UPCOMING MEETINGS, & NOTICES & HAPPENINGS
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Thursday October 21, 6:30-8:10pm at SHS Football Stadium: Sarasota High School Homecoming Community Event and Pep Rally.
Principal David Jones invites the community to participate! Lots of fun activities, including a rare SHS performance of Thriller (!!!), and fireworks at the end! Free! Read All About It! |
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October 31, 7-10pm Halloween on S. Lime Ave
Enlightened Monkey Arts again presents a fabulous free, family-friendly Halloween walkabout experience over on SLime at the cul-de-sac (just south of Ringling Blvd). You can wander over to preview some of the sights starting Oct 10, which will whet your appetite for the full show on Halloween! Believe me, this is a unique, really cool experience! Details |
Wondered about the new Construction Site at Hatton & Shade? Actually, they're using the land as a remote work site (materials, etc) for a streetlights project down on Bee Ridge. Nothing's actually being constructed on the Hatton/Shade lot.
UPCOMING City Commission Meeting Date tba: New Tree Protection Ordinance. to be continued from Sept 8th meeting. Proposed changes to Zoning Code for Tree Protection. (more details, including reference to extensive backup documents)
Legacy Trail construction update Oct 2021: construction is happening full-out on "our" section, from Payne Park to Pinecraft (Bahia Vista St). The nearby portions include the trail along the old RR tracks, from Fruitville Road, across Ringling Blvd, between Lyra (old Ringling Shopping Center) and Payne Park Village. There is a little east-west spur just south of Payne Park Village, north of Novus St, that connects up to School Ave at the south edge of Payne Park. They should also be working on, at some point, the connector along the old Shopping Way, north of Payne Park Village, to connect to Payne Park's east entrance plaza (near the blinking traffic lights on School Ave).
Upcoming... SHS (Sarasota High School) new perimeter re-fencing. Originally, in 2019, projected for completion by August 2020, the latest (July 2021) update from School District is that design and construction schedule are in the works.
Unfortunately, installation of the pipe trenching for the new portable classrooms appears to have blocked or removed the underground stormwater drainage system, resulting in severe rainwater ponding along the fenceline with the Bay St homes. Sarasota County Mosquito Control has been called, and is on the job getting the school to deal with the resultant mosquito breeding issue. Mr. DuBois (project manager for SHS construction projects) has assured me that they will be dealing with regrading the low areas in conjunction with the refencing. More details as we receive them.
Unfortunately, installation of the pipe trenching for the new portable classrooms appears to have blocked or removed the underground stormwater drainage system, resulting in severe rainwater ponding along the fenceline with the Bay St homes. Sarasota County Mosquito Control has been called, and is on the job getting the school to deal with the resultant mosquito breeding issue. Mr. DuBois (project manager for SHS construction projects) has assured me that they will be dealing with regrading the low areas in conjunction with the refencing. More details as we receive them.
Fall 2021 more new nearby development proposals in the pipeline. Bahia Vista Apartments at Tuttle & Bahia Vista, Sarasota Car Wash at Main and Lime (between Ringling and Fruitville), Artists Court across Washington Blvd from the Terrace Building on Adams Street, ...
Re Bahia Vista Apartments, video of Community Workshop (Zoom) Aug9, including public comments, is now available on City website at https://sarasota.granicus.com/player/clip/10892?view_id=99&redirect=true
Re Bahia Vista Apartments, video of Community Workshop (Zoom) Aug9, including public comments, is now available on City website at https://sarasota.granicus.com/player/clip/10892?view_id=99&redirect=true
Ongoing, fall 2021 In the works: new or improved pedestrian crossing markings, refreshed paint striping of existing crosswalks, and signage at various neighborhood intersections. See Traffic Calming for more details.
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Duplicate Power Poles on School Ave are going to go away: Oct 2021 update! After repeated, ongoing requests, an online complaint to the Public Service Commission (PSC) resulted in FPL double-checking this issue; they discovered that they never processed the request correctly for Frontier & Verizon to migrate their wires to the new (circa 2018-2019) utility poles. (New poles were installed in 2019? but the old ones were not removed.)
FPL has now removed the duplicate poles between Wood and Novus, and They tell me that the last 4 poles, between Wood and Hatton, should be removed by the end of the year. Fingers crossed... |
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Click-2-Fix: New Service Request App, the City's new, convenient mobile app.
"If you happen to be out and about and would like to submit a non-emergency service request immediately, you can do so now with a few taps on your cell phone. For example, you may notice a streetlight isn’t working properly. You can report it through Click-2-Fix and even send a photo, if you’d like.
Within the app, a drop-down menu offers 10 categories for service requests: code compliance, noise complaint, public landscaping/trees, park issues, parking, safety hazards, sewer issues, streets/signs/streetlights, trash/recycling and water issues.
The specific location of the request is pinpointed through GIS mapping on your mobile device. Once submitted, you can receive tracking updates on the service request. ...
The app is free and available now via Apple and Android app stores. Open your app store and search for “CoS Click-to-Fix”. "
"If you happen to be out and about and would like to submit a non-emergency service request immediately, you can do so now with a few taps on your cell phone. For example, you may notice a streetlight isn’t working properly. You can report it through Click-2-Fix and even send a photo, if you’d like.
Within the app, a drop-down menu offers 10 categories for service requests: code compliance, noise complaint, public landscaping/trees, park issues, parking, safety hazards, sewer issues, streets/signs/streetlights, trash/recycling and water issues.
The specific location of the request is pinpointed through GIS mapping on your mobile device. Once submitted, you can receive tracking updates on the service request. ...
The app is free and available now via Apple and Android app stores. Open your app store and search for “CoS Click-to-Fix”. "
Summer 2021 Big Drone Sightings! No, not alien spaceships. Rather, FPL is having a contractor survey their overhead electric lines, using drone camera technology, in our neighborhood to see where they need to do tree trimming again.
Payne Park update on future plans: The April 2021 repurposing of part of Payne Park (since resolved) took everyone by surprise. Because of that...I asked Jerry Fogle, Parks Dept Head, for a public presentation on actual plans for Payne Park for, say, the next three years. Mr Fogle replied that maintenance of parks is the only short-term plan, so no public meeting is being scheduled at this time. See Q&A for details regarding short-term plans for Payne Park.
Summer - 2021 Sewer Laterals Lining You may see trucks about, and fresh green marking paint on manhole covers. The City is continuing its project of relining (instead of digging/replacing) a lot of the old sewer lines, now in our neighborhood. The process, sequentially: first they jet the lines (like power washing), then run a camera through them to see what they need to see, then they re-line the old pipes. (No, they don't do the pipes that run between the street and each house.)
Sarasota Orchestra in Payne Park 3.1: NOT! Sept 9 Observer article reports that Sarasota Orchestra definitively will not be looking to build in Payne Park. (Read about the history of this issue.)
2021 Sarasota High School construction. They've totally redone the football field: new drainage and artificial turf, and a big new state-of-the-art video scoreboard. Also, they plan to be replacing the asphalt track with improved, rubberized surface. (A little editorial footnote: Once upon a time the School District offered to let local residents use these athletic facilities during summer break; however, with modern security concerns plus alleged constant, year-round school activities, this offer of sharing with the taxpayers has fallen by the wayside.) Also, six new portable classrooms have been put in to accommodate increased number of students.
Upcoming... The MURT = west-side pedestrian enhancements around SHS (Sarasota High School). In conjunction with the permanent closure of School Ave at SHS, enhancements were promised for around the now-mega-block campus. See The Murt page and ... Watch for further info...
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In case you ever wondered how to keep up with City news, a few good sources for City news are:
- City webpage news tab: features the list of recent news item announcements.
- City list of upcoming public meetings. Includes agenda items and links to backup documents. Scroll down for archives of past public meetings, including always-essential detailed backup documents.
- Mayor's Update: comprehensive weekly email which also includes upcoming City meetings with links to agendas. Sign up to receive this and/or other communications from City at https://www.sarasotafl.gov/services/email-subscriptions
In case you ever wondered how to keep up with City news, a few good sources for City news are:
- City webpage news tab: features the list of recent news item announcements.
- City list of upcoming public meetings. Includes agenda items and links to backup documents. Scroll down for archives of past public meetings, including always-essential detailed backup documents.
- Mayor's Update: comprehensive weekly email which also includes upcoming City meetings with links to agendas. Sign up to receive this and/or other communications from City at https://www.sarasotafl.gov/services/email-subscriptions
