UPCOMING MEETINGS, & NOTICES & HAPPENINGS

Monday May 23, 3 - 7pm, City Hall Annex Media Studio:  public educational open house about Complete Streets.  Specific to two upcoming Complete Street projects in planning for Boulevard of the Arts.  3pm - 4:30pm section west of US41, 5:30pm Boulevard of the Arts and 10th Street east of US41.   Also, see our  Ringling Trail page for more details about our neighborhood's local Complete Street project, or go to this open house for general info about Complete Streets (other than details specific to  Ringling Blvd project).

THURSDAY May 26, 7 pm  AVNA: Alta Vista Neighborhood Association meeting.  At CORE SRQ (the "Y" at corner of Euclid & Bahia Vista).  See the AVNA MeetUp website for more details .  
May Meeting Agenda:  Public Schools discussion, also Hatton Street Traffic Calming. See also Traffic Calming
City rep will present Hatton Street traffic calming options (Striping and signage, chicane, speed table) to be decided by meeting participants, after which resident signatures will be required to move forward.

Traffic Alert 5/16/2022 - early 2023  Work on the Ringling Trail (Ringling Blvd Complete Streets project) begins week of May 16, 2022, expected to be completed in early 2023.  See  Ringling Trail page for details.

Keeping Up Appearances:   Code Compliance  Responsibilities of all residents, owners AND renters; a list of frequent code violations/ requirements aimed at keeping the neighborhoods somewhat nice.  I.E., you can't keep unregistered junk cars in your front yard; you must take your trash barrels back into side/back yard after trash day.  Simple stuff like that.  Stuff your naughty neighbor is doing that brings down the niceness of the neighborhood, plus how to report it to the City, in the unlikely event that speaking kindly to your neighbor fails to get results.

Summer 2022:  Sarasota High S-cool Perimeter Security  Re-Fencing Project  

Summer 2022  The MURT = pedestrian enhancements around west side of SHS (Sarasota High School).   In 2019 the School District committed to pedestrian mitigation no later than August 2022. See The Murt page for lots of details.  Work currently planned to begin by the 2nd week of June 2022.

Free trolley-bus to St. Armands and Lido Key:  Begun March 2022 by the City, the first stop, at School Av & Main St, is very close to our neighborhood:  just walk up School Ave by Payne Park to Ringling Blvd, then cross [depending on time of day, you might stop in next door to get a delicious Five-O donut, i'm just sayin'] & continue north on that little cut-thru sidewalk, just one Very Short block to the Main St. stop.  It's a pilot program at this point. See their website for details Sarasotabayrunner.com

2022:  more new nearby development in the pipeline.  Bahia Vista Apartments at corner of Tuttle & Bahia Vista; proposed large apartment complex, next planning step Planning Review Board to be scheduled (?July 2022?).   Sarasota Car Wash at Main and Lime (between Ringling and Fruitville, replacing the old Lime Laundromat).  Construction of new WAWA just across Fruitville.

Duplicate Power Poles on School Ave: March 2022  update.  8 poles gone, and only 1 old pole still remains to be removed...FPL, the City, and Comcast are working on getting wires moved so that they can take down the old poles that were forgotten back when new poles were installed 3 years ago...

Click-2-Fix: the City's mobile app. Free; search for “CoS Click-to-Fix” on your Apple or Android app store. 
311Connect: the County's mobile app (new March 2022). Free; search for “311Connect” on your Apple or Android app store. 
See also Useful Links for descriptions. 

GET YOURSELF IN THE CITY NEWS PIPELINE!

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.

- City News: comprehensive weekly email from mayor's office, 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​