There are no native habitats or grand trees, and a cluster of four cabbage palms is located at the south east corner of the site. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Evidence of listed wildlife species has not been previously documented, however, prior to development, a professional wildlife survey will be required.</span> A landscape buffer of live oaks planted 25-feet on center exists along the north property line on the adjacent property. A 0.4 opacity landscape buffer will be provided with development of the fire station site adjacent to this parcel.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"> " Evidence of listed wildlife species has not been previously documented, however, prior to development, a professional wildlife survey will be required."</span><br />
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In 2017 Matt Osterhoudt performed the county study on the parcels that the county tried to sell to TST Ventures & Restaurant Depot. Mr. Osterhoudt reported during that he had not witnessed any wildlife species. People in the community have demonstrated and can do so again, that if the survey were performed by a professional naturalist, bird, insect and wildlife can be easily documented with our very own human eyeballs and good pair of binoculars.This type of study takes patience and not just a couple hours.<br />
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As I am sure you are aware, Florida's Sunshine Laws are among the strongest in the nation, giving every citizen access to the information necessary for participating in the democratic process. These laws protect a citizen's right to know how government operates, making information such as public events, government meeting minutes, and court proceedings available. The Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller's office fully supports transparency and accountability.<br />
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I insist that Sarasota County perform its "wildlife study" with Sarasota Audubon and a few other community witnesses. Must species counts are done in group, not solo, not one human, groups. The hours of this study should be conducted in a wide range of hours, i.e. a full day of observation on the N.W. Quad, early a.m. hours when birds are busy. You know that phrase, "the early bird gets the worm," well it is true. Early a.m. to mid p.m. and for consideration late p.m. hours, because while Mr. Osterhoudt is sleeping, wildlife carries on during evening hours too.<br />
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To save time, the above should be applied to the SW & SE Quad parcels as well.<br />
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The county report is way too vague, if the county insists on selling these public lands, determination of the structures that may be developed must be presented to the public.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">• Establish Palmer Boulevard building setbacks and landscape buffers measured from the 170-foot roadway section. Building setbacks should be a minimum of 35-feet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> 35 feet building setbacks imply that density will be built up.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">• Establish building height limitations based on proximity to Palmer Boulevard.</span><br />
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35 feet building setbacks imply that development's only choice on these tiny parcels is density and the thrust will be to build up.<br />
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Why has staff not given examples now, in this report? This is too vague, there is enough data out there for county staff to provide accurate height limitations now. Staff needs to provide established building height limitatioads, ons TODAY.<br />
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Considering the Benderson Stickney Point/Tamiami Trail development, density, set backs and height has been changed a number of times due to county mistakes and Benderson pressure to build whatever a Benderson-type manages to shove through.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">• Provide regulations and/or guidelines on landscape materials and elements, including lighting, to be used along the Palmer Boulevard roadway frontage and within the Palmer Boulevard/Celery Fields view shed.</span><br />
The word “Guidelines” are too wiggly. The Celery Fields need to be protected from lighting due to the known dangers of lighting used at night. A recent article in the NY TImes,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/nyregion/911-tribute-birds.html">The 9/11 Tribute Lights Are Endangering 160,000 Birds a Year</a>, cites that light during the night causes birds to collide into buildings. Death from evening lights put up by humans confuses birds and is responsible for as many as 600 million bird deaths a year across the U.S. This information comes from Audubon.<br />
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There should be NO more additional lighting added for p.m. lighting near the Celery Fields or quad properties. Period.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">• Establish minimum open space and architectural design criteria for buildings constructed on Quads parcels to ensure a high level of design and quality development.</span><br />
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Again, staff is too vague, "Establish minimum” implies the county will be very hands off and grant a potential developer the directive of establishing criteria for the Quads. This is unacceptable. Anything that may be developed on these lands must involve the community. Essentially, if this open ended "establish minimum" sentence stands, a Developer gets to use Sarasota County staff and commission as a concierge service for almost whatever they try to develop to build on Quad parcels.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Mobility <br /><br />Traffic Generation For the purpose of understanding the traffic impacts resulting from the development of various uses of the Quads parcels, trip generation tables, located in Appendix B, were constructed using the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation. Separate tables are provided for each parcel based on the differing acreage. The number of units (square feet, residential units) for each use represents a maximum or reasonable build-out of each parcel. Plans were developed (Appendix C) using the S.W. Quad as a model to establish a basis for the number of units for various uses.</span><br />
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We insist, county staff, along with whatever consultant is hired, must include community witnesses.<br />
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The study must be performed during the hours of 7AM - 7PM, during dates that will ensure accurate traffic count numbers during high season, school season, and should be performed Monday - Friday along with a Saturday during high season. Measurements should include number of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, neighborhood walkers, traffic in and out of Audubon, etc.<br />
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From past mobility traffic generation reports, we, the public, have no way of really believing the staff reports. As what I have witnessed, along with knowing many people who live off of Palmer have said to me, in addition to businesses at the intersection of Palmer and Cattleman, the county traffic reports are negligent in their numbers and low ball the reality that further introduction of more vehicles to this area for industrial development does the community no favors.<br />
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Respectfully submitted for the county commission packet for the November 6th meeting.<br />
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Adrien Lucas<br />
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Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-46574211635619552492019-10-04T22:56:00.001-04:002019-10-05T13:14:12.561-04:00Comment #2 on Critical Area Plan for the Quad Parcels at the Celery FieldsOctober 4, 2019<br />
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Mr. Steve Kirk<br />
Sarasota County<br />
Planning and Development Services<br />
1660 Ringling Blvd.<br />
Sarasota, FL<br />
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Re: Critical Area Plan for the Palmer Blvd./Quads Area<br />
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Dear Mr. Kirk,<br />
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I appreciate your compiling the diverse attributes of my neighborhood and laying out some interpretations in the Critical Area Plan draft. This is indeed a grand undertaking, and I’m sure you’ve put in many hours!<br />
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I see: <i>Adopted in 1985, the CAP was privately initiated and required to meet the provisions of the Comprehensive Plan to map the designated industrial area. </i><br />
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I would be curious to know who initiated this CAP, and if these “players” are still around today. Even back then, you would think any plan would be publicly initiated.<br />
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The draft outlines the zoning districts listed below. I believe Figure 5 should have widened the territory to include a much larger view, and the acreages should be given for residential in the wider area.<br />
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The following zoning districts (Figure 5) and acreages exist within the CAP:<br />
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<li> PID (Planned Industrial Development) - 167.4</li>
<li> ILW (Industrial, Light Manufacturing and Warehousing) - 75</li>
<li> OUR (Open Use Rural) (Quad’s parcels) - 55.2</li>
<li> PED (Planned Economic Development) (SPA 3) - 29</li>
<li> GU (Government Use) (Ackerman Park, fire station) - 30.2</li>
<li> OUE-1 (Open Use Estate) (stormwater pond) - 15.7</li>
<li> PCD (Planned Commerce Development) - 12.3</li>
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Some of the recommended permitted uses should be prohibited, such as the following:<br />
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<li><i>Light Industrial (there is enough current capacity in the industrial parks)</i></li>
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<li><i>Research laboratory</i></li>
<li><i>Warehouse and freight movement</i></li>
<li><i>Wholesale trade</i></li>
<li><i>Vocational, trade or business school</i></li>
<li><i>College or university</i></li>
<li><i>Vehicle service</i></li>
<li><i>Sale of vehicle parts and accessories</i></li>
<li><i>Sale of lumber and building supplies</i></li>
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<b>Implementing Zoning Districts</b><br />
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The Comprehensive Plan identifies the implementing zoning districts for each future land use designation. The following are the implementing zoning districts identified for the MEC designation:<br />
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<li> ILW (Industrial Light Manufacturing & Warehousing)</li>
<li> IR (Industrial Research)</li>
<li> PCD (Planned Commerce District) (Planned District)</li>
<li> PED (Planned Economic Development) (Planned District)</li>
<li> GU (Government Use)</li>
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Also, I disagree with this recommendation:<br />
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<b>N.W. and S.W. Quads</b><br />
<b>Industrial / Office - Suitable</b><br />
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<li><i>Consistent with Comprehensive Plan and surrounding uses.</i></li>
<li><i> Low traffic generator</i></li>
<li><i> Retains MEC land in employment use.</i></li>
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<b>An additional zoning district should be added to the UDC: Parks and Recreation. I think that this should be recommended rather than the blanket MEC.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Just as the City of Sarasota is looking at amending zoning to create this set-apart district, Sarasota County should have such a zoning district.<br />
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<b>TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION</b><br />
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I do not see any solicitation of opinions from public/private/charter schools regarding student transportation needs. Would you please reach out to some entities for input?<br />
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<b>Center Road and Lorraine Road</b><br />
<b><br /></b><i>The completion of the gap in Center Road between Fruitville Road and Palmer Boulevard should be considered to generally improve connectivity in the area of the CAP and complete a mobility loop through the CAP and around the Celery Fields. Alternatively, the construction of a pedestrian/bike path in the area of this gap could be considered.</i><br />
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The Critical Area Plan for this area necessarily involves a discussion of the<br />
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extension of Lorraine Road from Palmer Boulevard to Fruitville. Also, traffic on Palmer from Lorraine to Debrecen will soon be “F” LOS, from Debrecen to Fruitville “F”, and from Debrecen to Lorraine on Fruitville “F” (per traffic engineer Kwamena Sankah). Why does this matter? Because traffic that can’t get to Fruitville will even more clog the Apex area.<br />
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Traffic studies – current and anticipatory – are notoriously flawed. It’s impossible to believe studies will approach reality. They haven’t in the past, and that will be the future story.<br />
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<i>Mitigating Improvements Section 3, Mobility, of this study indicated that the improvements associated with the Cattlemen Road Construction Phase II project and the construction of a roundabout or signalization of the Apex Road and Palmer Boulevard intersection will improve the roadway level of service (LOS) in the area. However, <b>the LOS for that section of Palmer Boulevard west of Apex Road will likely continue to be below the adopted LOS. </b>Also, identified as a mitigating improvement is the expansion to 4 lanes of Palmer Boulevard from Porter Road to Apex Road. However, <b>that expansion would conflict with the objective of preserving the existing character of Palmer Boulevard with its open corridor and roadway section also identified in this study.</b> With the development of any of the Quads parcels, Transportation Planning will identify certain improvements such as turn lanes that will be required to accommodate the traffic generated by a proposed use.</i></blockquote>
<b>There really is no use that won’t increase traffic and ruin the larger neighborhood character. Keep in mind that identified capital project needs require funding of $1.2 billion. Where will money come from for creative roadway improvements that will serve the community in a respectful way?</b><br />
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Public/Civic – Suitable - <b>Agree – but what?</b><br />
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<li><strike>Allowed as part of mixed use in PCD and PED. Limited to 50% of PCD. Traditional town center design requirements must be met in PED. N.W. Quad may be too small for PED design requirements</strike></li>
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<li>No limitations in GU district.</li>
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The public has clearly spoken about public uses, so there is no lack of input there. Any use should be put to the public test, with open communication. Any government uses (Natural History Museum?) should be also put to the public test.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Glenna Blomquist<br />
<br />Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-36243110933667279142019-10-04T12:40:00.000-04:002019-10-05T13:14:36.835-04:00Comment #1 on the Critical Area Plan for the Quads<b>Comment #1 on the Critical Area Plan for the Quads at the Celery Fields</b><br />
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To: Steve Kirk (skirk@scgov.net), Matt Osterhoudt (mosterho@scgov.net) Jane Grogg (jgrogg@scgov.net)<br />
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October 4, 2019<br />
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Having had the opportunity to review a draft of the Planning Department's <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3wQrRxjFE-zZVY1c29MclBEU0ZBcmV1SXhxX1gxb2RIcHp3/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Critical Area Plan</a> (CAP) that concerns our public lands at the Celery Fields, we wish to offer some comments in hopes of clarifying community concerns.<br />
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Before going into detail, we wish to affirm that public lands in Sarasota County should only be considered according to community-oriented principles. A plan for public lands should:<br />
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<li>Put people first.</li>
<li>Advance Sarasota’s long-held values of good stewardship and intelligent planning.</li>
<li>Situate the specific discussion within the larger context of changes and area trends.</li>
<li>Respect Sarasota’s distinguished tradition of protecting and preserving public lands.</li>
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The Draft CAP offers a detailed, balanced look into the area the Board tasked you to study. An example comes on page 15 (of draft received on Aug. 28th). The Level of Service (LOS) on Palmer Blvd. between Porter and Apex is found to be unacceptable, and the possibility of widening Palmer Blvd. from Porter to Apex to four lanes is considered. The report goes on:<br />
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<i>“the negative impact on the character of the Palmer Boulevard corridor from such a change must be considered.”</i><br />
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This observation is highly significant; it’s a sign of the report's judicious approach to the task it was given. But -- and this is the crux of the matter -- the larger reality of that acknowledged "negative impact" is never fully given its due.<br />
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The ultimate welfare and fate of a substantial evolving area of beauty, recreation, community health and economic opportunity should be the primary and central concern of this plan, and so far, this most certainly is not the case.<br />
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<b>Inadequate Scoping</b><br />
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In great measure this has to do with the design of the task, rather than with its execution. While the report seems to fulfill its objective, the design of that objective - its scoping - ignores all the most important issues that relate to the future of the Celery Fields area. At one time, the community had a hand in shaping the actual scope of a CAP - as with the Fruitville Initiative. Why not here?<br />
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What’s missing is an in-depth inquiry into the large meaningful trends transforming the entire surrounding area. In recent years, the <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2018/07/an-interim-update.html" target="_blank">Board has approved thousands of residences</a> within walking distance. Children live and go to schools on buses that come along Palmer. The Celery Fields itself has become a valued amenity for residents and many visitors. The industrial park, on the other hand, often shows many vacancy signs.<br />
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Without taking into account the predominant features of the area as a whole, this plan misses what really matters: the public good. Imagine for a moment that someone applied to the Federal Government to frack a plot of land, and simply says, "this land is not close to any homes, let us frack." Now suppose the land sits atop Lincoln’s head on Mt. Rushmore -- should that fact be ignored?<br />
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What you were tasked to do is not ask, for example, how people living within walking distance of the Celery Fields will be affected by bringing industrial development forward to Palmer Blvd.<br />
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Compare the existing configuration with what is proposed: Ackerman Park serves to screen the industrial areas to its west from drivers on Apex Road. Putting industry on the Quads does precisely the opposite: It takes away the buffer (our public lands) and replaces them with construction on Palmer Boulevard. The result will be a continuous built barrier between the Celery Fields and the residential and commercial areas accessible via the Palmer Underpass. Industry would add more large truck traffic to Palmer, Porter, and Apex, which are now about to be impacted by trucks from James Gabbert’s Waste Transfer Facility.<br />
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<b>Survey the entire community</b><br />
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There’s a great deal of knowledge about the area that this CAP should see as its duty to address -- real-life factors for thousands of people who now live there:<br />
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<li>What do actual trends in the industrial park show in terms of vacancies, land prices, rental prices?</li>
<li>Why is no one seeking to purchase the MEC parcels in the 240 acres of the Fruitville Initiative for industry? </li>
<li>Where are the vectors that would demonstrate the obvious fact that Board actions have changed the area in an overwhelming way to residential and recreational?</li>
<li>Traffic analysis should include the peak times, patterns and needs of the immediate community.</li>
<li>How many school children ride how many buses to school that stop on Palmer Blvd.? Why do they stop right in front of the Celery Fields Parking Lot and block all traffic in both directions? How can this be improved?</li>
<li>How many people use the Celery Fields, at what times of day, what days of the week, for what purposes?</li>
<li>How many groups use the Celery Fields for sports training, environmental studies, teaching, birdwatching, picnicking, stargazing, photography, dogwalking, kayaking, exercise, wedding photos and so many more purposes?</li>
<li>With evermore recreational users and visitors - human and avian - from elsewhere, what plans are underway to to meet anticipated needs for parking and complementary activities such as a place to sit and enjoy a meal?</li>
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Without fully studying the area, how can you possibly plan in a way that offers reliable estimates of probable impacts?<br />
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What is clear is that the Planning Dept. was asked to look at implementing the 1975 land use designation for the Quads. Which means the task and scoping of this 2019 Critical Area Plan <b>directs you to look away from,</b> rather than inquire into, the greater and more fundamental questions of communal good in this changing landscape. <b>Your findings flow ineluctably from the design of your task.</b><br />
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<b>Policy and stewardship</b><br />
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In addition to the compromised frame, there is need for serious consideration of basic matters of stewardship, tradition, and policy. Ask anyone who has lived in Sarasota for a long time: it is not a “given” that public lands should be sold. In fact, it’s been a long-held principle in this county that public lands are public forever -- not to be sold for private development, except in rare explicable circumstances.<br />
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Our communities have shared our hopes and vision for this area with you over several years. We reiterate our expectation that you adopt community-based principles:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Put people first.</li>
<li>Advance Sarasota’s long-held values of good stewardship and intelligent planning.</li>
<li>Situate the specific discussion within the larger context of changes and area trends.</li>
<li>Respect Sarasota’s distinguished tradition of protecting and preserving public lands.</li>
</ul>
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In addition, include in your plan strong provisions in the event the Board votes to sell or develop:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Detail specific constraints with regard to footprint, traffic, noise, architecture, lighting, noise, landscaping, business model, compatibility for any rezoning, special exception, etc.</li>
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<li>Require a rigorous examination of any applicant’s business practice. Restaurant Depot Tampa location is served by huge trucks, and attracts a large public trade in cheap alcohol and food -- which escaped notice when the firm applied to build on parcel #3.</li>
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<b>Opportunity lost</b><br />
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Finally, why do this at all? No applicant has asked for this. The first thing this plan should state is <b>the Board’s explanation as to why it prefers private profiteering to the public good.</b><br />
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Forward-looking planning for recreation and habitat preservation will not only serve the ever-expanding population of Sarasota County; it will sustain and improve air and water quality, and enhance current property values. In addition to all else, the county will see a significantly larger monetary return by supporting public land use by and for our citizens, over a far longer period of time.<br />
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In brief: we ask that you do justice to nature, to our communities, and to the future of Sarasota: incorporate the vision, values, vitality and promise of the larger Celery Fields area in this report to the Board.<br />
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<br />Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-58338665339071855902019-09-12T11:51:00.000-04:002019-09-13T12:39:42.968-04:00A Tale of Two Comp Plan Amendments: "Have a Vision"<i><<Note: See update from Rod Krebs in the "Postscript" below.>></i><br />
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Hearty congratulations to the Miakka Community, which on Sept. 11 won the first round in its effort to have the County process a Comprehensive Plan <a href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/09/911-protect-rural-heritage-or-promote.html" target="_blank">Amendment (CPA) that aims to reduce density and intensity </a>in East Sarasota County. The effort, led by Becky Ayech, is the first such amendment ever sought by citizens of Sarasota -- usually they are brought by developers.<br />
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The Miakka citizen effort speaks to the interests of all who love East Sarasota and seek to preserve its "rural heritage" lifestyle.<br />
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Some 26 speakers supported the Miakka group. Rod Krebs, a landowner and lead developer seeking to intensify the area, spoke against the initiative.<br />
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One highlight of the meeting was Former Sarasota Commissioner Paul Mercier's brief, direct and crystal clear message to the Board: Understand where the community itself wants to go -- and -- "have a vision."<br />
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Communities concerned about our elected officials selling public lands near the Celery Fields for industrial, commercial, or affordable housing uses have been saying the same thing for a few years now. Mercier just said it better.<br />
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The Board's decision for Miakka wasn't a sure thing. Two commissioners, Al Maio and Charles Hines, both of whom are term-limited and won't face re-election, voted against it. Mike Moran, Nancy Detert, and Christian Ziegler hedged their support with various reservations, hesitations, and ambivalences, noting that reducing density near Verna and Fruitville roads could be interpreted to be a "land grab" - infringing on the rights of owners such as Krebs.</div>
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The next step normally would be for the Planning Department to do a study of the proposed amendment, and bring it to the county in about nine months. However, on Thursday, Sept. 19, the Planning Commission will hear about another CPA -- from Krebs, who is seeking to increase the density near Verna and Fruitville -- the very area Miakka wishes to de-intensify.</div>
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If the Planning Commission recommends approval of Krebs' initiative (in June they <a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/06/planning-commission-opposes-attempt-to.html" target="_blank">overwhelmingly recommended denial of Miakka's petition)</a>, it will come before the Board in a few months. If the Board approves Krebs's amendment, it could nullify Miakka's CPA before it gets off the ground.</div>
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Such are the complications of amendments coming from both ends of the development field -- existing homeowners seeking to protect their traditional lifestyle, and developers seeking to create new communities that will intensify roads and make new demands on resources.</div>
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Where does whose property rights begin and end? This is the large question underlying this conflict between these Comprehensive Plan Amendments: the intensification sought by Krebs <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByYEs7y0lT7MdVBZaDFhUTNMTjU3OGpuVTYybVRQczFBdVFJ" target="_blank">(2018-c)</a> and the opposite goal of the Miakka Community (<a href="https://berncreek.net/files/CPA2019CMiakkaCommunityClu.pdf" target="_blank">2019-c)</a>. </div>
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These opposing proposals reveal a fundamental conflict underpinning Sarasota County's bi-polar assumptions about land use and ownership, human rights, environmental awareness, business interests, and citizen participation in local government. In brief, our vision of how to grow in a manner that does justice to all parties.</div>
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Such questions deserve a full, wide-open public discussion, rather than being reduced to fears about whether the County could be sued if they do not let a developer change what he bought to maximize his return. Developers do not usually live on land they develop -- they work it, earn their profits, and move on.</div>
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What the Board really needs to address is precisely what Paul Mercier said: Where is the community going, and what is the Board's Vision. </div>
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In recent years, communities concerned about land uses and impacts upon the shared treasure we call the Celery Fields have offered the County our sense of where we want to go with our public lands. Time and again we've met with a silence louder than words -- an absence of vision, of direction, perhaps even of care. It speaks of a Board that obeys orders from someone other than the people they are supposed to represent. </div>
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For the people of Miakka to present the objective of preserving Rural Heritage - the vision of their community - for the Board to consider in all its ramifications is a wonderful first step. </div>
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We'll watch what the Planning Commission does on Sept. 19, as we prepare for the Board's consideration of industry at the Celery Fields in early November.</div>
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Two days after the 9.11 hearing, developer Rod Krebs sent an email to selected citizens indicating that he has communicated to the County his intention to postpone his Comp Plan Amendment. Stating that he is open to "creative solution to satisfy such disparate needs . . . as traffic, utilities, and water quality in the area," Krebs wrote that he is willing to work to resolve these issues, adding:<br />
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Above is a photo taken yesterday (9.8.19) of the wall which James Gabbert is building to "hide" his waste transfer facility (WTF) at Porter and Palmer. It will hide his waste piles from passing motorists - millions of them on the highway annually - about as well as it will keep traffic flowing while his trucks enter and leave at Palmer Blvd. opposite Bell Rd.</div>
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Sarasota County does not plan; it prefers to offer concierge services to its friends.</div>
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On Wednesday, citizens of Miakka in East County will attempt to get the Board to <a href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/09/911-protect-rural-heritage-or-promote.html" target="_blank">allow their proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment to proceed</a>. I.e., they are not asking the Board to approve changes, but merely to allow the Planning Dept. to consider a rural heritage vision of East County.</div>
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The "Planning Commission" -- an appointed board stuffed with realtors, insurance people and development interests -- already said "NO" to the Miakka Community of East Sarasota. They expressed dismay that citizens would dare propose a Comp Plan amendment to protect their way of life from leapfrog intensification - which <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/09/911-protect-rural-heritage-or-promote.html&source=gmail&ust=1568131715717000&usg=AFQjCNE6dR8hIt0KPQFFIT78xzGT5xAJqw" href="http://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2019/09/911-protect-rural-heritage-or-promote.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">developers are now proposing.</a></div>
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Keep an eye on the Board action on Wednesday afternoon, when Becky Ayech and the Miakka community ask our elected officials to allow the planning department to consider an actual plan.</div>
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Because in November, the Board will once again take up our public lands at the Quads. And they will discuss a plan - not a plan made by citizens, but <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html&source=gmail&ust=1568131715717000&usg=AFQjCNE-CDZtnqECLHqow4unUN3-7t5huA" href="http://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/07/recap-before-pending-celery-fields.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">directed by the Board</a>.</div>
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The time to plan for the Quads was August 2017, when the people told the Board to not even consider industry on public land on Palmer Blvd. Early evidence is that they are still considering industry at the Quads, for the parcels west of Apex Rd.</div>
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They can say, "well, Parcel #2 (SW corner) is already bordered by Mr. Gabbert's WTF" - yes, now it is - because they didn't ever have a plan, a vision for the area, which fundamentally changed thanks to the Celery Fields, to Audubon, to the Fruitville Initiative, and to new residents who do not care to live next to industry.</div>
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Let's see what happens on 9.11, 1:30 pm, when Rural Heritage values come before the Board.</div>
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Fresh Start Sarasotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398661797622373423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121693990580861429.post-55137599000728001752019-07-20T12:42:00.001-04:002019-07-21T13:29:48.787-04:00Recap before pending Celery Fields decisionsThe Celery Fields offers residents the freedom of walking, exercising, birding, kayaking, fishing - as well as a touch of fresh air, cool breezes at the summit, fantastic sunsets and tranquility.<br />
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While things might be quiet there now, they're not dull. At the moment, our public lands adjacent to the Celery Fields are in a suspended state. We await a critical area plan report that is anticipated to be released in time for a <b>Nov. 6 Board discussion</b>. What the Board decides then is likely to lead to rezonings, area plan amendments, and one or more key public hearings.<br />
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Below is a recap of recent activity regarding future possible decisions on the public Quad parcels near the nature and birding sanctuary.<br />
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After the Gabbert Waste Facility hearing of <a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2017/08/snl-gabbert-proposal-voted-down.html" target="_blank">August 23, 2017</a>, the Board never swayed from its plan to sell our public land to industrial or other uses. More than 60 people spoke to them at that hearing about all the reasons the public Quad parcels should serve uses that benefit the people. The Board did nothing.<br />
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In 2018, after 10 months of input from residents who initiated a formal process to bring <a href="https://www.scgov.net/home/showdocument?id=40564" target="_blank">ideas from the community </a>for our public lands, the Board did nothing.<br />
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Meanwhile James Gabbert began work on his Waste Transfer Station (or, the WTF) on six acres of land he bought adjacent to Quad Parcel #2. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIZp6rMZtGto1sC1XC4YLm6h5IKcevFn/view" target="_blank">Work is ongoing</a> - this is a heavy industrial use situated on thin, failing roads; it will be visible to drivers along the Interstate. Commissioners Al Maio and Charles Hines voted to approve this plan of Gabbert's back in 2014. For more background, <a href="https://sarasotavision2050.blogspot.com/2017/01/tale-of-timeline-how-to-plan-trainwreck.html" target="_blank">see this detailed timeline</a>.<br />
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After one commissioner said no further uses - industrial or otherwise - ought to be considered on the Quad parcels unless something is done about the roads, the Board in January ordered the Planning Department to undertake a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIZp6rMZtGto1sC1XC4YLm6h5IKcevFn/view" target="_blank">Critical Area Plan,</a> or CAP of the Quad parcels and the surrounding area.<br />
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That process has continued since then. Lead planner Steve Kirk held a neighborhood workshop on May 14. The Church of Hope venue <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGQinNT-zhO0Mnu3pb9YxSEm00-6_KzF" target="_blank">overflowed with citizens offering input</a>. No one spoke in favor of selling our public lands for commercial or industrial uses.<br />
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In advance of the workshop, several <a href="https://www.scgov.net/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10155/5467" target="_blank">new proposals or planning concepts were submitted to the Planning Department, which reposted them on this page.</a><br />
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After the May 14 workshop, a few new ideas arose as well:<br />
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<li>Sarasota Audubon proposed an <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/05/sarasota-audubon-nurturing-uses-for-our.html" target="_blank">Urban Forest on Parcel #1,</a> the SE Quad next to the Celery Fields wetlands. Such a forest would offer diversified habitat for birds, new nesting areas, as well as walkable parkland for residents.</li>
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<li>The Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast called for identifying a larger Rural Heritage Conservation Area that would offer a variety of uses and serve as a Central Park for eastern Sarasota, which is about to explode with new development. The area would include the Quad Parcels, the Celery Fields, and more properties totaling 1,300 acres.</li>
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<li>In June, Commissioner Hines threw out an idea to put affordable housing on Parcel #2, and said he'd like to see some action toward that end before the Board took its summer break beginning July 22. </li>
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<li>Read <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/01/june-update-on-public-lands-at-celery.html" target="_blank">more about both of these ideas here.</a></li>
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<li>In June, environmental advocate Jono Miller wrote to the Board advising against affordable housing on the Quad parcels. Miller proposed <a href="https://freshstartsarasota.blogspot.com/2019/06/jono-miller-history-and-natural-history.html" target="_blank">another possible use </a>for the Quad parcels, a history and natural history center. </li>
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<li>A similar suggestion for a combined museum and nature center forms part of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/celeryfieldscommunityestate/" target="_blank">Celery Fields Community Estate</a> group's proposal, which also includes a wealth of <a href="http://srqlandtrust.org/community-estate/" target="_blank">creative ideas for all four parcels</a>.</li>
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A couple of days ago, lead CAP planner Steve Kirk offered a few updates by phone. Key points are summarized below (italicized sections are not from Kirk but from the editors):<br />
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<li>The May 14 workshop was the sole public workshop to be held in this process. The gist of the public input was clear - "pretty black and white," as he put it.</li>
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<li>Kirk aims to present results of the CAP study to the Board -- the tentative date is Nov. 6, 2019.</li>
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<li>Planning will transmit the critical area plan results - including community input - to the Board a week before the public discussion on Nov. 6 (or whenever it's held). No information about the findings of the area planning process will be available to the public before it is transmitted to the Board, Kirk noted. The Board authorized the report, and its contents will not be shared with the public ahead of when it's sent to the Board.</li>
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<li>When the Commissioners discuss the CAP, that discussion is not a public hearing. Yet, at that point, the Commissioners can do as they wish - they asked for the study, but are not bound by it, so they can ignore it and proceed to authorize a rezoning for whatever purposes they wish.</li>
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<li>Whatever the Commissioners decide, they will probably order a rezoning of the Quad parcels, and a CAP amendment to enable changes to the plan. They could even order a Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Kirk added. Each of these processes calls for a public hearing. For example, if the Board votes to rezone one or more parcels for industrial use, even if no industrial developer is known to be asking for it, that rezoning process can go forward.</li>
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<i>EDITOR's NOTE: This could lead to a peculiar step in planning: At an industrial rezoning hearing, for example, the public will be given the opportunity to speak, but there might be no information as to what sort of industrial use could eventually go on these lands near the Celery Fields. Should the Board decide to authorize industrial rezoning, <b>respect</b> for the area and for the community <b>demands that any such directive be very specific, and include strong proactive and protective constraints</b>: No heavy industry, no trucks, no environmental pollution, no eyesores, etc. Anything less would open the doors to yet another Gabbert waste facility, giant slovenly warehouse, or worse.</i></div>
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The Board has not yet given any indication to Planning about affordable housing. They could address the issue upon their return. A"Think Tank" workshop for the Board is scheduled for Aug. 21.<br />
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While the Commissioners could direct planning to take steps to put affordable housing on the Quad parcels, doing so before the CAP process is complete would be out of sequence.<br />
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<i>If the Board has any respect for sound planning or for the community, it will allow the planning department to complete a rigorous critical planning process, then use the results as the basis for considering the best options for our public lands at the Celery Fields.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtesy of Chuck Behrmann</td></tr>
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