FRUITVILLE 210
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
Land Development at Fruitville Exit 210
www.Fruitville210.org
What can be done? To better manage growth, the nonprofit organization wants state lawmakers 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:
2005 Existing Developed Lands in Florida
2060 Projected Developed Lands in Florida
2005 compared to 2060
Conservation Lands
Permanently Proteced
Read & scroll down the page for more & more info on Sarasota!
Sarasota City =
1996: 62 buildings, average cost: $150,200
1997: 63 buildings, average cost: $156,400
1998: 70 buildings, average cost: $150,200
1999: 74 buildings, average cost: $151,700
2000: 69 buildings, average cost: $151,300
2001: 72 buildings, average cost: $318,800
2002: 124 buildings, average cost: $272,800
2003: 78 buildings, average cost: $298,800
2004: 123 buildings, average cost: $275,200
2005: 122 buildings, average cost: $359,400
Sarasota County =
2000: 3041 buildings, average cost: $143,600
2001: 3799 buildings, average cost: $169,000
2002: 3869 buildings, average cost: $175,700
2003: 4630 buildings, average cost: $170,500
2004: 6321 buildings, average cost: $160,300
2005: 6886 buildings, average cost: $163,700
Voters target growth By PATRICK WHITTLE and JOHN DAVIS
Sarasota County leaders get new power over development
SARASOTA COUNTY -- Future population growth here may be located around North Port and Venice, but . . .
Tuesday's passage came amid questions from Venice leaders about whether a county advertising campaign was slanted too heavily in favor of the referendum item.
Venice Mayor Fred Hammett asked the city's attorney to look into whether the county's mailings, television commercials and Web site could be considered an improper use of taxpayer money.
For now, slow growth advocates such as Glenn Compton, director of environmental group ManaSota-88, are heralding the amendment a victory for opponents of suburban sprawl. "It's a significant event in terms of showing people are really concerned with the way our community is growing. And more proper planning has to be done for the future," Compton said.
Julia Guth, who has lived in North Port for three years, and her husband, Reinhard, said the couple was not fully up to speed on the complicated issue.
Reinhard Guth said North Port needs more people if it wants to keep up with all of the house-building of the past few years.
"We have a lot of empty houses," Guth said. "So let's fill those up first," before putting the brakes on growth.
Read that last line again . . . what is he saying?
If we can't fill empty houses now, why are we building more & more?
"Build it & they will come" was in a movie - that's FICTION you know?
Developed Land
This page was last updated: April 3, 2009
Banks, Banks, BANKS everywhere you look!
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to count them?
There are 9 of
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to Honroe Ave.
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Sen. Mike Bennett, the bill's sponsor, said the 2005 law was adding to the state's sprawl by forcing developers into rural areas where existing roads were less traveled and new roads were cheaper to build.
"We actually encouraged sprawl," Bennett told the Senate. "For that, I apologize."
The Bradenton Republican, though, made no concessions to critics who predicted his new bill will also add to Florida's sprawl.
Road law is modified to ease sprawl
From staff and wire reports Published: Friday, April 3, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 11:45 p.m.
TALLAHASSE - Reversing a strict 2005 law that required cities and counties to have adequate roads in place before approving new development, the Senate voted on Thursday to ease those transportation restrictions in urban areas.
The bill exempts heavily developed regions -- known as urban service areas – from meeting the transportation concurrency standard if they have densities of at least 1,000 people per square mile, but that includes sparsely populated parts of those areas, notably in Miami-Dade County.
The bill also eliminates additional state permitting requirements for large projects, known as developments of regional impact, and streamlines other permitting in the urban service areas.
The intent is to channel growth into cities including undeveloped sections known as in-fill.
But critics said it could have the opposite effect.
"You will be eliminating a lot of the controls on sprawl," said Sen. Dan Gelber, D-MiamiBeach. "So rather than actually promoting in-fill and promoting smart growth, which I think is the goal of the bill, you'll actually be doing exactly the opposite in an area like Dade County."
The Senate passed the bill 32-8 READ Article HERE
