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Results for: Cityfurnish App Referral code "CF6201271388" Get 500rs Bonus

  • By David Conway |
  • August 16, 2018
City tests interactive wayfinding kiosks

The city is developing a technology-focused program to help people get around town.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Harriet Sokmensuer |
  • January 16, 2014
Booker Middle parent creates first school app

Booker parent Jeremy Scott created Instant BMS, an app to help Booker parents access student grades, class assignments and school events from an Android smartphone.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Emily Walsh |
  • April 19, 2023
Read print, digitally!

I’m happy to introduce a way to read our printed papers each week without getting ink on your fingers.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • December 27, 2019
Quick reads

The Sarasota County Library is now accessible from Town Hall.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • August 20, 2018
Longboat talks citations

The Longboat Observer sat with Longboat's planning, zoning and building director to discuss the town's use of its newly acquired citation process.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • February 3, 2022
Sarasota schools will add ID card readers to buses next year

Students will swipe their ID as they board, disembark school buses.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • January 31, 2024
Getting started with the Breeze OnDemand smartphone app

Here’s everything you need to know to use Sarasota County's ride-share service now available for all of Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • January 7, 2015
2015 Issues to Watch: Form-based code

Halfway through the three-year process of developing a new form-based zoning code for the city of Sarasota, the fruits of the Urban Design Studio's labor are surfacing.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Katie Johns |
  • August 30, 2017
Maria Sharapova keeps track of Longboat

The famed tennis player has Longboat Key listed on her weather app.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • July 11, 2013
Sarasota seeks to decode new zoning rules

As Sarasota begins the planning stages of rewriting its zoning regulations, downtown Bradenton has entered its second year under form-based code.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • November 9, 2017
Rosemary District seeks benefits from new projects

After a spike in residential building in the Rosemary District, the neighborhood hopes to extract community improvements from future high-density developments.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • May 23, 2013
Siesta Overlay District workshop sheds light on codes

A zoning administrator decision prohibits Siesta Key businesses from using portable, or A-frame, signs. Key.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • July 2, 2015
TWIS Asks: TapMap

TWIS Asks: TapMap

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  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 10, 2015
Code enforcement: the good, the bad and the ugly

Based on an increase in call volume, the county’s code enforcement department will seek two additional administration positions to help handle violations.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 12, 2013
Code Board questions enforcement protocols

For the second time in two months, Code Enforcement Board members questioned why they never hold meetings and aren't being utilized to review code violations.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • June 17, 2013
Commissioners to discuss citywide zoning code

The City Commission will also appoint a new planning board member to fill Commissioner Susan Chapman's seat.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 4, 2010
IPOC president forecasts long Islandside project delay

Islandside Property Owners Coalition President Bob White believes a revision of the code will lead to a complete review of the town's Comprehensive Plan.

  • Longboat Key
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