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Today, the city of Sarasota and Sarasota County frequently find themselves unable to work together on major issues. How did they get to this point? Can they get past it?

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A 2014 joint effort between Sarasota County and the city of Sarasota to construct a homeless shelter led to acrimony, harsh accusations and ultimately, no solution. “There is a clear path by the administration in the city to sabotage this process,” County Commissioner Joe Barbetta said at the time. That same summer, discussion about the future of the downtown SCAT transfer station saw the city question the county’s thought process and clamor for more control. “You’d rather be driving the bus than under the bus,” City Commissioner Shannon Snyder said. In January of this year, the county sought the transfer of city-owned land as promised in a 2003 agreement. The lack of response from the city angered the county, and the city attorney would later call the

original agreement a sham. Time and time again, when the city and the county begin working together on major policy issues, they have found themselves eventually butting heads. Though some individuals downplay the severity, there’s a general agreement that there is a divide between the two governments that has become more pronounced over the past five years. But the divide didn’t always exist. In 2005, the city and county were in the midst of what City Attorney Robert Fournier called a “love train” in a memo earlier this year. (That memo, naturally, was written to address ongoing tension between the city and county.) What made the love train derail, and how can it get back on track? An examination of the past 15 years of city-county relations shows a rise and fall driven by financial issues, philosophical differences and personality clashes. STORY CONTINUES ON 2A

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KEY PLAYERS A snapshot of city and county officials, past and present, who helped shape the relationship between the two governments over the past 15 years:

JIM LEY

County Administrator, 1997-2011 A tough negotiator, but one who worked well with City Manager Mike McNees.

MIKE MCNEES City Manager, 2001-2007

Negotiated the 2003 agreement that ushered in the city-county “love train.”

SHANNON STAUB

County Commissioner, 1996-2010

LOU ANN PALMER City Commissioner, 2001-2009

As commission chairwoman and mayor, Staub and Palmer, respectively, drove to unite the city and county during a tense period.

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Learning from history … or doomed to repeat it? CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A

The Origins

When Mike McNees became city manager in 2001, the entire country was grappling with a recession after an unprecedented period of growth. An equally daunting challenge, city staff warned him, would be dealing with County Administrator Jim Ley. “Jim was a tough guy to negotiate with,” McNees said. “He certainly fought for the things he thought were in the county’s interest.” Ley highlighted some of the issues dividing the two governments at the beginning of the decade: funding the downtown Community Redevelopment Area, county management of city-owned parks and city firefighter pensions after city-county fire services were consolidated. “The common theme in all of them is money, as always is the case,” Ley said. The use of downtown CRA money — city and county property tax revenue that could be spent only on improving downtown Sarasota —was a particular point of frustration for Ley. The point of the CRA, Ley said, was that it would eventually reap benefits via increased property values. By the early 2000s,

he wondered if the investment would ever actually bear fruit. “I thought they weren’t doing what it takes,” Ley said of the city. “They chased a lot of development proposals away.” In early 2003, the county presented a major vote of no confidence in downtown Sarasota. The county agreed to explore the possibility of moving hundreds of workers from downtown offices to a building near I-75 formerly used by Arthur Andersen. City Attorney Robert Fournier has questioned the motives of the county during this period. In a March memo, Fournier suggested the relocation served as a ploy to extract crucial concessions from the city — one that would prove successful in just a few months. “I believe that the county administrator skillfully exploited the panic he had engendered by his announcement to the county’s benefit and the city’s detriment,” Fournier wrote. Ley chaffed at Fournier’s assessment. He said a county analysis showed the unincorporated offices would save money, and population growth in the county skewed to the south — creating an incentive to relocate county workers. Either way, the city acted swiftly to keep the county in place — and out of the flames of the potential relocation, the two sides forged a

strong relationship. “Everybody had different interests, but working together was going to get us a lot farther,” McNees said.

The Love Train

If the city and county began 2003 at a breaking point, they ended the year heading optimistically into the future. By summer, the two boards had hammered out a memorandum of understanding outlining eight “principles of agreement.” In the document, the county agreed it would attempt to keep its offices downtown, and the city agreed to transfer the former police station site at 2050 Ringling Blvd. to the county, among other points. Ley says change came about because the heads of both boards simply had the will to get to work: “It was Lou Ann Palmer and Shannon Staub, when we were at an impasse, that got wrapped up in us working together,” Ley said. “They went to their boards and they got the authority to work out a solution.” Staub, who served on the County Commission until 2010, said she didn’t recall any issues between the two governments after the MOU was in place. She said the two boards had great respect for one another. “Maybe it’s the fact that women don’t pull punches, so it’s easy to

work with just about anybody to get things satisfied,” Staub said. “And if not, you agree to disagree — and to not hold it against them in the next conversation.” The harmony went beyond the two commissions; both administrators found they clicked with one other, too. The two met on the basketball court as well as at City Hall. “Business is business, and we dealt with it professionally,” McNees said. “That’s what people in our position are expected to do. ... It just was never personal.” Still, the city and county never codified the vast majority of the principles in the MOU. Fournier took a critical tone regarding the tangible progress made in the wake of that agreement. Despite the lack of concrete results, both Ley and McNees bristled at the assertion that the positive vibes were ultimately a false high. “The city attorney made a silly comment, suggesting there was some sort of a ‘love train’ going on, as if people were delusional or in some state of euphoria,” McNees said. “I think it’s remarkably cynical to say that, when the elected officials and appointed officials had a sense of cooperation, that’s something to belittle.” In hindsight, Staub agreed it was a missed opportunity not to iron out the details of the MOU.

SOUND OFF “Sometimes you just have fundamental philosophical differences. That’s not totally unusual in government. Sometimes, you have to just agree to disagree.” — Former City Manager Bob Bartolotta

“We worked right there; City Hall was within walking distance. It was a good feeling when the two commissions worked together and we would leave smiling.” — Former County Commissioner Shannon Staub

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ROBERT FOURNIER

BOB BARTOLOTTA

A critic of the lack of concrete results produced in the wake of the 2003 city-county agreement.

Led the city through a severe recession, working less successfully with Ley than his predecessor.

City Attorney, 2004-present

City Manager, 2007-2012

TOM BARWIN

City Manager, 2012-present

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TOM HARMER

County Administrator, 2014-present

The current city and county administrators are positive about their relationship, but admit there are challenges to working together on policy.

TIMELINE

Alex Mahadevan

The Whole Foods project captures the rise and fall of the city-county relationship: Jim Ley called it the best thing the downtown CRA produced, but today, that funding mechanism is another source of tension.

“I think the city commissioners and county commissioners felt so good about reaching this understanding that we didn’t think about future commissioners misconstruing it,” Staub said. Fournier said when he attempted to codify elements of the MOU, he got pushback from administration and commissioners who worried about jeopardizing the city-county peace. Even today, McNees doesn’t know if the environment was right to solidify the agreements in the MOU. “We tried to deal with each other in good faith, and I don’t think there’s a whole lot of misunderstanding about what was intended, because those things are written down,” McNees said. In 2007, at least two crucial elements of the newly sunny citycounty relationship were eliminated: economic stability, and City Manager Mike McNees, who resigned that January. “I think it’s a shame that Mike had to move on, because I felt like we were really beginning to work in a rhythm together,” Ley said.

The Decline

Like McNees, Bob Bartolotta became city manager during a recession. Unlike McNees, the economic downturn Bartolotta

faced was more severe and his personal connection with Ley was not as strong. “I think the relationships were cordial, but that doesn’t mean the positions were always agreed on,” Bartolotta said. “Sometimes you just have fundamental philosophical differences.” The late 2000s set the stage for conflicts playing out today. The city and county attempted to codify elements of the MOU, but Fournier said the county wouldn’t commit to quantitative measures of its downtown presence. Eventually, negotiations stopped — Fournier said he and Bartolotta realized they were “being taken for fools.” The issue is still festering today. A 2010 interlocal agreement returned the control of all “nonregional” city parks to the city, allowing the county to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. Today, as the economy recovers, the city has expressed an interest in potentially revisiting that agreement. After Bartolotta took over, the downtown CRA once again became a point of contention for Ley. Although he was happy to see the CRA produce projects such as the new Whole Foods, as downtown grew, he believed the city

BREAKING POINTS In addition to homelessness, the police station land and the SCAT transfer site, other major issues dividing the two sides include:

DOWNTOWN CRA

PARKS FUNDING

The Community Redevelopment Area collects property tax revenue otherwise destined for the city and county general funds. The city wants to keep it around past its 2016 expiration date, but the county is cool on the idea.

The county returned control of all non-regional parks to the city in 2010 because of the recession. Today, the city has expressed interest in revisiting the agreement as parks maintenance presents a challenge.

was once again moving away from spending funds on major projects to beef up property tax revenues. “Part of what had me frustrated is, I was more and more convinced that the city was using CRA money for operating purposes,” Ley said, criticizing the city’s use of CRA funding on police services. “(Bartolotta’s) argument was, ‘We have more intense development downtown, which increases our police responsibility.’ Well, that’s why you’re supposed to be growing your tax base.” Set to expire in 2016, renewing the downtown CRA has become another point of disagreement between the city and county today. Although Bartolotta refrained from negatively characterizing the relationship between the city and county during his tenure, he also shied away from describing it as healthy. “I would say there were some successes over the last 10 years,” Bartolotta said. “I’m not saying the relationship was good or bad.”

The Present

As leadership has shuffled — Tom Barwin replaced Bartolotta in 2012; in 2012, Ley was replaced by Randy Reid, who was then replaced by Tom Harmer in 2014 — the relationship between the city and county has grown icier. Over and over again, similar problems arise. For the city, the issue of “dual taxation” — getting taxed for county services but not receiving the same level of service as unincorporated county residents — has become a growing sticking point. The county has expressed frustration with the city’s decision-making, highlighting a philosophical divide. The current administrators characterize the city-county relationship as strong — pointing to areas of collaboration such as stormwater management and emergency medical services — but they admit there are hurdles when it comes to making policy. “I know one of the philosophies

that drives our county is the lowest possible tax rate, but at what point do you expand the discussion to include quality of life, improving services and maybe the exorbitant costs of continuing to do business as we’ve always done it?” Barwin said. “I think financial pressure has forced a little bit of friction onto the county and others,” Harmer said. It’s easy to get the sense history is repeating itself. Earlier this year, the county, interested in obtaining the city-owned Ringling Boulevard property promised in the 2003 MOU, reached out to the city in pursuit of the land. After hearing no response, the county halted plans to expand services along Ringling Boulevard, suggesting the city might not be a good fit for new county offices. “I question whether the county can stay in downtown at all,” County Commissioner Christine Robinson said. “We shouldn’t be fragmented.”

Learning from the Past

With both city and county elections taking place since November, there is a sense of optimism among the boards that they can forge a better relationship soon. With the advantage of perspective, those officials imparted wisdom about how to facilitate a healthier working environment. “The two bodies will never agree on everything because to some degree, there are elements of the relationship that are zero sum,” McNees said. “My attitude was about solving a problem instead of fighting only for the best interest of the city.” “I always tried to see both sides of the story,” Ley said. “It’s about being respectful. It’s not two boys standing at a tree and trying to piss up it to see how high they can go.” “We met at least two times per year with the city of Sarasota,” Staub said. “That, I think, helped a lot with communications, and you could get projects that could be looked at jointly on the table.” “Sometimes, you have to just agree to disagree,” Bartolotta said. Both sides plan to revisit issues that have divided them. The city is pursuing a new homelessness plan and wants to extend the downtown CRA before it sunsets in 2016. The county is still interested in obtaining the former police station land. Both parties are working together on transportation issues this summer. As the two sides prepare to come to the table to discuss those topics and more, they have an opportunity to change the narrative — even if reviving the love train seems unlikely. “It doesn’t seem like this should be such a big issue, but it gets bigger and bigger the longer it takes and the more people chatter about it,” Staub said.

2001

Mike McNees hired as city manager. Recession.

Spring 2003

The county explores the possibility of moving offices out of downtown Sarasota.

Summer 2003

The city and county approve a Memorandum of Understanding, keeping county offices downtown.

2004

City agrees to let county withdraw from downtown Community Redevelopment Area in 2016.

2007

Mike McNees resigns; Bob Bartolotta hired as city manager. Recession.

2010

County withdraws funding for all non-regional city parks.

2011

County Administrator Jim Ley resigns.

2012

City Manager Bob Bartolotta resigns. Randy Reid hired as county administrator. Tom Barwin hired as city manager.

2013

City and county agree to hire Robert Marbut to address homelessness issues. Randy Reid fired.

2014

Tom Harmer hired as county administrator. City and county homeless shelter discussions fall apart. Advisory committee recommends extending downtown CRA beyond 2016.

2015

County asks city for Ringling Boulevard land promised in 2003 MOU. City attorney Robert Fournier calls the MOU “a sham.” County halts plans to expand services in downtown Sarasota.

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Before the city agreed to remove the concrete tables from the pavilion, Gillespie Park resident Linda Holland regularly helped clean them in preparation for the children’s reading program hosted in the park.

Homeless discussion leads to Gillespie Park upgrades After the city decided to move tables at the Gillespie Park pavilion, residents and staff were able to determine other avenues for improving the park.

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It started as a simple request to relocate some tables and a grill at Gillespie Park in March — a request that was initially denied. Over the past month, however, that request has morphed into a series of city-approved upgrades currently underway at the neighborhood park. Although issues associated

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What’s changing at Gillespie Park?

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Removal of three flag poles

Four new wooden picnic tables

Relocation of picnic table for new grill

– Linda Holland, president of the Gillespie Park Neighborhood Association

Donated bird house Removal of four concrete slabs

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ing in tandem — to collaborate with Public Works General Manager Todd Kucharski on implementing the changes. It turned out, the issues at the park went beyond homelessness. Holland said the homeless problem, although pronounced in the second half of 2014, had become overblown to some degree. The problem wasn’t necessarily the homeless population itself but a smaller criminal element that associated with the larger crowds at the park. So far this year, she said, things have been much more peaceful. “Things come and go in waves,” Holland said. “We’re not having issues in the park now. There haven’t been for a number of months.” The City Commission decision was initially misreported by some as a removal of the tables altogether, similar to the removal of benches at Five Points Park after homelessness issues arose there. On the contrary, Holland says — the changes will actually add more tables to the park, placed in

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TABLE TALK:

“You don’t have to go down and slam your shoe on the commission table and say, ‘We demand this, we have to have this, we have to spend money on this.’”

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with a growing homeless population in the park sparked the problem, they provided city staff and residents the opportunity to discuss the future of the shared public realm. As a result, they came up with a series of small improvements designed to benefit the neighborhood, not just make it difficult for homeless individuals to congregate. “It shows how neighborhoods can work with the city to get these things done,” said Linda Holland, president of the Gillespie Park Neighborhood Association. “You don’t have to go down and slam your shoe on the commission table and say, ‘We demand this, we have to have this, we have to spend money on this.’” At the May 4 City Commission meeting, commissioners received a report from the Parks, Recreation and Environmental Protection advisory board. One item in that report was a denied request to relocate tables from the pavilion area of Gillespie Park — which, as recently as December, was cited as a catalyst for crime and sanitation issues by some residents. At that PREP board meeting, Holland and resident Linda Jacob also discussed the importance of establishing more space for a children’s reading program that takes place at the police substation located near the pavilion. They hoped relocating concrete tables and the aging grill would help make the space more inviting, but the PREP board voted down the idea in a 3-2 vote. But the commission disagreed, ultimately voting in favor of relocating the materials. That created an opportunity for Gillespie Park residents — represented by two neighborhood associations work-

The two existing concrete tables will be replaced with five new wooden picnic tables. Concrete pads near the pavilion will be replaced with grass, making the area more consistent. The city will also remove three flagpoles in the northeast corner of the park, which had become hidden by tree growth, installing a new one near the pavilion. Another one of those flagpoles will be used to house a donated birdhouse for purple martins.

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areas where they’re likely to get more use. “One of the things they’re going to do is add some new picnic tables down by the playground area in the shade,” Holland said. “It’s going to be a pleasant place for people to come and have legitimate gatherings and picnics.” Holland, who met with Kucharski and Original Gillespie Park Neighborhood Association

President Lee DeLieto Jr. last week, was enthusiastic about the changes coming to the park as a result of their discussions. “This meeting with Todd was one of the best on-site meetings I’ve been to in years,” Holland said. Kucharski was also happy about how fruitful the meeting was, attributing the productivity to the residents’ level of engage-

ment. He said residents throughout the city should feel welcome to reach out to staff if they see room for improvements in their neighborhood park. “We’re a maintenance group, maintaining the park for the public,” Kucharski said. “When we get feedback on things they’d like to see or enhance, it makes it easier for us, because then we don’t have to guess.”

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Tree troubles take root in Hudson Bayou As bigger houses sprout up in the neighborhood, trees are disappearing. DAVID CONWAY NEWS EDITOR

Rob Patten is pretty familiar with landscape design, architecture and environmental preservation, and he’s got a major problem with what’s happening to the trees in his neighborhood, Hudson Bayou. “There’s a disturbing and rapid trend,” Patten said. “What’s happening is stately oaks and other trees are removed indiscriminately, I would say, when older houses are sold and the houses are removed to build much larger houses.” Patten, who is a partner with the landscape architecture firm AquaTerra and formerly served as the Sarasota County director of environmental services, is also the president of the Hudson Bayou Neighborhood Association. At a neighborhood meeting May 16, residents in the area met and agreed the phenomenon of disappearing trees at construction sites is becoming a worrisome issue. “Residents offered to form a committee, to do the research and present the information with the city, to meet with the builders,” Patten said. “It struck a real cord.” Tree issues aren’t unique to Hudson Bayou. In October, residents of Arlington Park discussed the same problem on vacant lots in their neighborhood, attempt-

ing to brainstorm a solution. At meetings of the Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations this year, representatives for multiple areas of the city have expressed concern about the well-being of their trees, raising the possibility of working together to solve the ongoing problem. Based on this growing anxiety, it’s clear the presence of these trees — large oaks that are decades old or clusters that create a natural canopy above the entire neighborhood — are critical elements of the fabric of several city neighborhoods. It’s an element residents won’t let go of without a fight. Patten and other Hudson Bayou residents aren’t just interested in shining a light on the problem, however. They’re determined to legitimately find a solution to prevent more trees from leaving their neighborhood, focusing on three factors they believe are heavily contributing to the current environment. The first problem, Patten said, is that builders view trees as a hassle without looking at the big picture. If residents can establish a dialog with the builders in the neighborhood, he hopes he can extol the virtue of planning around the trees, instead of paving over them to build the largest house possible. “(Trees) can add thousands of dollars of value, and yet some builders feel it’s costing them money because it’ll take them two more days to preserve it,” Patten said. “It’s kind of short-sighted.” That leads to his second prong:

Not only are houses being built bigger as the economy recovers; they often ape a retro style. As a result, Patten said, landscape architects are using a retro model of thinking when constructing ’50s- and ’60s-style homes, one that doesn’t prioritize preservation. He called on those architects to lead the charge when builders come to them with a new parcel. “Rather than just planting three or four tall royal palms, I think they need to set the trends and modernize the approach for building these houses,” Patten said. Finally, Patten arrives at a point that many other neighborhoods have raised before him. He believes the city’s tree protection ordinance needs to become more stringent. Although the Urban Design Studio is working on adding additional protections for trees, Patten said Hudson Bayou couldn’t afford to wait for those changes to be approved. Residents are looking at regulations in other municipalities for guidance before going to the city with their findings. City staff was present to listen at this month’s Hudson Bayou Neighborhood Association meeting. City arborist Nigel Weait said the city was responsive to neighborhood concerns when they pop up, though he declined to comment on whether tree removal was a growing problem citywide. Still, Patten doesn’t want to rely too heavily on government involvement. He is hopeful that by getting the ears of builders and designers, all parties could work

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Little remains of two trees at this lot on Hawthorne Street, which Hudson Bayou Neighborhood Association President Rob Patten says exemplifies an ongoing issue in the area.

toward a solution. “I firmly believe, if you have meaningful dialog with the people who are part of the situation, you can get a lot done without bringing government regulations into it,” Patten said. The newly formed Hudson Bayou tree taskforce is already setting out to talk to anyone and everyone that may be able to help cut down on the tree removal. If their efforts aren’t effective, Patten isn’t optimistic about the future impact on the city. “We’re talking about oaks of 50 to 100 years old that are being cut down and replaced with 12-foot saplings,” Patten said. “That just doesn’t make sense. We’re destroying the goose that lays the golden egg by destroying the character of our neighborhood.”

TREE RULES Currently, city regulations only prevent the removal of a “grand tree,” defined as a live oak with a diameter of 24 inches or more at breast height. The city also requires a permit to remove any non-citrus tree with a diameter greater than 4.5 inches at breast height.

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A black-bellied plover roams the remaining beach left near south Siesta Key.

Erosion places south Siesta on the rocks Walking from south Siesta Key to Casey Key? The walk is getting tougher due to sand loss and a new rock structure.

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Joe Schmitt has walked to Casey Key from Siesta Key’s Turtle Beach along the Gulf of Mexico at least twice a week for the last 20 years. “Sometimes I walk all the way onto Casey Key,” Schmitt said. “It depends how much energy I have.” But his usual path along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline has become more treacherous since

Fisherman’s Cove, located at 9000 Blind Pass Road, finished rebuilding a protective rock structure in April, and currents continue to suck sand away from the front of the property. As concerned Siesta Key residents rally against plans to dredge Big Pass for sand to renourish Lido Beach, properties on the south end of Siesta continue to face erosion issues of their own. And the fix is still stuck in permitting limbo. “Over the last few months

we’ve lost the last little bits of beach,” said Fisherman’s Cove Rental and Property Manager Rhonda Holliday. The beach was renourished with more than 870,000 cubic yards of sand in its first phase in 2007, “but ever since then, Mother Nature has been taking it back,” she said. But, with the designation of a migratory bird called the rufa red knot as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in December and changes to federal permitting requirements to protect loggerhead turtles, the county’s application is still waiting for federal approval. “We got kind of a doublewhammy,” said Sarasota County Coastal Initiatives Manager Laird Wreford. “We, like so many other renourishment applicants, are suddenly caught in this vice of waiting for the federal permitting issue to be resolved before moving ahead with the project.” Schmitt said he understands the delay and Fisherman’s Cove’s need to bolster its shoreline with a bulkier rock revetment, but he just thinks it would be fair for the county to provide a sandy walkway over part of the rock structure, which existed prior to the latest wave of erosion. “I don’t blame them a damn bit because they’re just protecting their property,” Schmitt said. “But we should all get along.” Wreford said the county had roped off the former path because the tide swept the sand away and it has become too dangerous, though Schmitt said he just walks under the barrier. Between nearby property owners being taxed to pay for the projects, environmentalists fighting against — or for — habitat protection and recreational users

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“We got kind of a double-whammy. We, like so many other renourishment applicants, are suddenly caught in this vice of waiting for the federal permitting issue to be resolved before moving ahead with the project.” — Sarasota County Coastal Initiatives Manager Laird Wreford

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High home prices outside of downtown and on the keys can be laid squarely on the shoulders of land-use regulations.”

You want affordable housing? L ike many relatively wealthy and desirable communities, Sarasota is not a place where affordable housing is easy to find. Of course, that depends on your definition of affordable.

ADRIAN MOORE

As former City Commissioner Eileen Normile told the Observer, “I don’t know how we understand the term ‘affordable housing’ without defining what that term is. What’s affordable to one person isn’t affordable to another.” But generally, public policy about affordable housing stems from a combination of concerns about homelessness and about working-class families not being able to buy homes in the city. As I speak to people about this issue, I am struck by how many suggest that “we need to build more housing that young workers can afford to buy,” or “look at all these high-end developments and large new homes. Regular workers can’t afford to buy those.” The simple fact is new housing near downtown Sarasota is expensive housing. Land is expensive there, and lots of people with lots of money want to live there, and they will bid up the price of housing. But many owners of those multimillion-dollar condos didn’t start out being able to afford them either. THE HOUSING LADDER

Many people seem to have forgotten about the age-old concept of the “housing ladder.” Affordable housing is created when homeowners sell to buy a newer or nicer home, opening up older and less nice homes for first-time, often younger, homeowners. Thirty years ago, no one in his right mind thought a young couple just getting started should be shopping for a new home. Everyone understood your first home would be 20 to 30 years old, hopefully well maintained. Your first newly built home would come after a few promotions. The housing ladder is still a very real part of the actual functioning housing market, yet it has almost disappeared from our public discourse on, and cultural perceptions of, affordable housing. While ignoring the housing ladder, local governments all over the United States have pursued many ruinous policies in pursuit of “affordable housing,” believing that everyone should be able to afford a brand-new, large home. Subsidizing housing has long been one of these often ruinous, albeit popular, policies. If these policies that target helping people rent homes are well designed with careful screening of recipients, are time-limited and are tied to other programs to help individuals succeed in escaping the need for assistance, such programs can be beneficial. But if they become a permanent entitlement, they neither help the housing market nor the individuals involved. Worse by far are subsidies for home purchases, especially for young people.

Young workers tend to have highturnover, lower-skilled jobs because they don’t have the experience yet or simply don’t want to secure more stable circumstances. Many like being able to move on short notice to take advantage of better job or life opportunities. When we subsidize housing for younger workers — for whom renting is often a better lifestyle match — we are communicating two wrong ideas: 1) that renting is less desirable for everyone than buying; and 2) that they should buy homes they cannot afford. SUBSIDIES DRIVE UP PRICES

Local programs to subsidize home purchases severely distort the market, creating more demand for purchases in a market where high demand is already driving prices up. In markets where some get subsidies to buy homes, the cost of homes for everyone else goes up. And that means people who were just barely able to buy a home on their own can no longer do so. Even more disastrous are government-owned housing projects. America’s cities are dotted with horrible public housing projects, many of which have been closed and bulldozed in recent decades. Managing housing is simply not a core competency of democratic local government. At the same time, alongside the larger issue of housing affordability, we need effective efforts to address shelter for the homeless, domestic violence victims and similar situations. The best models are those with communitybased and nonprofit housing units partnered with city and county social services. This capitalizes on the city’s strengths at coordinating diverse services that are aimed at promoting self-sufficiency. By partnering with these services, the city stops managing housing itself. When cities manage housing, they tend to regard them as permanent entitlements instead of helping those families become self-sufficient. Indeed, in many cities, housing projects support several generations of families. This is where nonprofit community organizations can help foster change for the families that need it most to end the cycle of government-supported housing.

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The most popular affordable housing policies these days are mandates or

Adrian Moore is a Sarasota resident and vice president at Reason Foundation. A nonprofit 501(c)(3) think tank, Reason Foundation produces nonpartisan public-policy research and publishes the critically acclaimed Reason magazine (see Reason.org). Moore will appear regularly in the Observer, addressing local, county and state issues.

restrictions on developers to sell some units at below-market rates. Typically, policies require a percentage of units to be sold at “affordable” prices in return for approval of a development, and sometimes developers are given “density bonuses” — allowed to build more units in return for selling some at below-market prices. These policies are often called “inclusionary housing.” The Sarasota City Commission has discussed inclusionary housing policies, so understanding their inevitable failings is crucial. First, this falls right into the trap of trying to make new housing into affordable housing, rather than letting the housing ladder work. But even worse, it simply does not work. A detailed empirical research project on the effects of these policies found that they reduced the supply of housing and raised average home prices — the exact opposite of the desired effect. In the Los Angeles region, inclusionary housing policies led to 770 affordable units being sold over seven years, while during the same period reducing the total number of new units built by more than 17,000 and raising the average home price by about $50,000. The reason is that developers need to cover their costs when they build homes. If they are forced to sell some below market, the remaining ones need to be priced above market. Again, many potential homebuyers who could have afforded to buy a home on their own were priced out of the market by that $50,000 increase. When some are subsidized, others — typically those just barely making it on their own — take the brunt of it. DUH: SUPPLY AND DEMAND

What really drives housing affordability is supply and demand. We have no shortage of demand in Sarasota. Supply is the problem. Like so many places, Sarasota has throngs of people who have moved here, purchased their home and now want to put a stop to any more growth. They got theirs, and now they want to shut the gate on everyone else. This stance is unfair and morally

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Requiring set numbers of ‘lower priced’ homes reduces the supply of housing and raises average home prices — the exact opposite of the desired effect.

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There are some rays of light in Sarasota’s affordable housing landscape. City commissioners have considered allowing more housing to be built in both downtown and on the city fringes.

Indeed, the recipe for affordable housing is to deregulate markets for land and allow market-driven densities and development, especially in the suburbs. It means getting rid of costly elements, such as building codes that serve arcane interests rather than measurably improving public health and safety. All those do is result in higher home prices. It also means setting impact fees sensibly. These fees are supposed to mitigate the effects of more housing, such as increased traffic, but they have become a way for government to force builders to do their bidding. Remember, whenever developers are forced to pay more fees, that cost is eventually passed down to the homebuyer. So these impact fees should not be a bargaining chip, but a data-driven assessment of unusual impacts with fees set commensurate with addressing those impacts. Those fees should be spent only on addressing those impacts effectively. Using high fees to limit growth or waiving or reducing fees to incentivize certain developments only distorts the market and makes the affordability problem worse. There is no silver bullet. The lack of a clear definition of affordable housing means it will always be a messy policy area. But we have decades of experience showing that interfering with housing markets makes homes less affordable, while working with the markets puts homes in the reach of ever more people. That is my definition of affordable housing policies.

MAY 29, 1986 THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT BATTLES THE BULGE

The health of deputies was high on the list of priorities for the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office in 1986. In an effort to increase fitness, officials established a program for a one-year trial run. The article stated that although department officials realized it’s not easy to run, swim, bike or walk, the program suggested four phases of fitness: cardiovascular, skeletal strength, flexibility and body-fat percentage. MAY 31, 1990 SCIENTISTS SEEK TO IRON OUT GLOBAL WARMING

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HOMESOFSARASOTA.com Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate.

Meet Your Local Realtors... We are Sarasota Area Real Estate professionals, ready to help you. If you are contemplating selling your present home, or considering buying a new home ...Call one of us today! Iva Fadley Dane PA,TRC Cell: 941.350.8001 Office: 941.955.1500

“Service With Excellence”

“Your Best Bet for Real Estate Success”

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Shirley Dabringhaus,Broker Selling Sarasota Since 1988 shirleydab@comcast.net

Helene Hyland

Jane Rees CIPS,RSPS,TRC,SFR,AHWD

941.349.4411(Office) 941.685.2274 (Cell)

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941.586.3970

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5218 Station Way, Sarasota 34233

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941.544.6103

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...Selling Sarasota’s Beautiful Properties

Rosalie Phillips 941.544.4430

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638 Siesta Drive, Siesta Key

Gated community of Tuscana, 2702 sq. ft. 4 Beds, 3 Baths, Den/Study, 3 car garage, paver drive Mediterranean style plus artful tropical gardenscapes Master patio, loggia, alfresco dining under pergola Living & dining room, family room & eat-in-kitchen Gas range, stainless appliances, granite counters $599,000 MLS A4120122

On a deep water channel, no bridges to the ICW  New 44’ Trex dock with new 14,000 lb. boat lift  Meticulously updated Rutenberg home  New appliances, new a/c, new brick paved drive  4 BR + office, 3.5 BA, 3 car garage, 3384 sq. ft.  Salt water pool & spa with Southern Exposure $1,995,000 MLS# A4114636

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LIDO HARBOUR TOWER Very Desirable Lido Beach Condo 1770 Benjamin Franklin • Sarasota

Brand New Listing! Beach Front ....Move in Now! Unit #503

 Two Bedrooms,Two Baths  Full Gulf Views  1,250+ Sq. Ft.  Turnkey Furnished MLS#A4123284 Offered at $515,000

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308 Calle Miramar #S2

This fabulous 5 bedroom penthouse has it all! Close proximity to Siesta Village and beach in a gated community. Investor Alert! Possible income of over 100K per year. 2 car garage, elevator, roof top deck. Not to miss! Listed at $1,925,000

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1800 Main Street, Sarasota, Florida 34236

A Florida Paradise... 6326 Midnight Pass Road #304

Great rental potential in this 2 bedroom 2 bath condo with gulf views! Turn key furnished. Listed at $495,000

Selling Luxury and Waterfront Properties since 1996!

Karen Chandler 941.544.4919 941.349.3444

Beautiful 2 story home nestled on a spacious piece of property with just over 2 acres. The kitchen features granite countertops, built in oven and microwave , stove top, and granite island. Mother-in-law suite and master suite have full baths. Marble floors throughout. The fireplace room is tiled and French doors lead to a screened lanai. 3 more bedrooms and 2 baths are upstairs, with crown molding throughout and lots of closet space. Close to University Towne Center Mall. Shopping, theatre, airport, restaurants nearby.

Bring your horses. Move in ready. Owner Motivated MLS#A3997031 Offered at $499,500

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Mary Jo Pribe, Realtor

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Atchley International Realty

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373 FRANKLIN 1425BENJAMIN Westway Road, Sarasota DR., SARASOTA

Impeccably maintained by its original owner, this beautifully Discover an exclusive waterfront lifestyle, beautifully poised on Siesta appointed three-bedroom home offersinan easygoing lifestyle Key within the only gated Gulf front community Sarasota. This oversized inlot the premier of The Built in 2002, the rests betweencommunity the Gulf of Mexico and Hammocks. tranquil Heron Lagoon residence a scenic lake, creating a peaceful with 89 feetbacks of wateronto frontage. The Sanderling Club residents enjoy setting. The approximately 2,598cabanas sq. ft.hugging of living offers the acomplete deeded beach access, private thearea shores of the Gulf, 15 slip bayside marina, three to tennis courts and a vibrant social calendar. package when it comes both everyday living and entertaining.

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Lido Key provides the sumptuous tropical setting for this Positioned on Westway Drive, arguably the most prestigious address in exquisite, new flawlessly designed Sarasota, this brand expansive level residence, grassed lot features an impressive 96 feet by luxury waterfront builder, Modus Custom Inspired by the of water frontage, with sweeping views over theResidences. Gulf of Mexico and New relaxed opulence of coastal each Pass. In addition to the new seawall, a contemporary boat dock is already style, permitted and of the can be customized to positioned meet your watercraft needs, while private deeded three levels are to capture spectacular Gulf views beachstretch access invites to relax theeye pristine that for you as far ason the cansands see.of Lido Beach.

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WEST OF Trail. One level, near Selby with Community Boat Dock. 3BR/3BA, pool. Potential Mother-in-Law. $1,175,000. *Up to $11,000 Buyer Rebate. Call Brooke O’Malley, CLUB REALTY 941-726-2677.

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals SIESTA KEY Condo: 1BR, sleeps 4, ground floor, patio. Walk to beach, shopping, restaurants. Pool, laundry. Two week minimum. May through mid-December. $500/wk or $1500/mo. Also available from April 16, 2016. No pets. Steve 586-883-3392.

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Disposal Special

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• Pet Sitting 172201

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GOLDEN GATE POINT SARASOTA AQUA offers eight beautifully appointed full-floor residences directly on Sarasota Bay ranging from 3,400 to 5,700 square feet, each with a private two-car garage and individual boat slip. AQUA redefines elegance, prestige and gracious living. FROM $3,750,000

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$3,395,000

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$2,295,000

LONGBOAT KEY

$900,000

GRAND BAY – LONGBOAT KEY

$699,000

Inspiring, custom, modern home resting along Sarasota Bay and surrounded by lush, tropical foliage.

Direct Bayfront lot in Longboat’s Village. Build your home and dock on this quiet street.

Open and bright two-bedroom with den on the 6th floor. Beach and Bay views. Two-car garage. Many upgrades.

Sweeping views of Sarasota Bay and beyond! Wonderfully finished and furnished two-bedroom unit at Grand Bay with two parking spaces.

Grande Riviera 8th floor penthouse, custom-designed to take full advantage of the spectacular sights. 5,600 sq. ft. of exquisite taste.

$1,049,000

Fresh and nearly new sunny corner condominium home with fantastic views of the Gulf and beach!

BEACHPLACE – LONGBOAT KEY

$599,000

Largest two-bedroom unit with sunny southern exposure, recent updating and views of the Gulf, pool and community lake.

The Plaza at Five Points | 50 Central Avenue | Suite 110 | Sarasota, FL 34236 | 941.308.6554 Cheryl.Loeffler@sothebysrealty.com | CherylLoeffler.com Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate.

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