FRUITVILLE 210
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
Our neighborhoods have common issues. We want to come together
as a community & address with our Sarasota County Government:
- Traffic - speeding, traffic calming options, accidents
- Secure our Neighborhood - please report problems!
- Sidewalks: incomplete (sidewalks to nowhere)
- Infrastructure: Failed Roads & Failed intersections traffic counts are over FDOT limits for safety
- Honore Avenue to Bee Ridge Road
F210 ISSUES
www.Fruitville210.org
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Let's cool the overheated growth in South County - read Pelican Press
The Referendum PASSED - and here is why it did . . .
Sarasota County Charter smart growth amendment
( requiring county approval on development of
newly annexed lands in North Port & Venice)
WINS by a landslide: 71% in favor, 29% opposed.
WATER RESTRICTIONS from Jan. 16 – July 31, 2007
Sarasota County residents must follow Swiftmud irrigation hours:
Properties under two acres in size may water only:
before 8am or after 6pm
Properties two acres or larger may water only:
before 10am or after 4pm
For information on these restrictions, contact the Sarasota County
Call Center at 941-861-5000 and ask for Utilities customer service.
SWIFT MUD - Southwest Florida Water Management
PEACE RIVER water supply - dry months: Sun-Herald.com
Drought Spreads Across Florida - Tampa Tribune
Region's thirst stresses water supply . . .
I wonder if our county officials read the papers, watch TV or even look at the material prepared by their staffs. For years we have been warned that our water supply is stressed because of too many people. In Sarasota County, we have had numerous conferences about water and the lack of water. By edict I can water my lawn only one day a week.
Why then are developers allowed to constantly build home after home?
Within four miles of me in Englewood are six new developments. Six areas denuded, all trees gone, bare ground waiting for a house, condo or an apartment building. Ten miles away is North Port with cracked roads, septic systems and no water in some homes.
People use water in sewage, to drink, to water lawns, and to wash clothes, themselves and their dogs. Men who don't golf wash their cars! Every day I see them in swimming shorts, hosing and scrubbing, soapy water streaming down their knees into the gutters.
Why do we elect officials who want Dumb Growth? Haven't they heard of Smart Growth?
Do all of our elected officials have vested interests?
We, the people, have to object. Water is life, and potable water is running out. Growth has to be regulated wisely with a thought to the future.
Rosemary Hagen - Englewood - April 01. 2007
Experts: Summer rains won't cure shortage.
By TONI WHITT toni.whitt@heraldtribune.com
Out at the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority, 17 feet of sandy reservoir banks rise above the small pool of drinking water meant to supply a four-county region.
SWIFT MUD - Southwest Florida Water Management
Learn more about our Water situation at:
STOP & READ these signs when you see them by your business, or the Doctor's office, restaurant, school or anywhere in Sarasota.
These signs are SCGOV Notice
of ZONING changes that will effect
our city and county quality of life.
Contact your Co. Commissioner with your opinion on the "Zoning Change" being proposed.
What can be done? To better manage growth, the nonprofit organization wants state law- makers to: Expand the natural lands-acquisition program, Florida Forever.
Impose restrictions on the conversion of rural land to urban zoning to require the significant preservation of natural habitat, open space and agriculture.
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Population projections
2005 -- 2060
Florida: 18 million -- 36 million
Sarasota County:
364,954 -- 704,149
Manatee County:
302,002 -- 643,808
Charlotte County:
160,454 -- 335,713
DeSoto County: 34,720--69,717
Hardee County: 28,164--43,922
SOURCE: 1000 Friends of Florida
Stadium could be a local 'stimulus' - I am encouraged by Mayor Lou Ann Palmer's efforts to maintain the Cincinnati Reds in Sarasota County. I support this effort, not because I am originally from Cincinnati but because of its economic impact. The Reds bring revenue to hotels, motels, restaurants, rental car companies and other tourist-related businesses. This creates and maintains jobs and services for local residents and increases tax revenues. All this adds to tourism, an important part of our economic structure.
When tourism is down, we need to expand attractions. Eliminating the Cincinnati Reds or any other program or event that creates economic impact adds to the economic problem with reduced tax revenues and increased unemployment.
The Jan. 20 article "County covets Reds stadium tax dollars" leads me to believe that some county commissioners are not interested in maintaining the area's economy, but in shrinking it by not investing in tourism development.
Recently we have heard a lot about stimulus packages. The residents, city, county, airport and state would benefit from our own economic stimulus by putting construction workers back to work renovating Ed Smith Stadium. A $41 million renovation would be a jump-start in maintaining and growing jobs. This would provide a long-range economic benefit by maintaining the Cincinnati Reds and Sarasota Reds in the area.
I urge our government officials, whether city, county or state, to work together on economic expansion. It serves all of our interests, including
those who have never been to a professional baseball game.
Harry M. Addison - Englewood Read Opinionin in 2-9-08 Herald-Tribune HERE
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