The Sarasota Planning Commission recommended approval of Benderson Development's wish to change the zoning of the Fruitville Initiative at its August 6, 2021 meeting.
If approved by the County Commission, both Benderson and other owners of parcels within the Fruitville Initiative will be free to plan for larger, free standing retail spaces.
As has been noted, the idea of bringing in commercial traffic to a place where people live and work goes against the grain of the original idea for the Initiative - an idea worked out in concert among three parties -- landowners, residential HOAs, and the County -- in 2010-11.
In the early days of thinking about this project, three different depictions showed what the Initiative could be:
The Duany group of Miami offered this overview (pdf)
The California firm of Moule & Polyzoides looked at a possible interface between the Benderson parcel and the waters at the north end of the Celery Fields:
And the Hoyt architectural firm in Sarasota produced this video:
Will any of these possibilities be realized now that Benderson has changed the rules?
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