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Results for: Seowriting AI Coupon Code SKV25 Get 25% Off on All Plans

  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 23, 2009
Tree code issues still simmering

The Planning and Zoning Board will review the town's controversial tree code in the coming months, after its subcomittee failed to impress.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • January 24, 2019
Foregoing form-based code, city plots zoning changes

The city is abandoning its efforts to adopt a new zoning code, instead opting for a series of revisions to current regulations. How did staff identify planning priorities?

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • 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 |
  • March 16, 2017
Draft code triggers intellectual-property concerns

A planner who contributed to the city’s form-based code says portions of a draft were cribbed from another document, but is that out-of-bounds for government work?

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 5, 2010
Commission moves code changes forward

The commission forwarded code clarifications and changes suggested by the Longboat Key Club and Resort to a second reading Thursday, May 20.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 19, 2010
Sign-code confusion arises

Suggestions offered to clarify and modernize the town's sign code were met with more suggestions and debate from the town's Planning and Zoning Board.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • March 25, 2015
St. Armands highlights vision of city’s new code

After weeks of working with residents on Sarasota’s barrier islands, the Urban Design Studio illustrated what a form-based code may look like in those areas.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 13, 2013
Candidates unveil their platforms

Listed below is a sampling of what the six candidates running for the Longboat Key Town Commission had to say at a debate co-sponsored by the Longboat Observer and the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee Monday, Feb. 11, at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2011
News Briefs

Colony Association will discuss recommendations; IberiaBank to foreclose on Chart House property; DCA approves comp plan amendment changes; Town hires part-time code enforcement officer

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • November 25, 2025
Longboat Key to consider adding solar power chapter to town code

Solar panel installations are not prohibited under town code currently but could still lead to code enforcement action.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • September 11, 2014
Short-term Siesta rental violations on the rise

Long after season faded, private homes are still being rented against code.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Lisa Nisenson |
  • June 12, 2012
People of Walmart: Sarasota Edition

People of Walmart: Sarasota Edition

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  • Things To Do
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 18, 2011
Klauber seeks residency decision

Dr. Murray 'Murf' Klauber has a contract pending for his living quarters at The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort. But the contract will fall apart if the town doesn't allow the buyer to live there full time.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 22, 2011
Condo residents unaware of fire code regulations

In most high-rise condominium buildings, when a fire alarm on one floor goes off, alarms also sound on just the two floors above it and the floor below it, according to the county's chief Fire Prevention Division inspector.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 18, 2013
News Briefs

Police pension plan set to freeze in January; Town keeps watch for red drift algae due to summer rain; Christmas holiday changes

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • January 3, 2018
Issues to watch 2018: Zoning codes

The city and county will both review proposed changes to development regulations this year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2009
IN BRIEF

COMMUNITY NEWS AND NOTES

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Suzanne Elliott |
  • October 12, 2018
Longboat moves ahead with pathway to redevelopment

Involuntary and voluntary are the same in new Longboat zoning.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By John McGuire |
  • May 24, 2017
With court ruling in mind, Longboat considers new sign rules

Longboat Key plans June 13 open house to explain the coming changes.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • January 9, 2018
Longboat sign code rewrite not to be heard again until after elections

Town staff have been working to rewrite the towns sign code for more than a year following a Supreme Court decision that invalidated its current code.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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