On Tuesday, the Sarasota County Commission will vote on a rezone for another big chunk of the Lakewood Ranch Southeast project.
Monday (02/24)
City of Sarasota community workshop (agenda)
Highlights: Presentation of a landowner’s petition for higher density and height on the North Tamiami Trail. This is supposedly for an apartment complex, but there is no site plan.
5:30 PM
Selby Library, 1331 First St., 2nd floor conference room, Sarasota
Van Wezel Purple Ribbon Committee (agenda)
Highlights: Public comment; another engineering report.
5:30 PM
City Hall chambers, 1565 First Street, Sarasota
North Port City Commission special meeting (agenda)
Highlights: Presentation by Sarasota Schools about planning for growth in North Port; discussion of referendum questions on borrowing after disasters, for new police headquarters, solid waster transfer station, and water treatment plant.
6:00PM
Morgan Family Community Center, 4970 City Hall Blvd. North Port
Tuesday (02/25)
Sarasota County Commission regular meeting (agenda)
Highlights: Annual reports of the Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Committee, and of the Tourism Development Council and Visit Sarasota; additional funding for county jail expansion; $53 million in loans for two of the Housing Authority’s public housing projects; additional funding for Sheriff’s Department; state funding for Sarasota Fairgrounds; changing location and developer of a 165-unit affordable-housing project in North Port; action plan on how to allocate $210 million of HUD post disaster funding; approving a rezone for another big chunk of the Lakewood Ranch Southeast project.
9:00 AM
Sarasota County Administration Building, chambers, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota
City of Venice Council regular meeting (agenda)
Highlights: Presentation 2024 financial report and audit; multi-modal transportation plan update; presentation of the Floodplain Management Plan and mitigation projects.
9:00 AM
City Hall, Community Hall Room 165, 401 West Venice Avenue, Venice
Sarasota Hospital Board closed session (no agenda)
Highlights: Meeting closed to public; no agenda available.
9:00 AM
Old Board Room/Auditorium, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, 1st Floor, 1700 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Manatee County School Board regular meeting (agenda)
Highlights: School district’s 2025 credit rating; changes to residential attendance zones.
5:30 PM
Walter E. Miller School Support Center, 215 Manatee Avenue West, Bradenton
Wednesday (02/26)
City of Bradenton Council regular meeting (agenda)
Highlights: Granting a property owner a special use permit to operate a medical clinic in downtown; proposal by a custom print business to use the City Centre Garage retail space.
10:30 AM
City Hall council chambers, 101 Old Main St., Bradenton
City of Sarasota community workshop (agenda)
Highlights: Rezone of 9 acres at 2046 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way to “production – intensive commercial”. The city has agreed to sell the brownfield site to a Miami developer and his local partners.
5:30 PM
Robert Taylor Community Center, 1845 John Rivers St., Sarasota
Thursday (02/27)
None
Friday (02/28)
None
Monday (03/03)
City of Sarasota Commission regular meeting (agenda)
Highlights: Sarasota Housing Authority’s project portfolio; historical landmark designation for the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center; allowing developers additional public art options; selling three city-owned properties on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way for $201,000 to the African American Cultural Coalition;
9:00 AM
City Hall chambers, 1565 First Street, Sarasota