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SARASOTA COUNTY – Sarasota County commissioners agreed Tuesday to gut a seldom-used citizen-initiated process to revise the county’s official roadmap for growth.   Without discussion, officials agreed to eliminate the process that allows 20 registered voters to petition the county to initiate what’s called a comprehensive plan amendment.   The decision was unanimous and kills an effort by 250 residents who moved last month to encourage the county to fulfill a promise it has made for 26 years to update two essential rural planning maps. The residents argued that because...

4 months ago Share Gary Kompothecras is proposing a 120-bed hotel and a five story garage along Old Stickney Point Road. For more than two hours, nearly 100 residents argued over a proposal for a 120-unit hotel on South Siesta Key, likely foreshadowing the approval process ahead. The proposal is one of three that requests changes to density and transient accommodations on the Key, which many residents fear will change the nature of the island and exacerbate traffic on one of the Key’s main entry points. The seven-story hotel is proposed on just more than an acre owned by G...