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The move comes with some pushback on expenses for restaurants, which could cost an eatery $50,000.

The policy presented would cost Sarasota restaurants at least $13,000 per year plus construction to offer on-street dining in city parking spaces.

North Tamiami Trail apartments will combine three buildings into one, and a planned mixed-use downtown tower will be a hotel only.

American Public Works Association Florida Chapter named the multi-modal conversion of Ringling Boulevard project of the year.

Nearly all development plans that come before the Sarasota Planning Board have recommendation of approval by staff. Board members asked them why.

The Sarasota Planning Board recommends against approval of the rezoning and site plan for a 250-unit apartment community on the former Doctors Hospital site. The plans call for 42 affordable housing units.

The Sarasota Planning Board has approved the plan for twin apartment developments that will bring 120 units to the northern end of North Trail Overlay District.

Nearly 10 years after it was adopted by the city, the special zoning district meant to improve Tamiami Trail from downtown to University Parkway is beginning to see long-awaited redevelopment.

Sarasota City Commission supports plan to narrow Ringling Boulevard by two lanes for bikes SARASOTA – Sarasota’s vision for safer streets that accommodate cars, bikes, buses and pedestrians received a formal stamp of approval on Monday when the City Commission passed a resolution several years in the making. The plan – which outlines a ‘complete streets’ program to add seven-foot-wide protected bike lanes between Lime and Pineapple avenues and other safety elements on Ringling Bouleva...