The developers in Sarasota have had their say; now it’s our turn. On May 8, the Sarasota County Commission will consider changing the county’s long-range land use plans called Sarasota 2050. At TWIS, we believe that long-range planning is a special kind of public process, and we spent a lazy afternoon pondering the best ways this could possibly go.

City mulls relocation of G. WIZ →  The city is preparing to sell six of its 10 most prized vacant lots, which include a vacant lot on the Sarasota bayfront. No real-estate parcel is more valuable to the city than a vacant sliver of property along the bayfront that sits between the Hyatt Regency, Sarasota and the G.WIZ Science Museum along Boulevard of the Arts. But commissioners decided to hold off on selling the parcel to interested buyers until its staff assesses if G.WIZ officials would be willing to restructure [...]