Sarasota is 100 years old this year. The Library is holding several public events in honor of the Centennial, including this one about the next 100 years.
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The Future of Sarasota | |
Futurist David Houle will give a presentation on the future of Sarasota County over the next 100 years. He won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world. This virtual program will be hosted in Zoom. | |
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This should be a lively program - far livelier than the dreary meetings our elected officials and various boards - like the Planning Commission - manage to come up with whenever they face the public's failure to understand why its concerns never seem to be dignified with honest, detailed discussions.
Why are we allowing people we elect to give away vast amounts of open land to gated community developers who have nothing new to offer, nothing that bodes well for schools, community, or the environment. Just more of same, a path leading to a kind of unsustainable lifestyle for anything except those who wish to escape community altogether?
There's a brien narrative of how the state built a fairly sensible model of comprehensive planning, then blew it to smithereens that every Floridian should read. It traces the arc of responsible state comprehensive planning in Florida - its birth, evolution, and eventual destruction at the hands of Rick Scott in 2011.
Does the public have any right to meaningful development in Sarasota? Meaningful, that is, culturally, environmentally, socially, aesthetically and economically?
It's not a story to be proud of, but it's certainly one to be fully and consistently aware of:
Florida's Growth Management Odyssey: Revolution, Evolution, Devolution, Resolution - Robert M. Rhodes, 2020
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