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YOUR TOWN JIM LARSON RECEIVES HIS ‘NEW BABY’

Voters will decide in November whether they want to pay for their share of a $23.4 million project to bury utilities on Gulf of Mexico Drive.

KURT SCHULTHEIS SENIOR EDITOR

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In November, the town’s electorate will vote on a $23.4 million project to bury utilities on Gulf of Mexico Drive. If voters approve it, a second referendum will follow in March for an $18.8 million project to bury utilities Keywide — but only those property owners who don’t currently have underground utilities will cast a ballot.

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May 20 was a big day in the Larson household.

Jim Larson received what he told fellow Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key members the next day was his “new baby,” which arrived on a tractor trailer from Kansas City.

That baby is a 2013 60th anniversary Corvette. It’s the only Corvette convertible made that year with the 427 race car engine put in the Z06 convertible; only 200 anniversary editions were manufactured.

Larson flew to Kansas City, Mo., his hometown, a month ago with the help of a friend and got the winning bid on the car with the help of a friend.

Asked if his wife, Commissioner Lynn Larson, has gotten to drive the six-speed stick shift yet, Jim Larson said: “She knows how to drive a manual, but I’m not letting go of the keys just yet.”

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Owner seeks new leases in life of plaza How does $0 rent sound for three years? The rent is still too darn high for prospective Whitney Beach tenants.

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SUMMER STAGE Students learn more than opera at the Sarasota Opera’s youth summer camp.

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How difficult is it to attract tenants to Whitney Beach Plaza?

So tough that shopping center owner Ryan Snyder can’t give space away on a temporary basis.

He has offered tenants three years’ rent for free if they lease the former 11,000-square-foot space that was once the home of The Market.

“If I could just get someone to get in there and pay utilities and get started by offering free rent, it would help the plaza and other tenants,” Snyder said. “We’ve had interest but no takers.”

Snyder said drug stores such as Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy aren’t interested, and a couple of hardware stores also passed on the offer after they were initially enticed by free rent.

“They all say it’s a great deal, but it will cost them too much

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Mitchell Epstein says he’s learned as much as the young men he mentors at the Y Achievers program.

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SENIOR EDITOR

All roads to a successful Longboat Key Club project begin at Longboat Club Road.

Just ask Robert Goodman, president of Longboat Key Association Inc., a seven-member board that controls Longboat Club Road.

Goodman, 83, opposed a past Islandside project that the Key Club’s former owners, Loeb Partners Realty, submitted to the town

in April 2008 to build a new hotel with 221 hotel rooms and 261 residences at Islandside.

Fast forward seven years, and Goodman fully supports Ocean Properties’ plans for a $100 million project that includes a new 259-unit hotel with expanded meeting space that’s 10 to 12 stories and approximately 93 condominium/villa units. He said his association will most likely sign a memorandum of understanding in support of the project and the road relocation by year’s end.

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Robert Goodman, president of Longboat Key Association Inc., supports a Longboat Key Club Islandside project that relocates Longboat Club Road and fixes safety issues to the north.

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Goodman and Islandside Property Owners Coalition President Bob White previously opposed the past Loeb project that called for a meeting center on the north side of the road and a walkway across the road to funnel visitors from the meeting space to a hotel. Loeb also had no intention of shifting Longboat Club Road to the north to alleviate traffic concerns near the new development.

Goodman is now reviewing a list of conditions that he says Ocean Properties must meet to improve and relocate the road.

There’s one condition in particular that Goodman wants both Ocean Properties and the Florida Department of Transportation to address.

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“We have in excess of 1,000 owners here that must be able to go out to the town, and the north exit entrance is the best way to go, and it’s not safe during the season,” Goodman said. “Before we will agree to move the road, the town, Ocean Properties and FDOT have to come to an agreement that it’s going to be a workable solution for the future.”

He hopes a traffic light will be considered for the intersection.

It’s an area also slated for an FDOT crosswalk just north of Longboat Club Road where Country Club Shores beachgoers cross to access their beach easement.

At the south end entrance, Goodman said the road needs shifted to the north with wider lanes to accommodate larger service trucks, a relocated guardhouse and bicycle lanes. A roundabout or traffic light modifications to that entrance, Goodman said, are up to FDOT. “Our main goal is the safety of the road,” he said.

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE Kurt Schultheis

A debate over whether to bury what many perceive as unsightly power poles and wires on the island has flickered on and off for more than 20 years.

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At its Monday night regular meeting, the commission gave town staff direction in a 6-0 vote to draft ordinances for two separate referenda questions that residents will vote on in separate elections. Commissioner Pat Zunz was absent for the vote that occurred just before 11 p.m.

Commissioners chose a pair of non-ad valorem funding options to fund the project from five sets of choices before them.

The town had the option of funding the projects through ad valorem (uniform millage rate funding through property taxes like beach millage districts) or non-ad valorem assessments (property assessments that are collected through tax bills).

Non-ad valorem assessments are based on the benefit each property receives from a project.

A consultant studied each of the 10,038 properties within the town’s borders over the last three months to determine how much each property owner would pay for the debt over both 20 and 30 years. Calculations factored in improvements to property safety, reliability and aesthetics. The size of each property was also a factor.

Adjustments were made to determine fair amounts for condo and multifamily units on the island.

For example, a $564,000 home on Ranger Lane that has overhead wires would pay $208.22 annually over 30 years for the Gulf of Mexico project and $589.59 annually for 30 years to pay for the project that would bury its overhead wires (see sidebar).

WHAT WILL IT COST ME ANNUALLY OVER 30 YEARS? SINGLE-FAMILY HOME EXAMPLES Property Home value GMD project Rest of the island project 561 Ranger Lane (with overhead wires) $564,000 $208.22 $589.59 3360 Bayou Gate (underground) $510,000 $127.88 n/a 605 Kingfisher(with overhead wires) 5821 GMD (underground)

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But owners of a $510,000 home in Bayou Gate in Bay Isles that has buried wires would pay $127.88 annually over 30 years to pay for the Gulf of Mexico Drive project and nothing for the other project because their neighborhood’s utilities are already underground.

Town Manager Dave Bullock said staff will prepare an ordinance for the commission for first reading at a special meeting after its June 15 regular workshop.

Second reading could occur at the July 6 regular meeting, before the commission’s summer hiatus.

The November vote is contingent on town staff meeting tight advertisement notice requirements.

Owners of properties with overhead wires will only see a second ballot question in March if voters approve the first referendum. The March vote could feature a mail-only ballot like the one for the recent Islandside density referendum.

Commissioner Irwin Pastor praised town staff’s work.

“I congratulate the town manager and staff for having all these

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Jupiter Inlet Colony, in Palm Beach County, undergrounded its utilities three years ago. “Leading up to the project, transformers were blowing constantly from the saltwater air causing corrosion,” said Administrator Samuel Pruitt. “For the last two years, we’ve had zero outage problems.”

numbers so we could make a decision tonight,” Pastor said. “They did one heck of a job, and it made our job easy to understand.”

The debate over whether to bury what many say are ugly power poles and wires on a highend barrier island community has flickered on and off for 20 years.

Florida Power & Light Co. sparked the most recent discussion in April 2014, when it announced it was prepared to spend millions to install wider 41-foot-high poles (current poles are 39 feet) along the island’s thoroughfare that could withstand hurricane-force winds.

Commissioners voted against sending the undergrounding issues to voters last November, after disagreement over whether the town should proceed with a Gulf of Mexico Drive-only project or bury utilities Keywide.

For Vice Mayor Terry Gans, the decision addresses one of his key concerns.

“One of my hang-ups was the fairness of part of the island subsidizing those that currently don’t (have underground wires), and this method addresses that concern,” Gans said.

Country Club Shores resident Bob Gault, an advocate for burying the town’s utilities for years, was pleased with Monday’s vote.

“This is a great night for the future of Longboat Key,” Gault said. “Knowing this community and the neighbors that live here and want this place to stay a premier place to live, I think it will pass. I really do.”

If both items are approved, a mix of property owners will be responsible for paying back approximately $42.2 million over 30 years through two separate bonds issued for both projects, which include a 20% contingency cost that could mark up the total cost of the bonds closer to $46 million combined.

“Knowing this community and the neighbors that live here and want this place to stay a premier place to live, I think it will pass.

I really do.”

— Country Club Shores resident Bob Gault

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The Florida Department of Health surprised the Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department with a fire drill last week — and the department got high marks in the test.

Fire Rescue Chief Paul Dezzi informed Town Manager Dave Bullock in a May 27 email that an inspector from the health department arrived unannounced at the station to inspect administrative policies, cleanliness, medication storage, training records and emergency medical equipment.

“I am proud to announce that we rated excellent after the completion of the inspection,” Dezzi wrote in his email to Bullock.

Bullock forwarded the news to the Longboat Key Town Commission in an email, explaining that the health department arrives unannounced every two years to inspect all aspects of the town’s fire department equipment, records and policies.

Mayers works to protect manatees Lands End resident Tom Mayers informed Town Manager Dave Bullock in a May 28 email that it took him a year to clear bureaucratic hurdles to determine whether he could post “Manatee Area” signs in the north area of Longboat Pass warning boaters to use caution.

After the town told him he couldn’t post signs a year ago without the state’s permission, he inquired with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Last month, the agency told him the signs are allowed and are controlled by the town’s jurisdiction.

Mayers has acquired signs from Save the Manatees and will now post them on and near docks at the north end.

“You may want to look into posting signs on some of the markers around the north and south entrances of the island’s passes in order to warn boaters of the resident manatees around Longboat Key,” Mayers wrote in his email.

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Keywide property values rise by 4.79% The increase will result in revenue that’s $21,000 lower than estimates.

KURT SCHULTHEIS SENIOR EDITOR

Longboat Key property values are rising for the third consecutive year.

Town Budget Analyst Sandi Henley reported Monday that the property appraiser’s offices in Manatee and Sarasota counties estimate a combined 4.79% increase in property values Keywide.

That’s slightly less than the 5% increase town staff originally estimated. On Monday, staff adjusted the preliminary budget it released to the Longboat Key Town Commission to reflect a $21,000 tax revenue decrease.

The town’s total preliminary taxable value for the next fiscal year is estimated at $5.19 billion.

Last year’s townwide taxable value was approximately $4.96 billion.

Both counties will reveal official assessed taxable values July 1.

Based on the town’s current millage rate of 2.1763 mills that Town Manager Dave Bullock intends to hold flat in fiscal year

2015-16, the tax roll increase would result in a $498,950 increase.

Bullock reported to commissioners in a May 29 memo that the preliminary taxable values now reflect a $483,067 deficit town staff is working to offset before June 15 and June 29 budget workshops. The preliminary operating and capital budget of $16,412,508 represents a $1,353,792, or 9% increase, in spending from the previous year’s budget of $15,058,716.

Bullock points to a capital outlay increase of $520,789 and firefighter/paramedic retirement payouts/new hire overlap in the department of $200,0526 as the biggest expenditures exceeding revenues.

Bullock’s recommended budget will be released in August and the commission will adopt the budget on second reading in September.

Bullock points out that two items are nonrecurring one-time expenditures: retiree payouts and a $153,789 expense to transition 911 dispatch costs associated with the transition to Sarasota County.

Based on the latest projections, the town will end its current fiscal year Sept. 30 with a surplus of $659,874.

PROPERTY VALUES ON THE RISE Tax Year Sarasota 2015 (Estimated) $3,722,097,194 2014 $3,579,862,920 Increase 3.97%

Manatee Combined $1,471,963,429 $5,194,060,623 $1,376,559,392 $4,956,422,312 6.93% 4.79%

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City eyes paid parking to fund Circle garage Progress on a St. Armands parking garage continues as stakeholders offer their support for various funding mechanisms — including parking meters.

To get a parking garage on St. Armands Circle, leaders in the area are willing to pay up.

At a Sarasota City Commission meeting Monday, staff outlined two mechanisms it believes could help fund a garage project on North Adams Drive, both of which drew support from St. Armands stakeholders.

Staff is targeting the installation of paid parking and the creation of a special assessment district to pay for the garage, which comes with a preliminary $11.5 million cost estimate.

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City Parking Manager Mark Lyons said staff will gather more information during the summer to help crystalize the logistics of a garage project. Although details are still preliminary, he suggested paid parking could be implemented both on the streets and in the garage, if it were OK’d.

“We’re still trying to put together some good analysis and really understand it,” Lyons said.

Marty Rappaport, a board member of the St. Armands Business Improvement District, said property owners would be amenable to the special tax on property in the area, similar to the one approved in 1994 to install a surface parking lot on Fillmore Drive.

Finance Director John Lege said the statutory process to create a special assessment district would likely begin in January 2016.

Due to what Circle leaders perceive as the inevitability of paid parking, they were willing to accept that, too, to get the garage in place before the end of 2017.

“The St. Armands stakeholders are in agreement that paid parking is not a question of if, but when,” Rappaport said. “This project is of such importance that the St. Armands stakeholders have agreed to support paid parking on St. Armands, to be imple-

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As the city examines the logistics of constructing a parking garage at what is currently a surface lot, signs advertising free parking may soon become a thing of the past.

mented upon the completion of this proposed capital improvement project.”

The unity of Circle landowners, merchants and residents is what convinced the commission the project was worth pursuing in April. This week, the groups once again presented a united message.

“Each group has agreed to make sacrifices to accomplish what is one of — if not the most — important goals for the Circle,” said Diana Corrigan, executive director of the St. Armands Circle Association.

Although the St. Armands Residents Association has offered its support for the project, not everyone in the area is fully in favor.

Resident Earl Scott worried paid parking could lead to more cars parked on residential streets.

“We’re going to catch all the people who don’t want to pay,”

Scott said. “It’ll be a number of them.”

Scott pitched no-parking regulations or a park-by-permit system on residential streets in the area, a measure Lyons said staff would investigate. Staff will also get more information on another measure aimed at appeasing residents: placing utilities along the entryway to St. Armands underground. Lyons said preliminary cost estimates for that aspect are about $750,000.

As more specifics surrounding the garage project — and associated improvements in the area — continue to emerge, Lyons said it appeared the city, businesses and residents were largely in agreement.

“There seems to be a coalescing of ideas here to make it work,” Lyons said. “We’re excited to keep working.”

“The St. Armands stakeholders are in agreement that paid parking is not a question of if, but when.”

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Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s president and says an aquarium relocation to the mainland, even if it’s not a waterfront spot, is still a top priority.

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Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium CEO and President Michael Crosby is still determined to find a space for a new aquarium in Sarasota, even if it’s not on the water.

Crosby told the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key at its May 28 breakfast meeting that moving the aquarium to the mainland is still a top priority.

“Moving the aquarium off a barrier island is important for a number of reasons, most importantly for accessibility to visitors,” Crosby said. “We need to establish a 21st century facility that has access to a much broader segment of the state.”

In September 2014, Crosby began a campaign to secure bayfront space for a new aquarium on land near the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Crosby wanted an endorsement for its plan from the Sarasota City Commission to begin securing funding and design work for a new site.

But the city commission dashed Mote’s plans in a 3-2 vote in October 2014, when it declined Mote’s vision for growth in that location.

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Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium CEO and President Michael Crosby told Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key members May 28 that Mote’s City Island campus “is bursting at the seams” and plans for a relocated aquarium site are still underway.

Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Secretary John Wild asked Crosby if he expects to ask the commission for another vote of confidence for a new aquarium, noting the vote could go the other way now that a new commission is in place after a recent election.

“Mote stays out of politics,” Crosby said. “But I can tell you that we continue to look at sites, and I discuss potential sites for Mote in Sarasota with property owners on a regular basis.”

Asked if a new aquarium site has to be located on the bayfront, Crosby said it does not.

“It doesn’t have to be waterfront for an aquarium attraction,” Crosby said.

The City Island site, Crosby said, would remain as Mote’s spot for research.

“It’s the best site I’ve ever seen for a research center,” Crosby said.

Crosby also outlined a plan for a comprehensive campaign for the future of Mote called Oceans of Opportunity that is working to raise $50 million.

The money will be used to boost its number of doctorate scientists from 35 to 45 and expand Mote’s local and global impact.

The only capital project for the campaign is to build a new research facility in the Florida Keys. The new aquarium is not a part of that campaign.

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The Sarasota County Tourist Development Council approved a $95,000 grant for Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium May 21 that was labeled “Otters and Watershed Conservation.”

Mote spokeswoman Kaitlyn Fusco told the Longboat Observer Mote has been “interested in otters as a possible exhibit animal for years.”

“Recently we’ve been looking at the possibility more closely and looking to obtain funding sources that would allow us to host otters for a future limited-time exhibit,” Fusco said. “However, there is no otter exhibit design developed at this point.”

Asked about the possibility of a future otter exhibit May 25, Mote CEO and President Michael Crosby said, “All I can say is there’s some exciting new exhibits coming to Mote that our members and visitors are going to love.”

Mote’s “Oh Baby! Life Cycles of the Seas” limitedtime exhibit featuring the youngest marine life ends Sept. 27, and Mote has not announced plans for its next rotating exhibit.

Mote’s dolphin lagoon facility has also been empty since February, when Mote announced Moonshine, a dolphin that lived at the facility since 2003, died after a brief illness. Mote has no plans to bring another dolphin to the facility because it’s used only for rehabilitation efforts.

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Whitney Beach: Is the price right?

Kurt Schultheis

Despite vacancy issues, Whitney Beach Plaza is preparing for Giacamo’s Lounge’s opening in the former Tiny’s location in a few weeks. Plaza owner Ryan Snyder’s father operates Longboat Key Liquors, and his wife is opening a beach apparel shop to the right of the liquor store called Rip Current next month.

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to get a store operational, and the traffic won’t generate their investment even with free rent,” he said.

Snyder said he’s thought of turning the market space, which has minimal walls, into a Key storage facility or a wedding/conference center space.

“It’s a huge space,” Snyder said.

“We just don’t know what to do with it.”

Although Snyder’s free rent offer only applies to the anchor space, he continues to struggle to fill vacant spaces elsewhere in the plaza.

After four years and more than $2 million in renovations, Snyder, a Bradenton-based real estate and bank attorney, sent an email

to District 5 Longboat Key Commissioner Pat Zunz May 28, seeking help and input for the plaza’s future.

“Although I’ve had some success in attracting new tenants, there remains a lot of vacancy at the plaza,” Snyder wrote. “Those spaces I have been able to fill were the result of reduced rent and other concessions I made to the tenants.”

The purpose of the email, Snyder says, was to start a dialogue with the town and its citizens about the long-term future of the property.

Snyder told the Longboat Observer that “the sky is not falling,” and he has no plans to stop making payments on the debt and operating costs for the plaza.

“This isn’t a distressed circum-

stance on my part,” Snyder said.

“But I’ve invested a ton of money into this property, and four years later, we’ve had some interest from tenants but not enough to sustain the plaza.”

Snyder said his biggest worry is that the 50-year-old plaza will fall into a state of disrepair in 10 years without a plan for its future.

“I won’t ever realize my investment on this property,” Snyder said. “I’ve only put a Band-Aid on the problem.”

Snyder believes the north end can only support 10,000 of the approximately 50,000 square feet of commercial space in the plaza.

“All you can really sustain is a convenience store, a couple of shops and a restaurant or two,” Snyder said.

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tion for the plaza. He will meet with Zunz and Planning, Zoning and Building Director Alaina Ray next week to discuss future options for the plaza.

“The town recognizes something needs to be done to this area,” Snyder said. “Since the town is working to overhaul its land development codes, I thought this might be the best time to have a discussion.”

Zunz hopes the vacant bank building and gas station get developed along with Whitney Beach Plaza in a way that it becomes a northern gateway for the town that includes a new roundabout.

“It should include a future boutique hotel that makes the plaza more useful and sustainable,” Zunz said.

In June 2012, the Longboat Key Town Commission approved an overlay district for the plaza, former bank building, vacant gas station and a series of residentialzoned vacant lots that straddle Bishop’s Bayou on Gulf of Mexico Drive just north of Broadway.

Although the district allows for flexibility with a mixed-use combination of residential and tourism components, it doesn’t specify building height changes that are crucial to a future development of the north end property.

Snyder also hopes to hold a future meeting with Longbeach Village residents at the Longbeach Café in the next month or two.

“I’m open to any and all suggestions,” Snyder said.

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“It keeps the island at the forefront of all of the Gulf-front communities in Florida.” — Terry Gans

J

udging from the full house Monday night in the Longboat Key Town Commission Chambers, you easily could have concluded before the night began that the commission was about to address a controversial issue.

As it turned out, the big issue of the night — underground utility lines — wasn’t the most controversial.

But it was the biggest.

Biggest in the sense that the town commissioners’ 6-0 vote to conduct two referenda on underground utility lines is a crucial piece in the larger mosaic that is determining the economic future and the quality of life on Longboat Key for the next 30 years.

It was a courageous vote, too. Rather than fall into the political habit of asking one group of taxpayers to subsidize another, commissioners opted to ask voters to fund the project via a 30-year annual assessment rather than through an ad-valorem/property tax. Those properties that have underground utility lines now will not be asked to pay for those who do not have them.

That latter issue lurked Monday

night as a deal killer, based on feedback from a small group of residents earlier in the year. But the commissioners were forthright in their unanimous vote not to want to subsidize. (Commissioner Pat Zunz was absent for the vote.)

To be sure, there still is a long way to go. The commission vote Monday night only places on a November 2015 ballot and a March 2016 ballot two questions that will determine whether Longboat Key taxpayers are willing to pay for the installation of underground utility lines.

What’s next will be the details and thoroughly educating taxpayers — a big job and more important than Monday’s vote. You can be sure that when voters see the costs, they will take notice.

The price tags are bigger than anything Longboat Key has ever done: $42.2 million. That includes $23.4 million to lay underground lines the length of Gulf of

It took 60 years to create LBK’s codes; patience, all, on the time to fix them If you have the unfortunate occasion to confront Longboat Key’s zoning codes, building regulations, land-development codes and comprehensive plan, it doesn’t take long to become artist Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

Anyone who has ever dealt with Longboat Key zoning issues wants to do exactly that — scream bloody murder. The codes are so confusing and so exasperating, they drive you mad.

Perhaps the best way to illustrate how twisted, onerous and exasperating they are is to remember that it took the former owners of the Longboat Key Club and Resort $2 million, four years, a lawsuit and a judge’s ruling to be told the codes would not allow the Key Club to develop non-residential units on its Islandside property. And after that, it took voters a few weeks ago finally to clarify the law.

So when taxpayers and the Longboat Key Town Commission become frustrated or scoff at how long it is taking the town administration and its

consultants to rewrite the town zoning and development codes, a lot of slack should be extended. It took 60 years to create that zoning monstrosity. As the saying goes, they didn’t build or destroy Rome in a day.

What’s more, based on what we’ve heard from town officials, leading zoning experts from around the state and elsewhere, who have been consulted to help unravel and reconstruct the codes, have all said: “You all have a mess on that island.”

But there’s hope and, apparently, progress. Particularly in the sensitive areas of redevelopment and that arcane subject of non-conforming lots. Here’s why it matters to every Longboat Key residential property owner: The framers of this rewriting process may have cracked the code on how to allow the Key’s old condominium properties to be redeveloped according to modern standards (e.g. with higher ceilings or slightly larger units) and still maintain close to the same density on the island.

It’s complicated, to be sure.

Here’s the existing dilemma: In 1984, Longboat Key voters approved a cap on the town’s residential density. One of the consequences was the creation of zoning districts with restrictions on units per acre.

With that, virtually every existing condominium and hotel property on the Key became non-conforming.

Although grandfathered, they had too many units on their site. Which meant, if the condominium owners ever wanted to redevelop, they would have to reduce the number of units on the site.

Figure that one out.

Of course, one of the consequences of this zoning is it drove up the value of property. But one of the unintended consequences of that density vote was this: None of the properties would ever be redeveloped because owners would never want to give up existing units

Mexico Drive; and $18.8 million to convert all of the neighborhoods and side streets that currently do not have them.

And when taxpayers see those dollar amounts, you know what they will be asking: “How will that affect my taxes?” And, “What’s in it for me?”

You can expect the answer to the first question to be disseminated over the next five months. Town consultant Tara Hollis, a CPA and principal at Orlandobased Willdan Financial Services, compiled an extraordinary database that calculates exactly how much each property owner would pay over a 30-year period. Town officials expect to make that database available online.

The answer to the latter question — “What’s in it for me?” — is not as quantitative as the first. But Commissioner Terry Gans, who originally opposed the expense of the underground utility lines, may have summarized it best.

“This is an equitable way of doing it,” Gans said. “And it keeps the island at the forefront of all of the Gulf-front communities in Florida.”

It may not be evident to Longboaters now, but 2015 and 2016 are seminal moments for the future of the Key.

and density.

In 2008, however, thanks to former Commissioner Randy Clair’s initiatives, town voters approved a charter referendum that would allow condominiums and resorts to be rebuilt to their existing density in the event weather or some other calamity destroyed them — in spite of still not conforming to town codes.

That was progress.

But that vote still didn’t correct the fact just about every condo, apartment or resort on Longboat Key remained “non-conforming.”

According to Alaina Ray, the town’s director of planning, zoning and building, framers writing a new code are devising a method that would: • Create 16 new zoning categories (That sounds like a lot. But look at it this way: That means there will be more flexibility); • Convert all properties to “conforming” status; • Allow properties to be redeveloped with modern standards and amenities; • Provide some leeway with slightly increased density allowances to create financial incentive and relief, albeit small, for condominiums to redevelop.

To be sure, the final details will matter. Suffice it to say, rather than rag on the town administration for this process taking so long, put it in context, and put yourself in the shoes of those challenged with rewriting the code.

Think what it takes to solve this conundrum: To simplify Longboat Key’s screaming “mess” of zoning codes in a way that creates economic incentives to redevelop outdated properties and maintains what has been almost inviolable for 30 years — Longboat Key’s current densities. It’s no easy task.

There are a lot of bromides that fit this situation. Teddy Roosevelt’s: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty …” Or that of W. Edwards Deming, the father of quality manufacturing: “Do it right the first time.”

With this emerging scheme to help redevelopment, we should be patient and optimistic.

… Leading zoning experts who have been consulted to help unravel and reconstruct Longboat’s codes have all said: “You all have a mess on that island.”

“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

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There have been a lot of recent comments and opinions about the Public Tennis Center lately.

They include: • The history since the beginning; • Whether the town should subsidize the Tennis Center, and if so, how much; • Whether the Tennis Center is now a self-sustaining financial operation; • What has been, and is presently, the role of the Friends of Tennis (FOT); and • Whether the Tennis Center should be a private operation or continue as a public facility.

With respect to these issues, I offer the following facts and opinions: Initially, the town provided

exceed its operating expenses, including an annual capital reserve of $15,000; 3. The preliminary fiscal year 2016 budget reflects total revenues of $571,090,which exceeds the projected total of operating and anticipated capital expenditures of $35,000 (utilizing $15,000 from the 2015 reserve and another $20,000 capital expense in 2016).

4. The separate Tennis Center fund and budgeting permits the Tennis Center to carry forward and/or balance operating costs pluses and minuses; and if necessary, by also utilizing dollars from budgeted annual reserves in the $15,000 to $20,000 range.

In sum, the operations of the Tennis Center are financially self-supporting, including anticipated capital needs, now and for the foreseeable future, without any town subsidies.

I understand this is not the

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Like I previously indicated FOT, historically, has significantly funded many Tennis Center projects as needed and requested from time to time.

At the present and in the near future, it appears to me that any Tennis Center funding by the FOT should be completely discretionary as desired by the FOT, to enhance Tennis Center activities over and above its anticipated operating and capital needs.

In summary, as I see it, for the present and currently anticipated future of the Tennis Center, the town and Longboat Key community may well be experiencing the best of both worlds, in our unique LBK community.

Simply put, we have a wonderful, premier public tennis facility, beloved and currently com-

pletely financially supported by its members and guests, including both operating, maintenance and anticipated capital needs, with perhaps additional amenities as desired by the FOT — to quote the recent editorial “without a nickel of taxpayer money.”

Having said all that, because most agree that the Tennis Center is one of Longboat Key’s most important and key amenities that we all benefit from, much like the beach and public parks, if financial circumstances were to materially change, I personally would deem it appropriate and would favorably consider a reasonable level of town funding to support the Tennis Center, much like other town facilities.

Jack Daly is the District 2 Longboat Key town commissioner.

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I personally would deem it appropriate and would favorably consider a reasonable level of town funding to support the Tennis Center, much like other own facilities.

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Tennis Center deserves town investment the site and has funded the capital building costs, (with substantial help from FOT), with the objective, as I understand it, that the operations and maintenance expenses of the Tennis Center be funded by revenues from tennis members, guests and visitors.

All the physical facilities at the Tennis Center are owned by the town, and like other townowned facilities, (such as Joan Durante and Bayfront parks), as indicated from time to time by the town manager, by way of example, in the event of damage from a sink hole or other similar occurrences, such would be addressed and remediated by the town.

The Tennis Center’s current (fiscal year 2015) finances and its preliminary 2016 budget were reviewed at last week’s Town Commission public workshop.

Here are some facts: 1. Starting this year, the town established a standalone fund and a separate budget for all the revenues and anticipated expenses of the Tennis Center.

2. For fiscal year 2015, the Tennis Center’s current projection is that its revenues will

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F

or Lou Newman, retirement from his career as a veterinarian sparked a second career as a wildlife photographer. A Plymouth Harbor resident, Newman conducts three to five local shoots a week and takes six trips a year to photograph wildlife around the world.

His latest exhibit, “Feathers: From Sarasota Bay to the Antarctic” is on display through Oct. 3, at Plymouth Harbor.

What was your life like before photography?

I went to vet school at Cornell.

I knew if I didn’t go west right after school, I never would. I spent one year in Wyoming and moved to Glasgow, Mont. At the time, there were only 55 vets in the whole state. My primary interests were pregnant cows, newborn calves and viral diseases that affect them.

My wife developed cancer, and at that point, Michigan State University had been recruiting me for years. I became the director of veterinarian extension and a teacher in the large animal clinic and earned my Ph.D. I then went to the University of Kentucky, where I was director of the veterinary diagnostics lab.

There, I performed autopsies on animals and diagnosed them with illnesses. One time, I had 30 horses in a single day.

From there, I went to the University of Georgia, where I was the director of the veterinary diagnostics program. I worked on animals as diverse as crickets, alligators and catfish but mainly farm animals. I retired in 2000 and moved down here.

How did you make the jump from being a veterinarian to a photographer?

I started as a teenager with a darkroom in my basement.

Taking pictures was always part of my daily activities. When I went into the academic arena, I took pictures for research and to illustrate what I taught. Starting in 1990, I worked toward a career to become a wildlife photographer in my retirement.

Where have you traveled for photography?

My travels have carried me to 70 countries and all seven continents. I wound up in China three times. The Arctic is a favorite of mine. I’ve been to Alaska seven or eight times, and I’ve been to the Siberian Arctic.

Where is your favorite place to travel?

Africa is special. The birds and the animals of Africa are extraordinary. South America is amazing, too, especially the birds. I always wanted to go to Australia and New Zealand, and I’ve finally been there. It’s a good thing I never went there when I was young. I never would have come back.

What are your future plans?

I’m leaving for Palouse, Wash., this week. It’s my second crack at landscape photography. I did it one time in Iceland and ended up taking more photographs of birds. I tend to be going back to places now. I’m going back to the

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Galapagos Islands this summer and then Peru.

What are your favorite animals to photograph?

The cow has always been my first love. My favorite animal, though, has to be the bear — first polar bears, then the Alaskan brown bear. It’s exhilarating when brown bears pass so close to you their hair brushes your leg. It’s exciting to see a polar bear on an ice flow or catching a seal.

How did you become interested in bird photography?

When I retired, I really thought I’d be primarily photographing four-legged animals, but now bird photography is what I do. In

March, April and May, Florida is the best place in the world to photograph birds. They’re used to tourists. Some birds I can get 50 feet from, whereas the same kind of bird you can’t get within half a mile of somewhere else.

It’s unique. I love the osprey and the brown pelican. The osprey is a noble bird.

How many pictures do you take during an average shoot?

I take about 700 to 1,500 each shoot. On a trip, I’ll take about 30,000 photos, and I’ll bring home 7,000 of them. From that, I’ll print anywhere from seven or eight to 15. I took 600 pictures this morning. From that, I probably have one or two shots I’ll

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What’s your most memorable photography experience?

On an African safari, I was up front, and a cheetah jumped on the hood of the car and looked me in the eye. In Tanzania, a huge bull elephant started charging our vehicle. The women near me were screaming, the driver was trying to back away as quickly as possible, and I was just clicking my camera as fast as I could.

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ISLAND HOME CHECK 3:15 p.m. — 7100 block of La Lenaire Drive Security Check: The owner of a home on Jewfish Key requested a security check because she was worried about weekend holiday boat traffic coming onshore near her home. The home was fine, but police discovered the front door was unlocked.

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TURTLE TROUBLE 10:56 p.m. — 1000 block of Longboat Club Road Code Enforcement: A man reported a bright white light coming from a Gulf-front apartment that he said could disorient sea turtles.

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GIVE A MANATEE ITS SPACE 12:50 p.m. — 4600 block of GMD Animal: Police responded to a report of three people harassing a manatee in the Gulf. The group told police they were just following the manatee closely.

Police advised them to keep their distance and give the manatee its space.

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MAN OVERBOARD 4:45 a.m. — Off the Key Assist Other Agency: A man said he was pushed off a boat somewhere near Coquina Beach on Anna Maria Island.

Police took him to Bradenton Beach to file a report, then took him to his mother’s home on the Key.

WORLD OCEANS DAY Takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway.

With the theme “Oceans of Inspiration,” the family-friendly festival will include games and crafts focused on green practices, marine science and conservation. Cost is free with regular paid admission. Call 388-4441.

SATURDAY, JUNE 13 AND SUNDAY, JUNE 14

DON’T MISS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS SEMINAR What: Residents and business owners can learn about how to better prepare for a natural disaster on the Key. The keynote speaker is Bryan Koons, Florida emergency management director. Other speakers include Julius Halas, director of the State Fire Marshal’s Office and former Longboat Key Fire Rescue Chief, and Bob Harrigan, chief meteorologist at ABC-7. Hors d’ouevres, wine and beer will be served. RSVP is required. Call 383-2466. Free.

When: 3 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 8 Where: Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road

ST. ARMANDS CRAFT FESTIVAL Takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on St. Armands Circle.

More than 175 artisans will sell their crafts during the 14th annual festival. Call 813-9620388.

TUESDAY, JUNE 23

LONGBOAT KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WINE & CHEESE EVENT Takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, 5390 Gulf of Mexico Drive. All community members are invited to enjoy wine and cheese while learning about the chamber and what it offers to residents and businesses. Call 383-2466.

RECURRING EVENTS TUESDAYS

‘AM I HUNGRY?’ WORKSHOP Takes place from noon to 1 p.m.

Tuesdays through July 21, at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road. The eight-week workshop will teach participants to maintain a healthy lifestyle without dieting. Call 316-1999.

WEDNESDAYS

ROTARY CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY Meets at 5:15 p.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Cost is $8.

Contact Sydelle Pittas at sydellelaw@aol.com.

THURSDAYS

KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY Meets at 7:30 a.m. at the Longboat Key Club’s Tavern & Whiskey Bar. Cost is $10 and includes a breakfast buffet. Call Donna at 388-2847.

SHIFTING SANDS SUPPORT GROUP Takes place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ruth Cushing Room at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. This group is open to any adult going through a difficult transition.

Call 383-6491.

FRIDAYS

BEGINNERS BRIDGE OR REFRESHER COURSE Takes place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Aging in Paradise Resource Center on the second floor of Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Larry Auerbach, emerald life master with 8,000 master points, teaches classes. Cost is $5 per class. Call 383-6493 or email cathyc@aginginparadise. org.

SATURDAYS

TURTLE WALKS Take place at 6:45 a.m. Saturdays in June and July at the public beach access at 4795 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Learn about sea turtles while scouting the beach for nests with trained Mote volunteers. Free. Call 3884441.

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TWO LONGBOAT STUDENTS GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL

Miller makes patriotic push for Freedom Fest Cannons Marina has $500 for the most patriotic business float at this year’s Fourth of July parade.

KRISTEN BROCKETT Parents: Al and Kathy Brockett High school: St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Extracurricular activities, community service and hobbies: Varsity swimming (four years); varsity cheerleading for basketball (senior year); performed 100 hours of community service at the Humane Society of Manatee County; National Honor Society; Feeding America Club; French Club; Future Business Leaders of America Club.

College plans: University of Maryland Major: Political science or pre-law Dream job: Secretary of state Proudest accomplishment: Overcoming shoulder injuries and making state competition in two events for swimming.

CALEB PROFFITT Parents: Scott and Shana Proffitt High School: Pine View School Extracurricular Activities, community service and hobbies: Programming, robots (FRC Team 3627), Moody’s Mega Math Challenge (2015 honorable mention — one of the top 53 papers out of 1,128 nationally), reading, piano, computer science, discrete math, music (listening, not writing), video games (playing, making, modding, etc.), reading high fantasy novels College plans: Vanderbilt University Major: Computer science Dream job: Running a software company Proudest accomplishment: Taking the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 12 and performing well enough to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). Approximately 5% of students who take the AMC 12 qualify for the AIME, and Proffitt was the only student at his school to qualify.

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Cannons Marina owner David Miller is seeking a wave of support for this year’s Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Fourth of July Freedom Fest.

Cannons will offer a $500 prize to the most patriotic business float.

“Business participation has slowed down over the years, and I hope that doesn’t continue,” Miller said. “I know it’s on the Fourth of July, it’s first thing in the morning, and it’s generally very, very hot, but people enjoy it, kids enjoy it, and even dogs enjoy it.”

Freedom Fest has been described as the world’s shortest parade — and also its most charming.

Its route is only a quartermile, but it is a Key tradition that residents and visitors treasure.

“It’s important to Longboaters because it’s just a good, old-fashioned Fourth of July,” Chamber President Gail Loefgren said. “It’s a great tradition.”

The parade will feature business floats, fire trucks, police cars and town commissioners who will ride in convertibles.

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Charlie dressed up for last year’s parade.

Participants are also welcome to walk in the parade.

For Cannons to award the $500 prize, at least 10 businesses must participate, and their floats must be on wheels.

Businesses and individuals can also sponsor a flag lining Bay Isles Road and be a part of the Avenue of Flags for $50.

In addition to the parade, there will be games for kids, prizes, a butterfly release, a dog costume contest and a Belgian waffle breakfast from Blue Dolphin Café.

Parade lineup begins 8:30 a.m.; parade begins at 9 a.m.

July 4, on Bay Isles Road. Games follow at Bicentennial Park, 2730 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

MAY THE BEST DOG WIN For the second year, the Longboat Key Rotary Club will host a “Hot Diggity Dog” parade and contest during Freedom Fest.

Prizes will go to the most patriotic dog, most creative dog costume and best owner and dog combination.

“Last year was the first year we did it, and Rotary wasn’t officially Rotary last year,” event organizer Carol Erker said. “We thought it was a nice community event. Last year, we planted the seeds, and this year, we hope to have more participants.”

Twenty-five dogs participated in the contest last year, and Erker said she hopes to have close to 100 this year.

The Rotary Club is also taking donations for amenities at the off-leash dog park planned for Bayfront Park.

“It should be a lot of fun,” Erker said. “We hope people come out and sport their best patriotic costumes.”

Advance registration is encouraged. Email thompsonlaw@msn.com or call 847-274-8741.

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All Angels celebrates 10 years with Danner

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ll Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church celebrated the Rev. David Danner’s 10 years at the church May 24.

Parishioners enjoyed a brunch, and many donated money to Danner’s seminary scholarship fund.

— PAT ANDERSON

Photos by Pat Anderson

Above: The Rev. David Danner and his wife, Wafa Left: Dale Hooey and Sylvia Thompson, the church’s musicians

OBITUAR IES

Bob and Carol Erker

WORSHIP SERVICES

MILTON “TONY” FOWLER Tony Fowler, 87, of Longboat Key and formerly of Dobbs Ferry.

N.Y., died April 10.

EMIL ROBERT “BOB” HAVEL Bob Havel, 90, of Longboat Key and formerly of South Bend, Ind., and Lake Geneva, Wis., died May 22.

Born Aug. 22,1924, in Lemay, Mo., he was the fourth of five sons.

After serving in World War II, Mr. Havel returned to St. Louis, where he met and married Virginia Marie Jasinski in 1947. The couple moved to South Bend, where Mr. Havel founded Havel Bros. Inc. with his older brother, Bill, in 1950.

The business expanded when they were joined by their youngest brother, Dick.

The Havels raised two children and then retired to Longboat Key in 1979.

Mr. Havel’s wife, Ginny, died in 1980. In 1987, he married Ann Bilthouse. They wintered on Longboat Key and spent summers in Lake Geneva, Wis. Mr. Havel is survived by his wife, Ann; daughter, Cathy Bishop, of Longboat Key; son, Bob Havel, of Indianapolis; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Services were held June 1, at Sarasota National Cemetery with military honors.

LOUISE WEIL Louise Weil, 74, of Longboat Key, died May 30 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She is preceded in death by her first husband, Arnold Byer, and her second husband, Gordon ”Buddy” Weil Jr. She is survived by her children Amy Byer, Allyson Gwozdz, Gordon Weil III and Robert Weil; sister, Sandy Lubin; seven grandchildren; and three nieces and nephews.

Services were held June 1, in Cincinnati.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati, hospiceofcincinnati.org, or Cincinnati Dreams Come True, cincinnatidreams.org.

All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church 563 Bay Isles Road Sunday worship service is at 10 a.m.

The Rev. David Danner is the rector.

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St. Armands Key Lutheran Church 40 N. Adams Drive Contemporary Sunday worship services are at 9 a.m., and traditional worship services are at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor. 388-1234.

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive Sunday worship services are at 10 a.m.

The Rev. Norman Pritchard is the pastor. 383-8833.

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive Sunday Masses are at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.; daily Masses are at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday; and Saturday Masses are at 5 p.m. Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 383-1255.

Longboat Island Chapel 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive Sunday worship services are at 10 a.m. The Rev. Vincent Carroll is pastor.

383-6491.

Temple Beth Israel 567 Bay Isles Road Shabbat services at 8 p.m. Fridays, 5:30 p.m. on the last Friday of the month and 10 a.m. Saturdays. Jonathan Katz is the rabbi. Call 383-3428.

EMAIL Send your obituaries to Staff Writer Kristen Herhold at kherhold@yourobserver.com

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SAVOR THE FLAVOR Savor Sarasota returns for its 10th year from June 1 to June 14. We asked participating chefs if Sarasota was a flavor, what would it taste like?

“Sarasota has a world flavor. It’s a great epicurean event and adventure. You can go through every style and flavor in the world.”

– Jamil Pineda, executive chef of Michael’s On East

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Students Samantha Lane and Katherine Herbert and educator Ben Plocher have a summer home at the Sarasota Youth Opera Summer Camp.

Summer Stage A local summer program helps any student ages 8 to 18 to learn one of the most intimidating forms of art: opera.

“In Sarasota, we’re all about fresh and local seafood.

We have a coastal flavor combined with local farms for just refreshing flavor.”

– Josh Halbrucker, operating partner of Duval’s

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Claudia Johnson in the 2014 Youth Opera Summer Camp’s chorus class.

atherine Herbert was 8 when she first stepped inside the Sarasota Opera House. She was nervous. She was shy. But she loved music and she loved to sing.

She was there for the opera’s Youth Opera Summer Camp after her father urged her to attend to find friends during the summer months. What she didn’t expect to find was a new passion.

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“Sarasota’s flavor is a pepper. It can be mild or spicy, but it’s a place to relax and have a good time.”

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“I didn’t really understand opera, but I had been taking voice lessons, so, like an arrogant 8-yearold, I thought I could sing,” says Katherine, now 14 and entering ninth grade at Booker High School.

But when it came to singing opera, she had a lot to learn.

Which is exactly what she did. At the end of three weeks, Katherine left knowing more about how to control her voice, how to sing in other languages and even how to produce an opera.

She liked the experience so much, Katherine encouraged her classmate and friend from ballet, Samantha Lane, to attend the camp with her the following year.

Katherine and Samantha both say the camp has helped them develop more confidence.

“If I could come here instead of school, I would do it,” says Samantha, 14, who is also entering ninth grade at Booker. “We’ve had so many conversations about starting an opera academy and just to send us here to work and to teach us.”

The Youth Opera Program has inspired Sarasota’s musically inclined youth since 1984. Centered around a full-scale professional production during the opera’s main stage season each fall, the Sarasota Youth Opera takes all interested students (no auditions necessary) and teaches them the basics of opera singing, acting, production and history.

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Clockwise from top left: Emily Mulling sings in chorus class; the students’ final demonstration, incorporating singing, acting and staging; Graham Beckstein and Josh Van Dyke learn the art and craft of stage makeup; and campers’ personal operas they make and work on through the camp.

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“Our end goal is not to turn out ... the next stars of opera. [It] is turning out really good leaders and young people who feel confident in what they’re doing and who they are as people.”

– Ben Plocher, manager of educational activities at the Sarasota Opera

Three weeks of camp is just the start. If the opera camp staff does its job, it will spark a lifelong appreciation of opera.

“They’re sponges at that age, and the possibilities are endless,” says Plocher. “They could go a million different directions.

Through the program, our end goal is not that we’re going to turn out a whole class of opera singers or the next stars of opera. Our goal is turning out really good leaders and young people who feel confident in what they’re doing and who they are as people.”

The camp provides a supportive yet competitive environment in which students are pushed and challenged to improve.

“Opera kids are intelligent and really smart having to learn about different cultures, music and languages,” says Samantha. “But more than that, you learn and gain knowledge and become more aware of other people. It’s not just about you in the spotlight.”

For veteran campers Katherine and Samantha, the best part of camp is seeing new students fall in love with opera the same way they did.

“The new and young kids hit that level during their time being here, and they just realize that they love opera,” says Katherine.

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SOPRANO SUPERLATIVE FIRST OPERA Ben Plocher: “Gloriana” by Benjamin Britten at Opera Theatre of St. Louis Katherine Herbert: “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Sarasota Opera Samantha Lane: “Madama Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini at Sarasota Opera DREAM ROLE Katherine Herbert: Queen of the Night in “Die Zauberflöte” and Il Commendatore from “Don Giovanni.” “I was in love with (Queen of the Night) when I saw the performance, and I wanted to be her,” says Herbert.

“That’s my hands-down dream role ever since I was little. The most unachievable role that I could ever have but I want to do is Il Commendatore in ‘Don Giovanni.’ He gets to sing that killer aria in the end, and then he drags Don Giovanni into hell and I’m like, “Yes!” It’s one of my favorite scenes in all of opera.”

Samantha Lane: Carmen in “Carmen” by Georges Bizet.

“The first opera I was in here was ‘Carmen’ when I was in sixth grade. I was so nervous, and I played a little boy. I really wanted to be Carmen because she had this really nice Spanish song with a cool beat to it.”

FAVORITE PART OF CAMP Katherine Herbert: “We did the tour of the opera house, and that is the coolest thing ever.

We got to ride the pit down, and we went in the opera house where all the lights are and go in through the wig and makeup room….We got to climb down this ladder and see parts of the opera house I didn’t even know existed.”

Samantha Lane: “Learning the music with maestro because you learn how to sing in Italian, French and sometimes German, and you put acting to it, and you create a character for yourself.”

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“If you’re new, you get adopted into this family very easily,” says Katherine. “You might be nervous the second you walk in, but after that, it’s all good.”

The three-week camp in June is a crash course in opera. It features 70 to 80 students ranging in age from 8 to 18.

Five days a week, students learn the foundations of operatic singing, culture, production, history and performance from Sarasota Opera staff. Students ages 8 to 10 have shorter -length classes limited to mornings; older students are at the opera house all day.

This year, from June 8 through June 26, the opera camp class will spend approximately 90 hours learning in camp. Though it’s offseason, staff members such as Martins, Martha Collins, Francesca Macbeth and Greg Trupiano teach them the basics of music, acting, history, story and producing their own opera.

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Encore performances Robert Levin will step down from his role as organizer of the Sarasota Music Festival in 2017, after 10 years of leadership.

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The Hyatt Sarasota will turn into a mini-campus conservatory in June when the 60 college-aged students participating in this year’s Sarasota Music Festival check in.

The students will convene under the guidance of 40 professional and veteran musicians (some of whom are festival alumni) for a more than twoweek-long dive into music study, practice and performance. The result will be a 100-person musical supernova of musicians both young and experienced.

The dean of the campus is Robert Levin, 67, who has served as artistic director of the festival for nearly a decade and taught in it for 35 years.

But even after decades, Levin treats his job with the urgency of a new teacher.

“We try in every encounter with a student to do life-changing things,” says Levin. “We have a critical responsibility and an emotional and dramatic responsibility in teaching these students, and the amount of progress that can happen between coaching and the final performance can be enormous.”

The next two festivals will be

Levin’s encore performances as organizer.

Levin will take on an emeritus position beginning with the 2017 festival. He will continue to serve as a faculty member and adviser.

A committee similar to the one used to recruit Sarasota Orchestra Artistic Director Anu Tali is searching for festival’s new artistic director.

Joseph McKenna, president and CEO of Sarasota Orchestra, the parent company of the festival, praised Levin’s leadership.

“Bob Levin is unparalleled in his musical brilliance as a teacher and a scholar,” McKenna says. “I think single-handedly, his musical prowess and his extraordinary abilities is in and of itself a legacy.”

Levin took over the organizer role a decade ago from Paul Wolfe, former artistic director of the orchestra, who founded the festival in 1965 and ran it for 40 years.

What started as a one-week summit 50 years ago now requires organizers to sift through nearly 500 video auditions from conservatory and college students from throughout the globe.

Levin became a visiting faculty member at the festival in 1979.

After becoming director, he led the festival through the recession and a reorganization that reduced the number of students from 90

AT A GLANCE ROBERT LEVIN Age: 67 Resume: A Harvard University graduate, Levin has taught since he was 20. He has held positions at the Curtis Institute of Music, SUNY Purchase, Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau and his alma mater as a professor of humanities.

The New York City native has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia and studied music and piano with prestigious instructors Louis Martin, Stefan Wolpe and Nadia Boulanger in New York and Fontainebleau, France.

to 60 selected from auditions.

Despite the changes, he describes his approach as, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

He follows the model that Wolfe established during his 40 years of organizing the festival with a mix of lectures, performances and small chamber performances by students and faculty.

Levin said teaching has always been at the heart of his musical passion.

“Speaking personally, there is no greater satisfaction that I can

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have (other) than inspiring, challenging, mentoring young musicians and helping them to rise to the pinnacle of the professions,” says Levin. “Teaching is a sacred responsibility to me, and it’s one that all of the faculty takes seriously, and the community has the very special opportunity to have the best and brightest young artists to play for them.”

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“Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” is now playing at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. The title speaks to the scale of the ambition — like saying “Einstein Equates: The Life and Physics of Albert Einstein.” This is no mere song revue or a by-the-numbers biography. It easily could have been. But creators David M. Lutken (who plays Guthrie) and Nick Corley (who also directs) had something else in mind.

Their musical tracks the folksinger’s life from his hardscrabble youth in Oklahoma and Texas to the Dust Bowl exodus, to his sharp turn to the left in California and battles with radio stations in New York City — and literal battles when he enlisted in World War II (and slapped a “This Machine Kills Fascists” sticker on his guitar). It’s a long, strange trip with a cruel ending worthy of a “Twilight Zone” episode.

The fat cats and the Dust Bowl didn’t get him, but Huntington’s disease did. That hereditary, degenerative muscular disease took Guthrie down in his final years. By the 1960s, he couldn’t move or speak. It was the era when Bob Dylan and other singer-songwriters were walking his road. And he couldn’t even make any wisecracks.

Lutken and Corley’s musical unfolds this odyssey in Guth-

rie’s own words, taken from his “Woody Sez” column in “The Daily Worker,” his autobiography and other sources. You don’t simply hear Guthrie’s story; you hear his voice.

Songs, too. (That goes without saying, but I decided to say it anyway.)

The 35 songs include “This Land is Your Land,” “So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh,” etc. Most of us know these tunes by heart — or the nonradical portions, anyway.

Guthrie’s songs are crowdpleasers — but this musical isn’t out to please the crowd.

There’s no applause bait, no emotional manipulation. The musical places Guthrie’s songs in context. And always puts the story first.

That’s not to say the music is shortchanged. Lutken plays a mean guitar — and a Dylanesque harmonica, too. He’s backed up by three amazingly talented performers: Helen Jean Russell, Darcie Deaville and David Finch. They tackle autoharps, dulcimers, banjos, stand-up bass, violins (aka fiddles), mandolins, guitars, spoons and instruments unknown. And turn on a dime from duets to solos to quartets in Lutken’s fast-paced musical direction. Great music. But never just music.

Guthrie’s songs themselves are stories. Packed with truth.

The story around them also rings true. Corley’s direction honors the narrative’s organic quality. The story’s just hap-

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pening, unfolding at random.

Artifice disguised as artlessness. He does it so well, it’s almost rude to point it out.

The three supporting singer/ actors take turns as various characters — Will Geer, Pete Seeger or Guthrie’s mother as the story dictates. Fine actors, yes. But most of the time, they’re just cranking out the music. The first-person narrative is on Lutken’s shoulders.

And he can act as well as he can play. The long, lanky Lutken looks and sounds like Guthrie.

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Corley and Lutken never take the easy road. Whitewash Guthrie’s red politics? Nope.

Tell the tale in order? No. The narrative switches back on itself, like a tale around a campfire. Song and story form a seamless web here. And there’s a surprising amount of both. With Guthrie, what you leave out is always a problem.

(He wrote more than 1,000

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songs — and had a fair amount to say in print, as well.) But the creators pack a lifetime’s worth into this 90-minute production. And that’s the hardest task of all.

Making the man real.

Not so easy. Like Odysseus and Tom Joad, Woody Guthrie was a larger-than-life figure.

The audience comes with the legend in its mind. Lutken and Corley give the legend a nod.

But they let Guthrie speak for himself. You hear his voice, and the man emerges. Not a giant, just a person. Life-sized.

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Always keep things in perspective.

ed things at our home and it was a lot of fun, but I still really didn’t do anything. From those things though, I would hear stories from the kids and see the things that were happening because of the programs. Seeing how important these programs and the money we were raising for these programs were to their lives and the opportunities it was giving them, that’s when I started getting more involved with the Y Achievers program.

WE MOVED here seven years ago and early on my wife, Dawn, met Debbie and Dan Dannheisser, and that’s when Dawn got totally involved. She got involved with Y Angels,

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you think. From that I think I’m kinder, more compassionate, more sympathetic and less judgmental. It’s important to remember that no matter who you meet, you don’t know their story.

MY PURPOSE is both to impact more kids and to encourage others to volunteer and get more involved. I’ve been asked to speak about my experience and I try to encourage people, to help them understand how impactful this is for their lives and yours. The saying “the more you give, the more you get” — I now understand what that means.

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YOUR NEIGHBORS SWEETEN ST. ARMANDS

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A 150-pound person can burn 156 calories per hour for shopping.

So after an afternoon of sweating it out on St. Armands Circle, reward yourself by going on a quest to find the Circle’s best ice cream cone.

Visit the St. Armands Circle Association’s website, starmandscircleassoc.com and click on “ice cream/confections” on the directory tab.

TAKE A SAFARI TO SEE LONGBOAT’S “BIG FIVE:” 1. MANATEES: prefer warm, shallow waters with seagrass. Try kayaking the mangrove tunnels near South Lido Key. 2. DOLPHINS: You’ll often see them leaping through the water while you dine outdoors on the bayfront. Taking a charter cruise is also a good option for dolphinsightings.

3. TURTLES: Set your alarm clock early to attend a turtle walk at 6:45 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays in June and July beginning at the public beach access at 4795 Gulf of Mexico Drive. A volunteer will teach participants about signs of nesting turtles and provide information about keeping beaches turtlefriendly.

4. SWANS: Longboat Key’s swan family graces the waters of the Longboat Key Club’s Islandside and Harbourside golf courses.

5. PEACOCKS: You’ll find peacocks in the Longbeach Village, of course. But be warned: Do not disturb the residents.

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GET A HISTORY LESSON On Nov. 4, the town turns 60. And who among us isn’t counting down the days (153 at press time) until the big birthday? Get a history lesson by biking the Key and stopping at each of the seven historic markers, located betwen Overlook Park to the south and Broadway to the north.

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MAKE A DATE WITH YOUR DOG FOR FREEDOM FEST The quarter-mile Fourth of July parade loops around Bay Isles Road. Games and old-fashioned fun follow. For the second year, the Longboat Key Rotary Club will offer a “Hot Diggity Dog” parade that includes prizes for the best-pressed dog.

Bird Key women hit the runway for the final show of the season.

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Your dog will probably want to cool off after Freedom Fest, but canine kids are banned from Longboat Key beaches. Fortunately for Fido, there are other options: Leashed dogs are allowed at Joan Durante Park, 5550 Gulf of Mexico Drive, where there are also pet-friendly water fountains.

Leashed dogs are also allowed at Ken Thompson Park on City Island and Bird Key Park, both of which have bay accesses.

You can also bring your dog on your boat and head to the sandbars near Jewfish Key and New Pass, where dogs can legally wade around. Just make sure your pet doesn’t head for the beach — a move that could land him or her in Cops Corner.

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FIND BEACH READS Find new summer reads at the Longboat Library, 555 Bay Isles Road.

The library will offer “Wonderful Wednesday” discounts Wednesdays beginning June 3, in which all books will be for sale at half price. Hours are 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

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EAT, DRINK, BE MERRY Sample local restaurants during Savor Sarasota Restaurant Week, which runs June 1 through June 15, featuring prix fixe $15 two-course lunches and $29 three-course dinners at participating restaurants. This year’s participating Longboat Key restaurants are Amore By Andrea, Chart House, Dry Dock Waterfront Restaurant, Euphemia Haye Restaurant and Harry’s Continental Kitchens. On Lido Key and St. Armands Circle, Café L’Europe, Lido Beach Grille and Surf Shack Coastal Kitchen are participating. If you’re thirsty, do a Longboat Key pub crawl — and take the trolley. But plan on an early night, because the trolley makes its last stop on the Key at 7:51 p.m. For a full schedule, go to scgov.net, click on “SCAT Bus Service,” and select Route 18.

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Mote celebrity residents include manatees Hugh and Buffett, who are known for their Super Bowl predictions, and sea turtles such as Caleb, Hang Tough, Harry, Shelley and Montego. Save Our Seabirds stars include Billess, a pelican with a broken beak, and Gabby, a cockatoo who likes to sing “Happy Birthday.”

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BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME ON LONGBOAT KEY Wide canal lot on Dream Island Rd. $849,000 Deep water canal in Sleepy Lagoon $600,000 Jungle Queen Way lot close to beach $325,000

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Soar down Gulf of Mexico Drive at a full 45 mph. The snowbirds are gone, so relish every chance you get to drive to the mainland in 15 minutes or less before the first car carriers return.

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NEWS CYCLE. Longboat Key residents and avid cyclists Maureen and Arthur Wood brought their Observer along to the 17th annual Georgia Tandem Rally, in Macon, Ga. They rode 98 miles over three days, with a total elevation gain of 4,100 feet. They report that it was much more physically challenging than the 75 to 100 miles they ride each week, but they returned home with no ill effects.

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Photos by Kristen Herhold

Fashion show co-chairwomen Wendy Walker and Nancy Moore

he women of Bird Key Yacht Club enjoyed their final fashion show of the season May 28.

A local business is showcased at each fashion show, and this month’s business was Exit Art. O Bags also had a booth at the event, selling bags and watches.

“We try to showcase stores close to the Key, rather than farther-away stores like at (the) University mall,” event cochairwoman Nancy Moore said.

“Our theme this year has been ‘Hidden Treasures,’ and Exit Art is a hidden treasure.”

Above: Ginger Mermin models.

Left: Annette Lloyd walks the runway.

—KRISTEN HERHOLD

“People look forward to the fashion show every month. It’s been an exciting year, and it’s been very well received.”

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GRAND BAY PENTHOUSE - Rarely available w/4 en-suite bedrooms & 5,000sf wraparound terrace. $2,600,000

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LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS • RECENTLY SOLD 603 Longboat Club Road #802N • $986,000

BAY ISLES 3610 Bayou Circle • $1,249,000

COUNTRY ESTATE - Gated five acre estate east of I-75 with six bedroom renovated main residence. $1,995,000

PIERRE - 3 bedroom 2,780sf corner residence w/ stunning views behind the gate of Longboat Key Club. $1,395,000 A4111615

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CASEY KEY LOT - Desirable one acre mid-key bay front lot with 250’ on Sarasota Bay. $1,500,000.

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Water Club | 3/4 | $1,895,000 Taube Levitt 866.600.6008 478033 1241 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #803 FloridaMoves.com/A4118546

Longboat Key Estates | 3/3.5 | $1,750,000 Lynn Robbins 866.600.6008 477770 593 Kingfisher Ln FloridaMoves.com/A4118335

Bird Key | 3/3 | $1,649,000 Lynne Koy 866.600.6008 482213 524 N Spoonbill Dr FloridaMoves.com/A4121176

Tiffany Plaza | 2/2.5 | $1,599,000 Janice Langa 866.600.6008 38066 4325 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #604 FloridaMoves.com/A4115194

Sanctuary | 3/2.5 | $1,445,000 Bruce Myer 866.600.6008 469179 565 Sanctuary Dr, Unit #B205 FloridaMoves.com/A4120929

Beachplace | 3/2 | $1,399,000 Audrey Marten 866.600.6008 476529 1145 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #305 FloridaMoves.com/A4116910

Inn On The Beach | 2/2 | $1,079,000 Gabe/Charles Buky 866.600.6008 468892 210 Sands Point Rd 2802 FloridaMoves.com/A3979093

Longboat Key Club | 3/3 | $999,000 Linda Weber 866.600.6008 95179 3661 Bayou Cir FloridaMoves.com/A4106070

Longboat Key Club | $999,000 Roger Pettingell 866.600.6008 480769 1021 Longboat Club Rd FloridaMoves.com/A4120852

Longboat Key Towers | 2/2 | $977,000 Judy Kepecz-Hays 866.600.6008 469722 603 Longboat Club Rd, Unit #204N FloridaMoves.com/A4106931

Golden Gate Pt | 3/2 | $799,900 Mary Ann Dabney 866.600.6008 91345 226 Golden Gate Pt, Unit 12 FloridaMoves.com/A4116111

Winding Oaks | 3/3 | $799,000 The Barbara Ackerman Group 866.600.6008 3435 Winding Oaks Dr, Unit #18 FloridaMoves.com/A4121123

Promenade | 2/2 | $769,000 Roger Pettingell 866.600.6008 482215 1211 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #108 FloridaMoves.com/A4121139

Dolphin Bay | 2/2 | $749,900 Jo James 866.600.6008 45067 1260 Dolphin Bay Way, Unit #203 FloridaMoves.com/A4109278

Harbour Oaks | 3/2.5 | $695,000 Bruce Myer 866.600.6008 481154 2157 Harbourside Dr, Unit #802 FloridaMoves.com/A4120959

Tiffany Plaza | 2/2 | $672,500 Phil Schneider 866.600.6008 480067 4325 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #102 FloridaMoves.com/A4119580

Inn On The Beach | 2/2 | $659,000 Judy Kepecz-Hays 866.600.6008 468968 250 Sands Point Rd, Unit #5407 FloridaMoves.com/A3994188

Siesta Key | Lots/Land | $599,000 Carolyn Donnelly 866.600.6008 469426 3923 Roberts Point Rd FloridaMoves.com/A4105095

Desota Park | 3/2 | $579,900 Michelle Musto 866.600.6008 480529 1965 Hibiscus Street FloridaMoves.com/A4120491

Beachplace | 2/2 | $519,000 Babette Paige 866.600.6008 45045 1065 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #104 FloridaMoves.com/A4104477

Windward Bay | 2/2 | $390,000 Toni Giliberti 866.600.6008 469046 4600 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #202 FloridaMoves.com/A4119385

Silver Sands A Condo | 2/2 | $364,900 Michelle Musto 866.600.6008 480768 5841 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #235 FloridaMoves.com/A4120767

Seaplace I | 2/2 | $305,000 Sandy Endres 866.600.6008 477944 2039 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Unit #G3-304 FloridaMoves.com/A4118297

Villagewalk | 3/3 | $279,000 Valentina Pippin 866.600.6008 95187 7745 Bergamo Ave FloridaMoves.com/A4107428

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YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Condo unit at The Beaches sells for $2.1 million

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condominium in The Beaches of Longboat Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Ann Muckle and Antonino Treffletti sold their Unit 1008 condominium at 775 Longboat Club Road to Andrew Economos, of Scarsdale, N.Y., for $2.1 million. Built in 1984, it has four bedrooms, four baths and 2,386 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.15 million in 2001.

Sanctuary at Longboat Key Club Richard Segall, Jay Webber, and Clare Segall, trustees, of Longboat Key, sold the Unit A-701 condominium at 535 Sanctuary Drive to Anne Elfstrum, trustee, of Cranbury, N.J., for $1,825,000. Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 3,115 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.24 million in 2001.

The Water Club at Longboat Key Cynthia Schrader, trustee, of DeKalb, Ill., sold the Unit 508 condominium at 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Richard and Jane Schwartz, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for $1.55 million. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, four baths and 2,965 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $626,300 in 1996.

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Unit 1008 at The Beaches of Longboat Key sold for $2.1 million.

Country Club Shores Teri-Ann Sax sold her home at 536 Yawl Lane to Steven and Debra Newman, of Longboat Key, for $1.4 million. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms,

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three and a half baths, a pool and 4,832 square feet of living area.

Grand Bay Fred Howard, Barry Howard and Connie Schwartz, trustees, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., sold the Unit 245 condominium at 3040 Grand Bay Blvd. to Barbara Mason, of Bloomfield, Conn., for $887,500. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $460,000 in 1996.

Donnie and Sammy Smith sold their Unit 145 condominium at 3060 Grand Bay Blvd. to Ned and Joan Winkelman, of Bloomfield, Mich., for $850,000. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $487,500 in 1995.

Islands West Valerie Olah, of Wyomissing, Pa., sold her Unit 4-A condominium at 2525 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Christina

601 Longboat Club Road 203S A4122120 $925,000 Maureen Horn

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560 Wedge Lane A4111450 $875,000 Jonathan Fox

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541 Chipping Lane A4121363 $825,000 Jonathan Fox

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-544-6649

558 Bayview Drive A4122134 $800,000 Bobbi Banan

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-2659

5372 Sandhamn Place A4112016 $3,498,000 Richard Perlman

1145 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 402 A4119959 $799,000 Jenifer Schwell

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

695 Marbury Lane A4109609 $798,000 Jenine Meyer

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-266-8303

2110 Harbourside Drive 514 A4122195 $749,000 Ian Addy Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-961-8850

2425 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 5 A3995790 $735,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-6673

1910 Harbour Links Cir # 12 A3999366 $729,000 Jenine Meyer

Reynolds, of Wyckoff, N.J., for $860,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,460 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $78,000 in 1976.

The Beaches of Longboat Key Donald Nicell sold the Unit 705 condominium at 775 Longboat Club Road to James Brickman, trustee, of Plano, Texas, for $815,000. Built in 1984, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,602 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1.1 million in 2005 Sunset Beach on Longboat Key James and Joleen Kane, of Lakeland, sold their Unit 1101 condominium at 2109 Gulf of Mexico Drive to David and Amanda Trocker, of La Canada Flintridge, Calif., for $635,000. Built in 1984, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,358 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $620,000 in 2002.

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-228-8580

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-266-8303

662 Norton Street A4121956 $724,900 Sandi Layfield

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535 Sanctuary Drive C106 A4117509 $2,175,000 Ian Addy Pa

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2350 Harbour Oaks Drive A4118606 $689,000 Beverly St Hilaire

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4805 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 105 A4121003 $629,000 Maureen Horn

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-539-3384

1000 Longboat Club Road 905 A4114699 $589,000 Jenine Meyer

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-266-8303

2525 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 5B A4116689 $585,000 Tom Delaney

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-3990

1000 Longboat Club Road 603 A4121022 $549,000 Catherine De’Ath

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-350-9799

2000 Harbourside Drive 1504 A4119984 $499,000 Tammy Mast

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-256-6543

7125 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 12 A3998052 $479,000 Richard Perlman

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-228-8580

615 Dream Island Road 308 A4110859 $475,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

615 Dream Island Road 205 A4119473 $450,000 Susan Fox

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-544-6648

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of May 21 through May 27, in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y ADDRESS PERMIT APPLICANT

Castillian Condo 4525 GMD Concrete repair Association

Concrete repair Castillian Condo 4545 GMD and painting Association 5055 GMD No. 113 Bathroom alterations Brian Rivotto 548 Hornblower Lane Pool Jopico LLC 1241 GMD Hurricane shutters Christina Grant 1050 Longboat Club Road No. 205 Interior alterations John Albert 1050 Longboat Club Road Concrete repair Privateer North 2245 Harbourside Drive Bathroom alterations Michael Sirchis 585 Sanctuary Drive No.B-104 Hurricane shutters Michael Morello 575 Sanctuary Drive No. A-301 Hurricane shutters Thomas Blakely 518 Bayview Drive Re-roof Bencion Moskow 5861 GMD Demolition John Gormally 350 GMD No. 215 Alteration Robert Becker 3641 Bayou Circle Pool fence Michael Scharf 787 St. Judes Drive N. Dock Lordito Calijan 791 St. Judes Drive N. Dock Key Handyman Services 572 Juan Anasco Drive Stairs Reina Berman 500 Gunwale Lane Windows Kevin Pozulp 2251 GMD Fire sprinklers BBC Key LLC

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448 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A305 A3965898 $410,000 Diana Kryszak

740 Fox Street A4109613 $347,500 Bruce Meyer

527 Sutton Place A4119419 $292,000 Anna Kaminski

AMOUNT $235,447 $235,447 $37,935 $34,890 $33,130 $32,500 $24,800 $23,000 $20,700 $20,700 $19,463 $18,578 $14,250 $3,316 $2,000 $2,000 $1,500 n/a n/a

1425 Westway Dr A3993944 $3,990,000 Stephanie Church

Lido Key 941-388-4447 941-724-5448

6051 Gulf Of Mexico Dr A3983113 $3,950,000 Ann Martin & Joanna Benante

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-7717

4975 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 303 A4123393 $3,450,000 Debra Lee Rugh

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-320-0677

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Residences, PH 1603 A3977904 $2,700,000 Beth Afflebach & Joan Dickinson

Sarasota 941-364-8884 941-737-1756

741 Hideaway Bay Drive A4103504 $2,695,000 Saint Cacchiotti

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-809-0787

3060 Grand Bay Boulevard PH 1101 A4109140 $2,600,000 Michael Moulton

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

535 Sanctuary Drive A801 A4114806 $1,995,000 Carol Cohen Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-356-3829

435 L Ambiance Drive H202 A4113356 $1,795,000 Klaus Lang

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-320-1223

572 Gunwale Lane A4112296 $1,599,000 Jenifer Schwell

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

455 Longboat Club Rd # 508 A3996566 $1,395,000 Michael Moulton

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

210 Sands Point Road 2001 A4107506 $1,150,000 Ian Addy Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-961-8850

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4621 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 9F A4117915 $397,500 Rory Jaret

1001 Benjamin Franklin Drive 404 A4113690 $309,000 Barbara May

2721 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 401 A4119979 $259,000 C. Scott Dennison

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-348-3989

Sarasota 941-388-4447 404-822-9264

Longboat Key 941-951-6660 941-587-3437

2055 Gulf Of Mexico Drive G2-104 A4122832 $396,000 Sharon Freeman

4440 Exeter Drive 301 A4121923 $299,000 Sharon Freeman

3808 Gulf Of Mexico Drive E109 A4114871 $254,900 Stephen Harris

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-545-0899

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-545-0899

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-2352

VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S 25 Lighthouse Point Drive A4108131 $5,200,000 Ian Addy Pa

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Local officials eye hurricane season As hurricane season begins, officials urge residents to plan ahead during the calm before the storms.

KRISTEN HERHOLD STAFF WRITER

More than 70 years have passed since the Sarasota area experienced a direct hit from a hurricane.

But the fact that the area has been lucky doesn’t mean there won’t be a hurricane this season, and residents should prepare for the worst.

“It’s important to develop a plan on a so-called blue sky day,” said Manatee County Emergency Management Chief Don Hermey. “People can really think it through now, compared to not having a plan if the worst happens and just reacting. Chances are, you’ll forget something.”

Officials recommend that residents stock up on disaster sup-

EMERGENCY PLANNING For planning resources, visit FLGetAPlan.com or gdacs.org.

plies, including medicines, food, drinking water, first aid supplies, flashlights, a nonelectric can opener and fire extinguisher.

In the event of an evacuation, residents should take pillows, blankets, extra clothing, folding chairs, toiletries, important papers and documents and irreplaceable keepsakes.

Hermey recommends people make a checklist to prepare.

“People need to focus on their plans to ensure they’ve covered all the basics, which includes food, water, where they’re going when they’re evacuated and what they’re doing to protect their buildings if they’re staying,” he said.

The forecast for hurricane season calls for a season with a below-average number of storms.

“I anticipate the number of storms this year will be in line with what the predictions are,” said Bryan Koon, emergency management director for the state of Florida. “I don’t know where any of the storms will go, and I can’t tell you whether we’ll have a hurricane hit Florida, but we are preparing as if we are going to have multiple hurricanes hit Florida this year.”

Barrier islands, such as Longboat, Lido and Siesta keys, are most likely to be evacuated.

“There’s a very high likelihood that with storm surge, people on the islands will be evacuated

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS SEMINAR

File photo

Tropical Storm Debby brought flooding to St. Armands Circle and several areas of Longboat Key in June 2012.

before people on the mainland,” Koon said. “Even if their homes are dry, it won’t be safe to be out there, and the roads could be impassable. For the folks right on the water or very near the water, planning for an evacuation is important.”

Those living farther east aren’t as likely to face an evacuation, but they still need to plan for a potential disaster.

“For folks farther inland by I-75, they might not have to leave, and they may be best served by riding it out,” Koon said. “They’re the ones who especially need to consider a generator and buy a greater amount of supplies if they weather the storm. Sometimes they just have to let the roads be clear for folks who truly need to evacuate.”

Communication is also key in

preparing for a hurricane.

“The other critical component is communicating the plan you have with your neighbors and your loved ones, not only in the area but also outside the area,” Hermey said. “If your loved ones don’t know what’s going on, the stress can radiate outside the area, and that is the last thing people need or want in a hurricane.”

If residents are evacuated, they could be given anywhere from hours to days to leave.

“Warnings will vary according to the storm,” Hermey said. “If the storm is moving through the Gulf at 4 mph and it’s 400 miles away, one can do the math and say, ‘I’ve got days.’ If it’s moving at 15 mph and it’s only 100 miles away, it’s another story. You’ve got hours.”

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce and the town will host the 13th Disaster Preparedness Seminar from 3 to 6:30 p.m. June 8, at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.

Bryan Koon, the state’s emergency management director, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Julius Halas, director of the State Fire Marshal’s Office and former Longboat Key Fire Rescue chief; Bob Harrigan, ABC-7 chief meteorologist; Manatee County Emergency Management Chief Don Hermey; Sarasota County Emergency Management Chief Edward McCrane; and representatives from the Longboat Key Police, Fire Rescue and Public Works departments.

“It’s been several years since we have experienced any kind of hurricane landfall in Florida, so many residents are either new to the area and have never experienced a hurricane, or their state of preparedness may have declined over those years,” Assistant to the Town Manager Susan Phillips said.

“This event will emphasize the things they can do at home to protect themselves, their pets and their boats and raise the awareness for all residents, businesses and visitors.”

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FORECAST

NATURE’S BEAUTY WITH

SUNRISE / SUNSET

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 High: 91 Low: 72 Chance of rain: 20%

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 High: 90 Low: 73 Chance of rain: 30%

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SUNDAY, JUNE 7 High: 87 Low: 74 Chance of rain: 40%

June 9 Last

TIDES

June 16 New

July 1 Full

June 24 First

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Boris Gozhansky submitted this photo of a brown anole lizard, taken on Leffis Key near Coquina Beach.

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32 Carve in stone 35 Beanery sign 1 Reveals 36 Brownish purple 6 Music award 40 Artist Chagall 12 Tell a secret 43 They all lead to Rome, 16 Outward flow of the tide it’s said 19 Plain folk 45 Troop camp 20 Take the reins again 49 Soon, to a bard 21 Indian royal 50 Dichotomies 22 “___ bad!”

52 Summary 23 Valentine’s Day cel53 Andes capital ebrants 54 Paris railway 25 Relating to the armpit 55 Victorian, for one 27 “___ never believe it!”

56 Sailing ship with three 28 Edgar Allen and family or more masts (var.)

29 Unavoidably involved 57 One of the Brady Bunch 30 Starchy tuber 59 Suffixes with “two” or

“four” 61 Hair piece 63 Function 64 Motor parts 66 Summer shade 67 Top-of-the-line 68 Bakers’ wares 69 Some insurance policy clauses 73 Affirm 75 Ilsa ___ (“Casablanca” character) 76 Alternative to “com” or “org” 77 Act of twisting 80 Fleur-de-___ 81 Prepared for a drive

82 Official of old Rome 84 Really irritate 85 Dismissive scoffs 87 Dinner table dropping 89 Daughter of Ops and Saturn 91 “Mona ___” 92 Half of Hispaniola 93 Well-pitched game 95 “... happily ___ after” 96 Colorado resort 97 Big Bertha’s birthplace 98 Carry a tune 100 Some animal shelters 101 ___-bodied 103 Europe’s high points 105 Tool with teeth

1 Thai currency 2 Eastern nurse 3 Ready to be picked 4 Catch a glimpse of 5 Coyly 6 Miracle-___ (gardening brand) 7 Join again, as the army 8 Food fit for a dog 9 Confused hand-to-hand fighting 10 Experts (var.)

11 Rusher’s stats 12 Highlands hillside 13 Lack of strictness 14 Santa ___ Park (racetrack) 15 Like some agreements 16 And others, for short 17 Make yawn 18 “Cheers” bartender Woody 24 Chowder morsel 26 “Tiny” of films 31 Earned 33 Dove houses 34 “Aquarius” musical 36 Tropical trees of Florida 37 An Eastern Christian 38 Russian craft?

39 Battle recreator 41 Dead-end jobs 42 Jugular’s counterpart 44 Church official 46 Eager to possess

things 47 Take a breather 48 Fencing equipment 51 “Death of a Salesman” name 54 Game with shooters 56 Dwellers by the English Channel 58 Gambler’s chit 60 Concluded 62 Single condo, e.g.

65 Pivot 67 Magic charms 68 Crushed, as a spice 70 Funds 71 Decree 72 Anger 73 Greek “A” 74 Passport endorsements 78 Football Hall-of-Famer Merlin 79 Approaches 81 Two games for the price of one 82 “I Love Lucy” name 83 “... ___ saw Elba” 86 “Relax, and that’s an order!”

88 Santa ___, California 90 Coastal raptors 93 Even smaller 94 Like current heads of state 99 Breaks 102 Danny DeVito’s “Taxi” role 104 Perform brilliantly 106 “Yippee!”

107 Baby foods 108 “Not to mention ...”

109 Berth place 110 Playing with a full deck 112 1450, in Rome 113 Calls, in poker 115 Bring in the sheaves 116 H.H. Munro’s pen name 117 Knotted up 118 “Auld Lang ___” 120 General on some Chinese menus 121 “___ we having fun yet?”

CRYPTOQUIZ Each of the following cryptograms is a clue to the identity of a Tony award winner. Using the hints O=E and D=N, decipher the clues to name the entertainer.

1. J V U J E B X 2. C O K O Y E D 3. O S B O D O X ’ D O U Q Q 4. K V O R U M O D J V E D K O R 5. N E B D X Q U E This entertainer was nominated for a Tony eight times and won one in 1959:

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Grand Bay Building III - 3rd Floor Never lived in 2BR+ study apartment with Gulf & Bay views. Allergy free construction! Excellent amenities, pet-friendly, and deeded Beach Club membership included.

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Country Club Shores #1 Bay Front Location Coveted Southern exposure 4BR plus office 2-story home beautifully updated on 245’ of waterfront with large screened pool/spa and private dock with lift. $3,250,000

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South Sarasota - Beneva Oaks Like new 5 bedroom + bonus room home on 1.15 acres in a gated community. 50x75 screened pool & brick paver lanai. 2-car garage.

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Eagles Point at The Landings Water views from every room of this South-facing three bedroom, two bath residence with washer/ dryer, oversized terrace, private enclosed garage + extra parking space. $739,000

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Winding Oaks - Lakefront Villa Largest 3BR single level maintenance free residence with high ceilings, views of a sparkling wide lake, the exclusive Bay Isles Harbourside Golf Course, and nature preserve beyond! $799,000

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Sanctuary - Behind the Gates Great value in a beach front location! Two bedroom + den, two and a half bathrooms with beautiful wood floors. $849,000

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Ringling Pointe - Historic Sapphire Shores Stunning Direct Bay Front On 145 feet of deep water with 5BR/3.5 BA, a 2,200 SF master suite, 1,000 bottle wine room, private dock. $3,740,000

North Casey Key - Villa Crescendo Gulf to Bay luxury with 6,024 SF, 4BR+ den/5th BR/5BA and water views from every room!

A private tranquil family retreat with quality appointments throughout, 4-car garage and private dock. WAS $4,900,000 $4,450,000

Bird Key - Beauty on the Bay Stunning Mediterranean open Bay front showplace with 5 bedrooms + an entertainment room & study has breathtaking views, waterfront pool, & spa and private multi-craft dock. $4,500,000

Longboat Key Club - Inn on the Beach Ownership rental program. Four-Diamond rating resort. Junior suite direct Gulf views in desirable building 3 on the 4th floor. Hotel managed. $495,000

Grand Bay Building I - 9th Floor Turnkey furnished 3BR apartment with 10’ ceilings, rich wood flooring, and exceptional sunrises over the Bay and sunsets over the Gulf. $1,170,000

Water Club II - 10th Floor Direct Gulf front three bedroom + den, 5 baths apartment beautifully redone. New kitchen, floors, the works! Bay views and forever sunsets. $3,495,000

Islands West – 12th Floor Phenomenal views looking up the beach and panoramic views over Sarasota Bay from this two bedroom two bath home in the sky! $805,000

Countr y Club Shores - Direct Bay Front 3,700+ SF home with 3 BR+ study/4th bedroom, stunning open Bay views, infinityedge pool, protected boat dock & 257 feet of seawall. $3,500,000

Vista Bay Point - On Golden Gate Point Downtown Sarasota residence lives like a home!

Enjoy supreme elegance, tranquility and privacy combined into four stunning full bedrooms, four bathrooms, a private elevator foyer and gorgeous Sunset and Bay views. $1,575,000

Sanderling Club-Siesta Key Coastal residence redone in 2010 has 3 bedrooms plus an art studio/den and forever protected views across the lagoon. High vaulted ceilings, gleaming wood floors, garden room & outdoor spa + 2-car garage and private beach club included. $1,150,000

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Laurel Oak Country Club Executive Home situated on a 1 acre lot. 4 bedrooms 6 baths + study and entertainment room built and designed by Arthur Rutenberg in 2002.

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Lido Shores - Westway Drive Build your dream home! Gorgeous lot on 113’ of seawall is fenced & gated and has large private dock with water & electric. Rarely available! $5,000,000

Corey’s Landing - Single Family Home Unique three bedroom / two full and one half bathroom stand-alone maintenance free home nestled in tropical splendor at the end of a culde-sac with 3,271 square feet, beautiful screened pool, and 2-car garage. $998,000

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Atrium - Building V Bay and city views from this 4th floor turnkey furnished apartment with three FULL bedrooms and an eat-in kitchen.

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Ritz Carlton Residences - Downtown Sarasota Spacious 11th floor pied-a-terre in the heart of culturally rich Sarasota has 2,170 square feet, wood and granite, and Bay and City views!

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