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DOWNTOWN SIGN REGULATIONS

City seeks merchant input The city’s current sign policies will receive a thorough examination later this summer.

A BLANK SPACE

Mark Ormond seeks to curate a conversation using art.

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MAPPING IT OUT 3A The Urban Design Studio reveals a plan to increase density in urban areas — and drive transit solutions.

DAVID CONWAY NEWS EDITOR

In June, McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre celebrated its one-year anniversary in its new location on Ringling Boulevard.

Although Les McCurdy is still enamored with his location’s downtown home, there is one problem that’s consistently stymied him: He hasn’t been able to get approval for a sign advertising the venue’s upcoming performances.

To be fair, McCurdy clarifies, he hasn’t been pursuing the issue with the vigor that he perhaps could be. Still, it was a problem when he first moved in and was seeking a back-lit marquee sign.

Today, he believes an electronic SEE SIGNS PAGE 6A

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McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre and Humor Institute owner Les McCurdy thinks Sarasota’s existing sign ordinances place too big a burden on downtown businesses, and believes a common-sense solution is needed.

Lido: Not a place to pick up chicks As a colony of black skimmers settles into a new home on Lido Key, volunteer stewards take watch to make sure beachgoers behave themselves during nesting season.

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Pine View School senior Reid Devitt spent last weekend leading the project to replant the St. Mary’s Children's Garden at Church of the Redeemer. The project is part of the final steps for Devitt to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank a Boy Scout can attain. Devitt was joined by members of the Boy Scout Troupe 50 and volunteers to replace plants throughout the garden.

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WEEK OF JULY 2 2015 Rising revenues shrink city budget gap At a meeting Monday, staff presented the City Commission with the preliminary budget for fiscal year 2015-16.

Although the city is facing a general fund deficit, the preliminary difference between revenues and expenditures is currently $252,497. That total represents a significant decrease from preliminary deficits ranging from $3 million to $6 million in FY 2013-15.

In years past, the city has raised taxes or borrowed from other funds to balance the general fund budget. This year, staff believes it can cover the existing budget gap with the use of its revenue stabilization fund, a reserve set up by the city during the recession.

Taxable property values are up 6.9% citywide, which would create a $1.2 million increase in general fund revenue with a level millage rate. Total property tax revenue is $27.3 million this year, the highest since 2009 and an increase from a low of $22.1 million in 2012.

WHAT’S THE BUZZ?

“He’s a bright, smart, articulate, hardworking individual who has a record of success. ... We’ll see if he gets a chance.”

City Manager Tom Barwin on Doug Logan, his hire for the city’s new homeless director position

SIESTA PROJECTS CHUG AHEAD

Sarasota City Commissioner Susan Chapman has made no secret of her disapproval of the city’s hiring of Doug Logan, director of special initiatives on chronic homelessness. Though she decided not to pursue pulling funding for his $120,000 annual salary, she has continued to question his credentials for tackling the local homelessness issues. Here’s what readers had to say online:

“I totally agree with Susan on this subject. If we are going to spend this kind of money, we need to have someone with knowledge and expertise with the homeless.”

— Deborah Lee

Alex Mahadevan

With a fresh seawall and new name, Nora Patterson Bay Island Park is nearly ready to fully reopen as the roughly $1.1 million Sarasota County project comes to an end this summer.

“As of Friday, construction of the seawall replacement project is nearly complete,” said county spokesman Jason Bartolone. “At the county-owned south side, the seawall panels, seawall cap, new concrete sidewalks and new concrete bench pads are completed.”

This week the contractor will move on to resurfacing or paving areas of the north Siesta Key

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park — including two new parking spaces connected to new sidewalks — and begin cleaning up construction areas. Current parking spaces have been dressed with new shell, and the project will end with new benches, fishing rails, fencing and minor landscape improvements.

Farther south, the county continues work on the $21.5 million Siesta Key public beach improvement project, as contractors begin rehabilitation of the historic pavilion and refurbishing more than 190 parking spaces. Construction is slated for completion early next year.

Regular City Commission meeting: 2:30 and 6 p.m. Monday, July 6, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota Sarasota County Commission meeting: 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 8, Commission Chambers, Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

“You can’t yank the plug over criticism. If it was that easy, we would have five new commissioners every two to three weeks!”

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“Just do what the consultant recommended. Didn’t the city pay him enough?”

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The ‘D’ Word

The Urban Design Studio is writing zoning regulations focused on form over density.

Can it change minds in a community fearful of high-density development?

DAVID CONWAY NEWS EDITOR

City leaders, searching for tools to help redevelop certain portions of Sarasota, have begun to dip their toes into allowing increased residential density, waters previously deemed too murky to wade into.

As the Urban Design Studio works on a new form-based zoning code for the entire city, it may be prepared to throw Sarasota into the density deep end.

During neighborhood meetings this year — a crash-course in form-based code principles for many residents — studio Director Karin Murphy and Principal Urban Designer Andrew Georgiadis have cautiously introduced audiences to the idea that density isn’t the most useful factor for judging new development.

Those efforts haven’t always been entirely successful.

Although the sample density increases would largely be limited to highly urbanized areas and major thoroughfares such as U.S. 41, some residents in nearby neighborhoods hit a wall when they hear the word density. The studio says that mindset has been fostered by years of development under the current system, but they believe it can be changed.

Eventually, the Band-Aid is getting ripped off. To put it plainly: The Urban Design Studio does not hate density, does not want to primarily assess projects on density and thinks high-density developments are good in certain contexts.

This thought process was highlighted at a June 10 workshop focused on addressing long-term transportation issues. Toward

the end of a presentation, the studio gave the City Commission a glimpse of a planned density bonus program in the new code.

Although it’s just a draft right now, the current figures would allow for density between 100 and 150 units per acre in the city’s urban centers and core.

The current maximum density in any city district is 50 units per acre. The Rosemary Residential Overlay District, approved last year to encourage development in the Rosemary District, allows for individual projects up to 75 units per acre, but the overall neighborhood density must average of 25 units per acre.

For developers, the density bonus would likely be quickly embraced as it has been in the Rosemary District. Jim Bridges, CEO of development group Jebco Ventures that is building a 180room Embassy Suites on U.S. 41, thinks higher density limits would make sense — and would allow builders to steer away from high-end luxury projects.

“I can take a typical site downtown and build 200 hotel rooms and only build 15 residential units,” Bridges said. “To me, that’s ridiculous.”

That’s not to say the Urban Design Studio wants to eliminate density regulations. Bonuses would have to be earned — by proximity to existing or planned transit lines or paying into city improvement funds, for example.

It’s all part of a larger puzzle.

High-density projects in walkable areas or near transit stops eliminate the need to devote space to parking and get cars off the road. High-density projects will increase transit ridership.

More transit ridership, coupled with developers paying into a transit fund, will help fund a more robust transit system.

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The Urban Design Studio has shared a draft map of what it thinks the city’s public transit system could look like if properly built out. The map includes multiple rail lines, a trolley system, redesigned bus routes and a waterbus. It’s a lofty goal, but Murphy and Georgiadis genuinely believe it could be pieced together over the next several decades.

With the density program, they think they’d begin the process of realistically funding new transit.

“That would be a way to start,” Georgiadis said. “To be able to say, ‘This is how can we get that 10% we need to attract the matching 90% federal or state funds.’”

Although transit use is light in the city today, the studio has gotten feedback that residents would be less reliant on their cars if they had better options. Still, it isn’t as simple as “if you build it, they will ride.” Georgiadis says the most important factor in attracting riders is reducing time between vehicles running the same route.

Sarasota County Area Transit, the subject of conversations regarding privatization over the past few years, doesn’t have the capability to add more vehicles to its fleet. That’s why the studio is encouraging SCAT to focus on a smaller number of shorter routes along major streets, concentrating its fleet and reducing the average wait time.

Even still, other incentives may need to be put into place. Georgiadis raised the idea of dedicat-

ed transit lanes — maybe shared with other vehicles at first, but maybe eventually only dedicated to public transportation — as another idea to increase ridership.

It may seem jarring, but the team believes knocking down that first domino will lead to more options.

“We grow the system by improving the bus, and then giving the bus the advantage at intersections and then growing the ridership,” Georgiadis said.

“Once we see that really starting to happen, then we can look at the next upgrade.”

“This is what we want to talk about as a community. How do we want to grow, and where do we want to spend these dollars?”

– Karin Murphy, Urban Design Studio director

Those “next upgrades” include trolleys on the barrier islands, and light rail along busy travel corridors. The cost would be high — more than $200 million to fund all of the proposed amenities, Murphy suggested — but she invited a comparison with the construction of a new interchange along I-75.

For the price of two interchanges, Murphy said, the entire system could be funded. It was up to residents and city leaders to decide which track they’d rather choose.

“This is what we want to talk about as a community,” Murphy said. “How do we want to grow, and where do we want to spend these dollars?”

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Late last month, like many visitors to Lido Key, Patricia and Joel Fein were drawn to a roped-off section of the beach that served as a home for hundreds of birds.

Thanks to a conversation with a representative for the Sarasota Audubon Society, the Feins received a quick rundown on the flock’s backstory. Last year, the beach became home to a colony of black skimmers, a “species of special concern” in Florida thanks to habitat loss.

Right now, it’s nesting season for the birds. The entire process — from egg-laying to hatching to flying — takes about two months for a black skimmer chick. Given the location of this colony, right near the first access point to the

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beach coming off of St. Armands Circle, it’s a source of intrigue for beachgoers. At the same time, that makes the presence of attentive human stewards crucial for the continued survival of the colony.

For about a month, inspired by their initial run-in with the birds, the Feins have served as stewards, volunteers who monitor the colony and inform beachgoers about the birds, for at least one twohour shift every week. They have no ornithology background; even now, they’re not entirely clear on some of the finer details of the nesting process. Still, the two felt

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Holley Short, the Audubon Society’s bird steward coordinator, helps recruit and train volunteers interested in watching over the black skimmer colony during this crucial nesting period.

inspired to help out after learning how vulnerable the colony was to human activity.

“They don’t have the option to say, ‘I’m going to move,’” Patricia Fein said. “This is where they need to be, and I think it’s our responsibility to help protect it.”

“They can’t speak for themselves, really,” Joel Fein added.

The upcoming Fourth of July holiday is a crucial moment for the stewards watching over the black skimmer colony. Holley Short, the Audubon Society’s

bird steward coordinator, sent a message to volunteers last week regarding a critical need for individuals willing to monitor the colony over the weekend.

The timing, Short explains, is unfortunate: During a period where the beach will see an uptick in activity, many of the chicks are reaching the point of maturity where they’re beginning to roam away from the colony toward the water. Although there are signs warning visitors to keep an eye out for the “chick crossing” pathway,

more needs to be done to ensure the safety of the young animals.

“There are huge boat races on Lido Key, and there are going to be personal fireworks set off,” Short said. “Any volunteers that can come out and help us and educate the public and be there for the birds — the more help the better.”

The presence of the colony on Lido speaks to how things can go wrong. Until last year, Short said, these skimmers made their annual colony on Siesta Key. In 2014, the birds abandoned a Siesta colony after a human-related disturbance. They made a new home on Lido later in the season.

Although Lido is a quieter home that the birds seem to have embraced, Short said there are still potential pitfalls that must be avoided. Because the birds are new to the area, many Lido

beachgoers aren’t familiar with the black skimmers and may not be aware of the proper process for interacting with them.

Some best practices may seem like common sense, although even those can be violated without proper education. Last week, Short received a report from a steward that people were picking up the chicks, a major no-no.

“It’s just a matter of education,” Joel Fein said. “The little I know is enough to tell (beachgoers) what’s going on.”

Making sure frisbees or beach balls don’t land within the ropedoff area is a simple task. Other problems are less obvious, Patricia Fein said. She was surprised to learn that kites flying near the colony could be harmful, because the birds might think a predator bird is casting the shadow.

The adult birds offer their own protection for the chicks, which lack the distinctive black feathering of the mature skimmers. If a human is getting too close to a chick, the adults may exhibit a “broken-wing display,” designed to draw attention to itself instead of the younger animals. If you’re less lucky, the adults might just divebomb you. Either way, they’re trying to send a message: Back off.

“Anybody who comes out here to enjoy the beach, they can also enjoy the birds — from a safe distance,” Short said.

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SIESTA STEWARDS This summer, Siesta Key beachgoers will encounter roped-off areas for birds nesting on Siesta Key. An area between beach accesses No. 5 and No. 7 was dedicated for a colony of least terns. In the last two weeks the colony has been wiped out due to natural predators. However, the area that was roped off for the colony has since been used by snowy plovers, a threatened species, for nesting.

There are currently 21 nests and eight mating pairs that roam the area.

Visitors are encouraged to keep watch for any snowy plovers, which range in size from 5 to 6 inches. Their nests also blend in with the sand. If you spot a nest that is outside of the ropes, contact Holley Short of the Sarasota Audubon Society at hshort@audubon.org.

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City, merchants talk signage SIGNS FROM PAGE 1A

LED sign would be a better fit, though that would also require an exception to existing regulations.

The code would only permit McCurdy to change an LED sign’s message once every 24 hours.

He is quick to point out that those regulations don’t apply to establishments on government property, such as the Van Wezel.

For a business that’s attempting to promote multiple events in a short period of time — say, a charity fundraiser during the day and a comedy show at night — the limitation can be an issue.

“Not only for us,” McCurdy said. “That’s the kind of thing that gives prominence to this property, which gives prominence to this whole downtown area.”

Perhaps luckily for McCurdy, the city is preparing to examine sign regulations in its business districts. The Urban Design Studio team, tasked with rewriting the city’s zoning rules, is working with Downtown Economic Development Coordinator Norm Gollub and other city staff to determine what might need to be changed. At the end of August, the group will hold workshops with businesses to get feedback on sign policy.

Tim Litchet, the city’s director of neighborhood and development services, says there aren’t a lot of cases of outright denial when businesses come with pro-

posals for signs. That’s because staff works with applicants to clarify what is and isn’t allowed, which typically produces a solution that both parties can live with.

Still, he singled out one recurring issue the city might want to revisit: a restriction on placing signs anywhere but the façade of the first story of a business.

At the beginning of June, the World of Beer location in the 1900 block of Main Street ran into a different problem. The city denied two proposed signs for the business because neither of them were on the tenant’s property. World of Beer ownership was upset by that denial, particularly because the property in question — a connected parking garage — was used by the restaurant and owned by the same person who owns the World of Beer space.

Still, World of Beer and the city are searching for other options.

World of Beer co-owner Mark Broderick reapplied for signage, and despite the denial, he had positive feedback for city staff.

“They’ve been very good,” Broderick said. “I don’t have any complaints about the city.”

Gollub has been working for nearly a year on a strategy for implementing advice from retail consultant Robert Gibbs, and the August workshops will be another step in that process. Most of the advice from the expert pertained to A-frame signs and other ways

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Last month, World of Beer applied for additional signage, citing visibility concerns regarding the business’s location behind Links Plaza. Two of those signs were rejected.

to allow merchants to utilize the public right of way in a manner that benefited both businesses and visitors.

“I think it’s important that there be a mechanism to allow sidewalk sales to take place, Gollub said. “We’re working on that.”

Currently, the city is searching for a way to permit businesses to post A-frame signs on public property, a practice that is currently restricted despite the city’s lack of enforcement.

Several businesses attribute the need for signs to the lack of a comprehensive wayfinding system downtown. A city-led wayfinding project has been in development for more than a decade, and multiple citizen-led initiatives have stalled over the past five years. Still, Gollub thinks the functionality of wayfinding and traditional signage doesn’t necessarily overlap — they’re more complementary than anything.

“Wayfinding is more direc-

tional, and then you’ve got the A-frame signs, which help to identify businesses and promote them,” Gollub said.

At least two downtown groups are working on a comprehensive directory map to help guide visitors to businesses in the heart of the city. McCurdy arrived at a similar idea, inspired by a map a local hotel created. If done properly, he says, businesses throughout the district could hang it up or distribute it to customers.

“I thought, ‘What the hell, let’s just make one ourselves,’” McCurdy said. “Make a nice map of our own, make it into a poster.

That won’t be expensive at all.”

In his eyes, there are a lot of simple solutions to the sign issues facing downtown Sarasota.

Despite the best intentions of city staff, he thinks existing regulations often get in the way.

“They make a mountain out of a molehill sometimes,” McCurdy said.

“Being able to allow merchants and storefronts to promote themselves better through signage and other means is something we’re moving forward on.”

— Norm Gollub, downtown economic development coordinator

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THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY DEFINED As our culture drifts from its founding, Americans have an obligation to keep that spirit alive.

MATT WALSH

We look forward to this edition of the Observer every year. We publish our annual “Spirit of America” section — with the hope we can capture and keep alive some of the values and characteristics that have defined American exceptionalism since our nation’s founding 239 years ago.

But as we see day after day, as our nation’s culture drifts farther and farther from its founding, staying true to those roots and values is becoming increasingly difficult. To use the refrain we often hear: We must never forget.

We must never forget and constantly should remind ourselves and teach our offspring whence we came; how this nation came to be; and especially the price our ancestors paid to allow us to be where we are today.

In that vein, we must never forget the two most cosmic epochs in our nation’s history, the two periods more than any that have defined the Spirit of America, a spirit that you can call a relentless burning for and relentless defense of Liberty.

Those periods, of course, would be the founding of the United States of America and, a century and a half later, the greatest assault on liberty throughout the world, World War II. We are reminded of the first, of course, every July 4 with the showers and explosions of colorful fireworks, regaled with patriotic music.

But how many Americans ever stop to think about those indelible words

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that a 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson etched into our nation’s psyche and culture: “We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Jefferson fortified that declaration when he added, “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” It was not just their “right,” Jefferson said, “it is their duty.”

Jefferson’s declaration rang louder than cathedral bells throughout the world when 56 members of the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, ratified and signed the document Jefferson authored: the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps the only other documents in world history that compare are the 10 Commandments and Magna Carta.

To be sure, Jefferson’s declaration became the compass and inspiration that gave the colonists the courage and perseverance to defeat the most powerful military force in the world. It defined the cause for freedom. It propelled the “Spirit of America.”

And it still does.

For the century and a half that followed, the people of the United States pushed ahead, on a journey of great triumphs and tragedies. The War Between the States marked the most profound challenge to the Republic.

But in terms of a threat to our freedom and liberty, the Civil War, as horrific as it was, was not as defining to the “Spirit of America” as was World War II. Except for the Revolutionary War, no event or epoch united the American people under one cause — to protect and defend freedom from tyranny — the way World War II did.

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Truman’s ode to the Greatest Generation

When President Harry S Truman addressed the nation two weeks after the Japanese surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, Truman told the story of how all of America embraced and lived the “Spirit of America:” “My fellow Americans, the thoughts and hopes of all America — indeed of all the civilized world — are centered tonight on the battleship Missouri.

There on that small piece of American soil anchored in Tokyo Harbor the Japanese have just officialy laid down their arms. They have signed terms of unconditional surrender.

“Four years ago, the thoughts and fears of the whole civilized world were centered on another piece of American soil — Pearl Harbor. The mighty threat to civilization which began there is now laid to rest. It was a long road to Tokyo — and a bloody one.

“We shall not forget Pearl Harbor …

“To all of us there comes first a sense of gratitude to Almighty God, who sustained us and our allies in the dark days of grave danger, who made us to grow from weakness into the strongest fighting force in history, and who now has seen us overcome the forces of tyranny that sought to destroy His civilization …

“Our first thoughts, of course, — thoughts of gratefulness and deep obligation — go out to those of our loved ones who have been killed or maimed in this terrible war. On land and sea and in the air, American men

and women have given their lives so that this day of ultimate victory might come and assure the survival of a civilized world. No victory can make good their loss …

“Only the knowledge that the victory, which these sacrifices made possible, will be wisely used can give them any comfort. It is our responsibility — ours, the living — to see to it that this victory shall be a monument worthy of the dead who died to win it …

“This is a victory of more than arms alone. This is a victory of liberty over tyranny.

“From our war plants rolled the tanks and planes which blasted their way to the heart of our enemies; from our shipyards sprang the ships which bridged all the oceans of the world for our weapons and supplies; from our farms came the food and fiber for our armies and navies and for our Allies in all the corners of the earth; from our mines and factories came the raw materials and the finished products which gave us the equipment to overcome our enemies.

“But back of it all were the will and spirit and determination of a free people — who know what freedom is,

and woman contributed to the effort to defeat Hitler and his atrocities and the Japanese Empire, which was equally as ruthless.

D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, Bataan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. On and on. The participants in these unimaginable battles have garnered our admiration as “The Greatest Generation,” reaffirming all that constitutes the “Spirit of America.”

But it’s impossible here to convey a sense of the magnanimity of 19411945, and the millions of stories etched into that generation’s memories. On this day, however, July 2, 2015, on the eve of our nation’s 239th birthday, in this little slice of America, Observer reporter-photographer Jessica Salmond has recorded images and pearls of wisdom of a few of our region’s own members of the Greatest Generation in our “Spirit of America” section.

Salmond sat with otherwise ordinary Americans, who are anything but ordinary. And she traveled on the 22nd Honor Flight mission to Washington, D.C., with 80 veterans who toured the nation’s war memorials.

“I felt honored to be the recipient of some of their experiences,” Salmond said. “Sitting next to those men and women and being privileged to listen to their stories really struck me. Whether they were involved in the military or something else, they all had a story to tell, and I learned something valuable from each individual.”

All of Salmond’s subjects embody and have in their bones the “Spirit of America” — that ever-burning flame for Liberty that, in their day, carried the United States to victory.

Our ancestors — from the Revolutionary War to the Greatest Generation — endowed us with the obligation that we must never forget. The Spirit of America is the Spirit of Liberty. It’s not free. We must protect it and spread it, especially among our own.

and who know that it is worth whatever price they had to pay to preserve it.

“It was the spirit of liberty which gave us our armed strength and which made our men invincible in battle. We now know that that spirit of liberty, the freedom of the individual and the personal dignity of man are the strongest and toughest and most enduring forces in the world.

“And so on V-J Day, we take renewed faith and pride in our own way of life. We have had our day of rejoicing over this victory. We have had our day of prayer and devotion.

“Now let us set aside V-J Day as one of renewed consecration to the principles which have made us the strongest nation on earth and which, in this war, we have striven so mightily to preserve.

“Those principles provide the faith, the hope and the opportunity which help men to improve themselves and their lot.

“Liberty does not make all men perfect, nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. And this day has shown again that it provides the greatest strength and the greatest power which man has ever reached.”

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Charleston is a lesson of grace and faith All of our thanks and respect, in addition to our prayers, should go out to the members and leadership of the Charleston AME church, to the African-American citizens of Charleston and to the leadership of that fine community.

the world how quality people live and act. They chose to lift up and exhibit to the world how they practice what they preach.

I would hope communities across this nation would pattern their planning and thinking after the exemplary standard set in Charleston.

The Civil War began in Charleston. Let us hope the example has just begun also in that great community to demonstrate that by using self control and grace one can show he is better than the perpetrators.

WELLS PURMORT SARASOTA

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Of the millions of citizens living in our country, there certainly are the small number of idiots who carry a grudge against a variety of ideals the majority of us hold dear.

You need just look at various violent acts in schools and churches, on street corners and elsewhere to see these crimes are not restricted to one subject, but are crimes arising out of the misguided thinking (or lack of same) on whatever subject with which some individual disagrees.

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Your June 18 editorial concluding that a separate business improvement district be created for the Rosemary District instead of including it in an expanded Downtown Improvement District is based on a false or implied premise.

Why would it make sense to create separate, contiguous districts when the goal for Rosemary is to make it a mixed-use, walkable and walkto-town neighborhood?

There is a significant commercial core in Rosemary, and much of the new development there will increase its residential base just like downtown.

Why fragment the effort to create a strong urban core for the city of Sarasota by reducing the funding and bonding ability of the individual organizations, minimizing the ability of each to create meaningful community improvement efforts just to satisfy a few cry babies who don’t want to share?

Why does it make sense to make Fruitville Road more of a barrier between two parts of our downtown when connectivity is really what we are trying to achieve? We must get rid of that dead zone along Fruitville Road and an expanded DID into Rosemary can help

dependent districts in the city of Sarasota, and I’ve never heard such a complaint.

The complaint from the St. Armands business owners about city garbage collection has no relevance, and I wonder why it is even mentioned.

The conclusion that an expanded DID would result in property owners inevitably being dissatisfied for being slighted has no basis in fact. There are about 800 BIDs around the world, and the research contains no such evidence.

This editorial does not sound like the quality writing I expect to see in the Sarasota Observer.

Sorry. Shame on the Sarasota Observer for suggesting caving in to the pettiness and stinginess of some self-centered individuals.

achieve that.

Why would we ignore the advice of the best research done to date on business improvement districts anywhere in the world by balkanizing our downtown? The Furman Center of New York University (New York City has the largest number of business improvement districts in the world — 67) concludes that bigger business improvement districts have bigger impacts, especially when they are contiguous.

Unified approaches to business promotion, streetscape maintenance, plantings, street lighting, etc., make more sense than breaking our city up into disconnected, unrelated bits and pieces. And they are also more likely to have a positive impact on the value of commercial property.

And what about the burden of the unnecessary duplicative administrative burdens of operating multiple districts that the city staff and taxpayer shoulder?

The editorial says that “a few members of the Downtown Improvement District Board have requested the City Commission form a task force.”

Actually, the vote was unanimous, including Ron Soto.

The conclusion that “Inevitably, the money is distributed inequitably” has no basis in fact. There are three special

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begun by the Southern states for multiple reasons. One was slavery. To indicate and infer the Confederate flag is not a symbol of white supremacy and slavery is intrinsically prejudiced, bordering racism.

Your “Our View” opinion does not matter anyway. The Confederate flag was held alongside a pistol in a photo on Dylan Roof’s website. It is obvious, because he recently murdered nine AfricanAmerican church attendees he thinks waving the Confederate flag and murdering AfricanAmericans represent the same innocuous activity.

So why are our elected officials allowing the Confederate flag (a known symbol of white supremacy groups) to fly on state property, knowing now that ignorant killers see that and think to kill AfricanAmericans must be OK?

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Neighbors should be praised for speaking out

It’s interesting that you carry the consistent refrain on your front page: “You. Your neighbors. Your neighborhood.”

After reading your June 25 editorial, “The ‘taking’ of your property,” it’s hard to determine the point of your slogan when you chastise and belittle neighbors that speak up and advocate for a comprehensive vision for their neighborhood.

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readers, I am compelled to share some facts that clearly got in the way of your editorial: You claim that the city “unlawfully” “infringed” on the owner of the Ringling Plaza Shopping Center’s “use of his property and denied him the legal use and value of his property.” But two separate courts of law determined that placing this 24-hour Walmart on that parcel would be unlawful.

Fancy that.

In other words, while your editorial states that it was this rascally small number of people who are to blame for “victimizing” the property owner, the facts have been shown in City Hall and in two courtrooms that this was not a political decision; rather, it was a black-and-white, quasi-judicial zoning decision — no different than if Editor Matt Walsh wanted to erect a 30-story casino/entertainment center with 24/7 full-nude entertainment in the lobby on his single-family lot on Longboat Key. Would Mr. Walsh be considered the “victim” if the Longboat Town Commission denied him his building permit for such a project incongruous with his neighborhood and the vision of the town? I don’t think many people would see it that way, but apparently Mr. Walsh would because it violates his rights as a property owner and consists of a “taking” by a mob confiscating his property.

You state the poor property owner can’t do anything with his site because it is “unclear what the city would allow on the site.” This is a blatant lie.

He can do everything his current zoning entails, including quite a large list of neighborhood-oriented retail options.

Will that maximize his profit as much as selling to Walmart?

Probably not.

Your editorial blaming the neighbors for Mr. Burks’ failed project is a continuation of the revisionist local history. In a similar vein as Mr. Louis Doyle, Mr. Burks did not have the entitlements he wanted, and he sought nearly a three-time increase in development rights.

Apparently immune to cognitive dissonance, you somehow also wrote, “Unpredictable property rights and land-use decisions have a chilling effect on economic growth and cause the price of real estate to rise out of reach of average citizens. We see that already in Sarasota.”

In other words, perhaps if you really do agree with this as well as the quote from “The Road to Serfdom” next to the editorial, you should actually be praising the large number of thoughtful, conscientious neighbors for standing up and speaking out against such haphazard decision-making that gives no predictability for land-use and property values, only serving to create a market for speculators and not people who want to live and build great things in our community and in our neighborhoods.

Maybe we’re not as dumb as we look, and the next time, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Burks and other individuals looking to cash in quick won’t waste their or our time and will actually look to do something within the realm of what’s legally allowed. And

if they want to deviate from that, then the expectation should be it is an improvement over what is currently allowed.

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right outside the hotel door — all in the downtown core. And, just for fun, once every few minutes a train pulls into the train station right in downtown. Now, that’s old Florida history and charm!

CATHRYN C. GIRARD, ESQ. SARASOTA

Plea to preserve Sarasota’s history too little, too late Ernie Ritz’s plea to the city’s Historic Preservation Board (“Downtown leaders revisit the past,” June 25 issue) is too little, too late. Sarasota has no history of preserving its past, rather it has a marvelous track record of bulldozing its past: The Lido Beach Casino and the El Verona Hotel, to name a few, and turning the landmark Kress building into office space. What good is the facade without some character?

The powers that be in Sarasota for the last 15 years have been all about bigger, taller, glitzier, more modern and contemporary. They have not placed any value on preserving the character that built Sarasota into a jewel on the bayfront.

My message to Ernie is, “It’s gone, it’s not ever coming back.

Sarasota missed the moment.

It’s sad, but it’s true.”

One small city in Florida that did it right is Winter Park.

When my husband and I need “a fix” of old Florida style and grace that’s where we head for a long weekend at the Park Plaza Hotel. We enjoy a beautiful park with benches to sit on, a rose garden to marvel at and a long street of great shopping

Pope’s point is well taken Although I am a non-Catholic, I find your rant against Pope Francis inappropriate and full of misinformation. The leader of the Christian world has voiced serious concerns for the enormous apathy of the West in its regard for both the international environment and for people in despairing situations over which they have no control. Yes: these are real issues that those “luminaries” you mention such as Rand, Smith, Bastiat and Hayek fail to address with specifics.

The pope’s point is well taken. For those who have much, much is expected, yet The Observer’s stance is not merely to look the other way but also to attack. Are reasons for the many social charities you support simply to see which designer is being worn?

Until The Observer becomes less superficial in its regard for real-world issues, we find it inflammatory at worst and vapid at best. Stick to what you do best: ads, ads, and more ads ... oh, and the tide tables.

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s the city’s sustainability manager, Stevie Freeman-Montes has to manage two related but distinct responsibilities. Internally, she’s making the city more efficient, searching for ways to reduce waste and energy use in the day-to-day operations of the local government. Externally, she’s getting to know residents and working on plans to form a community-wide task force to address environmental problems they’ve encountered.

Now two months into her new position, FreemanMontes talked to us about her background, her plans for the city and her assessment of Sarasota’s commitment to sustainability.

What led you to Sarasota?

It’s been a winding road. I have an undergrad degree in zoology with a focus on marine biology.

I was really fortunate to be in the Peace Corps and was in Yap, Indonesia, for two years. I love the marine environment. That experience in the Peace Corps got me interested in culture and low-impact development, so I got my master’s degree in sustainable development. After my master’s degree, I moved to Oregon, and I’ve been working in the local government sector for the past five years.

How do you find areas where a business operation can improve sustainability?

One thing I learned, because this position had been vacant for about a year and a half, we didn’t really have an operational sustainability plan everybody was operating under. One of my goals is to just create that plan, establish the goals and the plans to reach those goals.

One of my first projects was to do a solar analysis — how can we get solar on city facilities? I looked at about five or six different financing options, because it can be hard to do solar in Florida because of a lot of different policy issues. My next stage will be to make a recommendation on how we can move forward with getting solar on a city facility.

Is it hard to get workers to prioritize sustainability?

It can be. So far, I’ve interacted with so many staff that are really supportive and definitely excited, it seems, to have me on board to help move these forward.

There are so many great things that everybody’s doing already.

For example, energy efficiency can sometimes be invisible.

We’ve done huge upgrades to some of our facilities back in 2013, and some of that isn’t visible, but we’re experiencing significant savings from it.

Heather Merriman Saba

After relocating to Sarasota from the Portland, Ore., area, Sustainability Director Stevie Freeman-Montes was impressed by the progress the city has made environmentally.

Who do you see getting involved with your external work in the city?

I think it’s really important to have different sectors repre-

sented — and different socioeconomic spectrums, different communities and definitely historically underrepresented communities. I definitely envision private sector, neighborhood associations, academic institutions, nonprofit research.

I would love to have representatives from major stakeholders.

Based on what you know, how does Sarasota rate as a community as far as prioritizing sustainability?

I haven’t done any quantitative assessments, so it’s just me guessing a little bit. I think there’s a lot of great things happening in the community, especially in terms of the downtown core and growth and walkability and some of the communitywide conversations that are happening.

I think it seems like Sarasota is ahead of the curve, and that’s coming from outside Portland, Ore., where there’s a huge support for this type of work.

Coming to Sarasota, I was really impressed with the level of work.

The Urban Design Studio, all these different initiatives that are happening that are looking mostly at low impact development. But, I think it’s done in a way right now where we don’t have a lot of those quantitative goals that would allow us to compare ourselves easily to other communities, so that’s what I hope to work on.

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“I’m not against the public discussion, per se.

But when you’re trying to resolve a dispute, I don’t think that always is the best forum to resolve a dispute.”

– On asking the city to hold a private mediation session in June to discuss the future of the land.

“It seemed like the perfect solution. … Everybody that lives there would shop there if that store was there. I’m just convinced of that.”

– On the failed Walmart proposal.

“I’d just like them to think I’m a reasonable person that cares about Sarasota and would like to do the best for that property.”

– On how he’d like to be viewed by residents.

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Despite some recent controversy surrounding the future of the Ringling Shopping Center near downtown Sarasota, one of the property owners says he has no idea what will eventually end up on his land.

Louis Doyle, who co-owns the nearly vacant commercial plaza, has been the target of some venom from residents who opposed his 2013 proposal for a Walmart on the site. With the city discussing a potential rezone for the property, Doyle is attempting to reframe the conversation this time around, hiring a local PR firm to gather support for the revitalization of the property.

Some residents feared he was remounting a campaign to install a Walmart at the property, despite the City Commission’s indication it wouldn’t allow the construction of a traditional big-box store on that site. But Doyle insists he’s taking a wait-and-see approach.

Until the city presents its formal offer regarding the future of the land to Doyle’s attorneys Thursday, until the regulations are settled and he fields offers from interested parties, it’s impossible to say what the shopping center might look like in five years.

“The market’s going to decide what happens there,” Doyle said.

“People’s wishes for a certain type of thing to occur there aren’t necessarily going to make it happen.”

That’s another key element of Doyle’s argument, and a reason why he still stands behind the failed Walmart proposal two years after the company backed out of a contract. He says a significant number of people supported that project. Likewise, any new proposal needs to have broad community support — he can’t simply will a controversial development into existence.

The impending city offer — which will include the potential rezone of the land to Downtown Edge and Downtown Neighborhood Edge — is a response to Doyle’s claim under the Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights

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Ringling Shopping Center owner Louis Doyle said whatever ends up on the property must make sense from a financial standpoint — which means it must be something residents are interested in using.

Protection Act. The state law is invoked when governments “inordinately burden, restrict or limit private property rights.”

Doyle argues the Walmart denial had that impact on the Ringling Shopping Center.

Although his legal action has been criticized by the government — which has already emerged victorious in one lawsuit — Doyle says it’s his only recourse for making progress with the city.

“Without the Bert Harris claim, I don’t think we would have had a response at all at this time,” Doyle said.

City Attorney Bob Fournier is dismissive of the Harris Act claim — the city’s stance is the Walmart was not permitted by the city code — and of Doyle’s broader claims that he doesn’t have any options for developing the land. Fournier is preparing two lists to accompany the city’s response to the Harris Act claim: one detailing the permitted uses for the land with new zoning, and one listing permitted uses under current zoning.

“There’s a lot of reasonable uses of this property,” Fournier said. “There ought to be some interest in this site.”

As Doyle has suggested the city isn’t interested in seeing anything built on the property, Fournier says he’s experiencing the reverse of a typical land use dispute.

Normally, the property owner is arguing that a use is allowed by the city, and the city is disputing that claim.

“With this, the property owner’s saying, ‘I don’t know what I can do,’” Fournier said. ‘And I’m saying, ‘Yes you can! You can do this and you can do this.’”

Either way, the city’s response to the Harris Act claim is imminent — and Doyle will have a better sense of what he can do with his beleaguered land. When he’s prepared to come forward in earnest with a plan for the future of the property, he wants residents to know he believes he’s acting with their best interests in mind.

“I feel I’m just trying to do what is the natural thing that should occur on this property,” Doyle said. “I don’t think the natural thing is ever something that hurts the community.”

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WHY ARE YOU SO PARANOID? 6:15 a.m. — 1800 block of South Tamiami Trail Loitering/Suspicion — Narcotics: Officers received a report regarding a suspicious person.

They located a man pacing back and forth in the area. The man said he had acquired some drugs but didn’t pay for them, so he was worried that people were coming to get him. The man didn’t explain from whom he acquired the drugs when officers asked, and he left the area on foot.

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FRAMED 8:18 a.m. — 1900 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way Civil Problem: A man reported that another man threatened to stab him while he was walking on the street. The other man said he never made the threats, and didn’t even own a knife. He said he was given a bicycle frame that had been abandoned in his friend’s backyard, put tires on the bike and began to use it. He said the man then began harassing him, stating that the bike frame was his father’s and that he wanted it back. He told the man

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LET ’EM SLIDE 12:30 p.m. — 2000 block of Adams Lane Juvenile Problem: A parent at a playground said she saw children in the park skateboarding down the slides. When an officer located three children holding skateboards in the park, they said they never rode them down the slides; they just had them at the end of the slides so nobody would walk away with the skateboards.

Several other parents told the officer the person who made the report was out of line, and the children did nothing wrong. The officer told the children to be courteous when using the park.

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Curator of exhibitions at Ringling College of Art and Design Mark Ormond hangs pieces for “Defining Abstraction,” which opens July 10.

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Theater review Banyan Theater Co. opens its summer season with ‘Art,’ about a blank canvas that colors a friendship.

For Mark Ormond, curating an exhibition is about more than art.

It’s about creating a conversation. of gray and green, the flooring clashed with Ormond’s vision for ark Ormond thought the upcoming exhibition. He wanted the carpet was all to create a dialogue about Joel wrong. Besides being an Shapiro’s abstract works — not about aesthetically unpleasing combination the distracting flooring.

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HEART FOR ART

Ormond came to Sarasota for the first time in 1984, to interview at the Ringling Museum.

Whenever he visits a town, he

grabs the local newspapers to get a sense of its character. He was astounded that a town the size of Sarasota had five different newspaper boxes that featured six or seven arts writers. He knew he had found his place.

“Sarasota is serious about its art and culture, and what I love about Sarasota is this constant exchange of ideas going on in people in the arts,” Ormond said.

It took a little while for Ormond to find his path to the arts. Origi-

nally entering the University of Pennsylvania to be a veterinarian, Ormond, whose father was an insurance executive and whose mother was a research chemist, had an epiphany his sophomore year: He didn’t want to be in medicine; he wanted to be in art.

“I took architectural drawing, studio painting and as many art and art history courses that I could,” Ormond says. “I knew I

IF YOU GO ‘DEFINING ABSTRACTION’ Where: Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design When: July 10 through Aug. 5 Info: Call 351-5100 or visit ringling.edu

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“I’m always looking for new places to hang and exhibit work. An empty hallway is a new opportunity.”

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“You have to create a mood in a gallery and place and light the art in the right way so that supports the artist’s vision. If people are thrown off by the placement of the pieces or notice that lighting, then I’ve not done my job,” says Ormond.

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It was 1986, his second year as the curator of exhibitions at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Even though he was still relatively new, Ormond knew he needed to make that carpet disappear to make the exhibition successful. So, he went to his superiors and got permission.

The maintenance crew pulled up the carpet and placed it in storage, and a contractor placed wood flooring down just for the exhibit.

Ormond will go to great lengths to make a work of art shine.

As curator of exhibitions at the Ringling College of Art and Design since 1999, Ormond plans a year in advance for the more than a dozen student and professional shows exhibited each year.

Featuring everything from sculpture, painting and photography to a floor full of cassette tapes and tree branches, Ormond helps artists present their work in the best possible light — literally.

“It is theater, in a way, constructing and assembling an exhibit,” says Ormond. “You have to create a mood in a gallery and place and light the art in the right way that supports the artist’s vision. If people are thrown off by the placement of the pieces or notice that lighting, then I’ve not done my job.”

For the last 30 years, Ormond has worked with exhibits not only at his jobs at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Ringling College, but also the Greene Contemporary Gallery, the Allyn Gallup Contemporary

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wanted to be involved and around art every day.”

Ormond loves his job as the Ringling College’s curator because it allows him to fulfill that goal and pursue another — to convert the masses to art-lovers.

He doesn’t want people to attend an opening and never step foot in a gallery otherwise.

He wants people to learn more about the artists, to leave with an impression, to get involved.

Despite working at an arts college, Ormond isn’t high-brow about art. He’s more about accessibility than academia.

He wants people to see, to think and to feel.

MAN WITH A PLAN

To create contemporary exhibits that illicit these responses, planning is paramount.

Ormond starts in his head, crafting a vision for each show.

Based on the theme, he arrives at an idea for the exhibit, then adapts it based on what he finds when he visits artists.

He abides by the same rule he tells his art history students at Ringling College: Touch and see the art in person.

Ormond’s approach to his next show, “Defining Abstraction,” which opens July 10 and runs through Aug. 5 in the campus’s

With more than 30 years in the Florida and Sarasota art communities, Mark Ormond’s extensive career working with student and professional exhibits has brought a new quality and style of contemporary art to area galleries and local art-lovers.

“He’s taught me everything I know. We’ve put up museumlevel quality shows over the years. He really cares what ends up on the wall and what people in Sarasota are going to see. His reputation precedes him, and the people who care about art and sculpture know who he is. Working together has taught me how to ultimately go after my dream: opening up my own gallery.”

“Returning Home” by Elisabeth Phillipson is one of the local Sarasota artists featured in Ormond’s upcoming show.

Selby Gallery, is like every other.

He spent months visiting each artist in his studio or gallery to look for pieces that fell under the theme of Sarasota and Southwest Florida abstract art.

Then, pulling these pieces together into a show is one part planning, one part design.

Using floor plans of each gallery, he uses Post-it notes with the name or image of each piece to make sure everything fits. Once the art arrives, ideally, Ormond likes five days to hang and study the show before opening night to

“My favorite part of the process is seeing everyone come on opening night. The art is bringing strangers together for the first time to talk about life and art.”

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make any last-minute changes.

Ormond and his his long-time preparator and hanger Trevor Dienes go back and forth among the Ringling College’s seven gallery spaces that differ in floor space, wall height and lighting capabilities.

But no matter if it is a solo show focused on a veteran artist or the often chaotic scene at the end of the academic year where Ormond helps present an army of graduating seniors’ final projects, Ormond wants to make sure each exhibit — and its pieces — are something the community will talk about.

“My favorite part of the process is seeing everyone come on opening night,” says Ormond. “The art is bringing strangers together for the first time to talk about life and art.”

— Trevor Dienes, Ormond’s collaborator, preparator and hanger at Ringling College for the last seven years

“Mark juried our member show in January and he’s so knowledgeable about arts, from the historical to the local. When he spoke at our open critique to all our members, he helped them understand what other art jurors and curators are thinking. It was one of the most positive feedbacks we’ve ever had for a juror. We’re definitely going to invite him back for more shows.”

— Lisa Berger, executive director of Art Center Sarasota

“Mark is an incredible advocate for Florida arts. He always has an ear and eye out in the community. He loves to find and collect the cutting edge and find out what’s going on in the community. He has intense discussions with myself and other friends and colleagues about art and gets students involved in Sarasota’s arts community. I learned so much from him about art’s role in a community.”

— Francoise Hack, assistant director of collections at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

“One of the things I’ve always admired about Mark is his ability to inspire collectors and donors to collect contemporary and local work by talking about their interests and art history.

He has navigated the relationship between the museum, gallery and community and has been a pioneer in bringing really interesting shows that wouldn’t have come to Florida without his leadership.”

— Margaret Miller, director of USF Contemporary Museum of Art

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Above: Sarasota YMCA Sharks swimmer Keanan Dols was named to the Jamaican world junior championship team.

Left: Keanan Dols represented Jamaica at the CARIFTA Swimming Championships last spring.

SHARKS BOUND FOR NATIONALS The Sarasota Sharks will send 12 swimmers to the 2015 Speedo Junior National Championships July 30 through Aug. 3, in San Antonio, Texas.

The meet is open to swimmers, ages 18 and under, who achieved qualifying time standards established by USA Swimming.

Sharks competitors include: n Spence Atkins n Sophie Cattermole n Drew Clark n Keanan Dols n Danny Erlenmeyer n Matthew Garcia n Nancy Hu n Austin Katz n Campbell Lee n Carter Page n Hans Schroeders n Laura Hernandez-Tome Following the Junior National Championships, Katz and Cattermole will represent the Sharks in the 2015 Phillips 66 National Championships Aug. 6 through Aug. 10, in San Antonio, Texas.

During the meet, which is open to swimmers of all ages, Katz will be vying for a spot on the United States’ world junior championship team.

Although some countries, such as Jamaica, already chose their teams, the United States doesn’t choose its world team until the end of the summer.

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ARASOTA — Keanan Dols will soon be sporting a new look.

The Pine View School junior will forgo the traditional red, white and blue of the United States for the black, green and yellow of his native homeland.

The 16-year-old Sarasota YMCA Sharks swimmer will represent Jamaica at the 5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Aug. 25 through Aug. 30, in Singapore. Dols, who also swims for Riverview during the high school season, will be the lone Jamaican swimmer competing at this year’s championships.

The FINA World Junior Swimming Championships will mark Dols’ second international meet.

Dols also represented Jamaica at the CARIFTA Swimming Championships last spring.

“There’s nothing like representing your country,” Dols says.

“It was really cool (learning) I made the (world) team. I’m really excited because I’ve never been to that part of the world before.”

A native of Jamaica, Dols learned to swim in the crystal blue Caribbean waters when he was 3 years old. He joined the Sharks two years later after his family moved to Florida.

Since then, Dols has developed into one of the Sharks’ most decorated swimmers. But its his versatility and ability to move from one stroke to the next that has helped set him apart from his competition.

When he first began swimming competitively, Dols primarily

focused on the breaststroke. But when he was 11 years old, Dols switched his focus to the butterfly. And now, five years later, Dols’ signature event is the 200-yard backstroke.

“It wasn’t one of my better events at the time, but now it’s my best stroke,” Dols says. “It’s the easiest for me.”

In addition to the backstroke, Dols also routinely swims the 200 and 400 individual medleys.

During last year’s CARIFTA Swimming Championships, Dols won the 200-meter backstroke in the boys 15-17 age group, hitting the wall in 2 minutes, 8.91 seconds. He also earned a silver medal in the 400 individual medley, finishing the race in 4:40.14 to break a 36-year-old record.

The previous mark was 4:41.80.

Dols later earned a bronze medal in the 400 medley relay, finishing in 4:02.77 to help beat the previous national age group record of 4:04.23. He also finished third in the 100 backstroke.

“I’ve always been in the water,” Dols says. “It’s where I’m at home.

It’s where I am every day.”

When he’s not competing, Dols is busy training with the Sharks.

He trains six days a week with the team — four of which are double

practice days. Dols spends anywhere between two and four and a half hours in the pool, depending on the day.

Dols swims an average of 6,000 to 7,000 meters during practice, which typically consists of a warm-up, underwater kick set, sprints, a main set and a warm down. Dols doesn’t consider his time spent in the pool as work.

“It’s what I love to do,” Dols says.

Dols will spend the next few weeks training before traveling to San Antonio, Texas, to compete in the 2015 Speedo Junior National Championships July 30 through Aug. 3. Dols is one of 12 Sharks swimmers who will be competing in the meet.

Dols will then prepare to travel across the globe to represent Jamaica in the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships where he hopes to make a final in at least one of his events.

“It’s provided me a lot more opportunities,” Dols says. “I’m just looking forward to going and experiencing fast swimming and competing against the best 18 and under (swimmers) in the world.”

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“There’s nothing like representing your country.

It was really cool (learning) I made the (world) team. I’m really excited because I’ve never been to that part of the world before.”

— Keanan Dols on attending the FINA World Junior Championships in August in Singapore

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The Greater Sarasota Junior Golf Association held its second Summer Series event June 22, at Heritage Oaks Golf & Country Club, in Sarasota.

Local junior golfers competed in both nine-hole and 18-hole events.

Individual winners include: n Girls 12 and Under Aaron Whitley (92) n Girls 13-15 Katie Kroos-Roberts (81) n Girls 16-18 Victoria Cangero (76) n Boys 12 and Under Jonah Winter (75) n Boys 13-15 Jack Ohara (76) n Boys 16-18 Nick Kaufman (74) n Future Boys 10 and Under Aaron Setiawan (42) n Future Boys 11 and Up Ben Goldman (41) n Future Girls 11 and Up Jacqueline Putrino (40)

Rams to hold youth football camp

Riverview High will hold its annual youth football camp from 9 a.m. to noon July 7 through July 9.

The camp, which is open to all players ages 7 to 13, is designed to provide basic offensive and defensive fundamentals. Players will participate in a variety of skill stations, including route running, blocking, kicking and punting, daily seven-on-seven competitions and punt, pass

and kick contests. Campers also will discuss the importance of academics and making good decisions.

Sarasota all-star teams win titles Three Sarasota Little League all-star teams won District 16 titles this past week.

The Sarasota National 9-10 All-Stars went 4-1, defeating Venice in the four-team double elimination tournament.

Sarasota National opened the tournament with an impressive 17-0 victory over North Port.

The team later fell to Venice 15-3 before bouncing back to beat Sarasota American 8-7 to advance to the best of three championship game series versus Venice.

Championship players include: Luke Binswanger, Charles Davis, Jason Dela, Michael DiPuma, Justin DitzelChamplin, Zachary Fox, Justin Higgins, Sam Klanot, Tristan McGregor, Sam Mooney, Michael Patti, Brennan Petersen, Dalton Porter, Will St. Onge and Sean Sugg.

The Sarasota National 10-11 All-Stars also beat Venice to win the district title. Sarasota National beat Sarasota American 9-8 before falling to Venice 11-1. Sarasota National responded with a 16-13 victory over Sarasota American to set up a rematch with Venice in the championship.

Championship players include: Caden Brown, Reece Emmons, Jacob Eslinger, Chase Ferlise, Leo Fisher, Scotty Gordon, Brian Halloran, Paddy Hebda, Wyatt Plattner, Jon

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he first song Loretta Schwaner learned to play on the keyboard was “Happy Birthday” so that she could surprise her neighbor with her newly acquired talent. A year prior, that same neighbor had encouraged Schwaner, who was mourning the death of her husband, Tom, to pick up the hobby.

“After losing a loved one you know it’s never the same again, and I know he would want me to go on,” Schwaner said.

Schwaner attended a gathering at her church that included a keyboard performance from Fletcher Music Centers and decided to learn to play. At age 78 Schwaner is learning how to read music and play chords for the first time in her life.

“This is an instrument that plays like a piano or an organ but there are backup accompaniments to it and you can set it to your liking,” Schwaner said.

A standard piano has 88 keys, but Schwaner has 105 keys on her keyboard that are split into two levels. When she plays a song she sets accompanying music using orchestral settings that add additional guitar and string and wind instrument sounds.

On June 26 Schwaner graduated from Level 4 and has started lessons for the next level (there are 12 levels total). Lessons are taught in a group setting that allow students to socialize as well.

The average age of students is 72.

“I love it,” Schwaner said.

“People are wonderful. Everyone you meet are all in the same category and you play as best as you can.”

Ken Bistany, 81, recently completed Level 7 with his wife, Yolanda. Before taking lessons he had never played an instrument in his life. He started lessons because he wanted to join his musically inclined wife, and daughter, Jac-

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queline, during impromptu family music sessions, which they call “The Mozarts.”

The Bistanys have completed lessons for all 12 levels, but plan on retaking the course again.

“It’s actually very worthwhile because you learn new things every time you take a class,” Bistany said.

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The Grande Riviera condo sells for $2.9 million ADAM HUGHES RESEARCH EDITOR

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A condominium in The Grande Riviera tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. GRH LLC sold the Unit 500B condominium at 420 Golden Gate Point to Earl and Dorid Lamb, of Summit, N.J., for $2.9 million. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 3,906 square feet of living area.

SARASOTA The Phoenix Jules and Carol Green, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 302 condominium at 136 Golden Gate Point to Michael Plunkett, trustee, of Sarasota, for $2.05 million. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 3,785 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,275,000 in 2001.

Amanda Morales

Unit 500B at The Grand Riviera condo sold for $2.9 million.

4171 Roberts Point Cir A4123258 $899,000 Ethel Lovelace & Kaitlin Kuhn

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

325 Osprey Point Dr A3994727 $799,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

393 N Point Road 603 A4113122 $540,000 Diane Hager & Rosalie Phillips

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-918-1977

1225 Sorrento Woods Boulevard Nokomis/North Venice A4125487 $539,000 941-951-6660 Donald Geikie 941-356-8457

Avondale Susan Rakay, of Sarasota, sold two properties at 1830 Lincoln Drive to Lukas and Sharon Ingendahl, of Sarasota, for $2.01 million. The first was built in 1927 and has four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 3,606 square feet of living area. The second was built in 2010 and has one bedroom, one and a half baths and 702 square feet of living area.

They previously sold for $1.45 million in 2010.

Other top sales by area JUNE 8 TO JUNE 12 SIESTA KEY

PALMER RANCH

$1.35 million John Lenhart and Faith Griffin, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 603C condominium at 1660 Summerhouse Lane to Cindi Alexander, trustee, of Ontario, Canada, for $1.35 million. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two and a half baths and 2,400 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,331,300 in 2007.

$1 million James and Anne Sheets, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 9008 Rocky Lake Court to John and Oksana Bennett, of Sarasota, for $1 million.

Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 4,044 square feet of living area. It

OSPREY

$460,000 Brian and Elizabeth Frederick sold their home at 1981 White Feather Lane to Richard D’Amico, trustee, of Libertyville, Ill., for $460,000. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,600 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $422,500 in 2013.

$665,000 Lyall and Nancy Lee Perley, of Osprey, sold their home at 486 Yacht Harbor Drive to Russel and Stephanie Campbell, of Sarasota, for $665,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two and a half baths, a pool and 2,409 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $385,000 in 2004.

The Tower Residences Malouf and Therese Abraham, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1406 condominium at 35 Watergate Drive to Daniel and Arlene Fisher, of New York City, for $1,725,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,799 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2.1 million in 2005.

888 Blvd Of The Arts 903 A4113840 $575,000 Drew Russell

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-993-3739

8750 Midnight Pass Rd 403 A4118449 $574,000 Marlene & George Marshall

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-539-8850

1409 S Lake Shore Drive A4125553 $3,000,000 Kelly Quigley & Linda Dickinson

800 Benjamin Franklin Drive 602 A4123792 $515,000 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-0422

5950 Midnight Pass Road 302 A4112008 $469,000 Don Hughes, PA

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-374-1941

1227 Silver Lake Court A4125509 $469,000 Kaitlin Kuhn

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Holiday Harbor Henry Romo, of Sarasota, sold his home at 7768 Holiday Drive to Brian and Beth Jung, of Sarasota, for $1.28 million.

Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 3,445 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $584,000 in 1999.

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-356-9954

Venice 941-349-3444 941-400-7861

120 Whispering Sands Drive V-20 A4125532 Carol Thomas

Siesta Key $464,900 941-349-3444

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LOCAL LEGACY. GLOBAL VISION. 516 Tamiami Trail S 306 Nokomis/North Venice A4125653 $459,000 941-966-8000 Robert Moffatt & Peggy Wellman 941-374-0811

476 Partridge Circle A4106112 $2,995,000 Anka Eshak PA

800 N Tamiami Trail 211 A4111037 $429,000 Judy Wright

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Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-232-8041

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-504-6374

1900 Benjamin Franklin Dr # 2 A3996204 $380,000 Kathleen Griffin

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-302-3979

6723 Duck Pond Lane A4125276 $379,000 Brian Loebker

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-735-4393

2902 Captiva Drive A4125720 $355,000 Dan Freed

1922 Pebble Beach Court N5904384 $330,000 Jo-Anne Sckowska & Nell Taylor

Venice 941-485-5421 941-321-8975

1112 S Mccall Road 312 D5905558 $325,000 Shawna Wagar

Englewood 941-473-7750 727-420-4987

689 Boundary Boulevard D5905991 $299,000 Reatha Valera

Sarasota/Gulf Gate Branch 941-966-8000 941-735-0770

2497 S Milmar Drive A4125378 $349,000 Denise Mei

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-3198

Rotonda West 941-473-7750 941-875-4770

1500 Quail Lake Drive N5903478 $289,000 Daisy Hamilton Blair

Venice 941-493-2500 941-525-6525

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of June 15 through June 19, in order of dollar amounts.

C I T Y O F SA RAS O TA ADDRESS

PERMIT

APPLICANT

AMOUNT

888 Blvd. of the Arts

Remodel

Diane Setle

$160,000

1538 Flower Drive

Renovations

James Devitt Jr.

$67,838

1350 Main St.

Alterations

Susan McIntyre

$60,000

11 Sunset Drive

Remodel

John Hoey

$35,000

11 Sunset Drive

Alterations

Mark Repp

$32,000

940 Caloosa Drive

Re-roof

Ross Mercier, trustee

$23,500

37 Sunset Drive

Remodel

Kathy Lauder

$21,900

922 Blvd. of the Arts

Windows

Lars Lewander

$19,900

914 Blvd. of the Arts

Windows

Peter Knott, trustee

$19,600

621 Gillespie Ave.

Alterations

Linda Holland

$18,000

1814 Roland Street A4111601 $5,450,000 Michael Hays

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-376-1826

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PERMIT

APPLICANT

AMOUNT

1248 Northport Drive

Addition

David Leon

$174,640

199 Whispering Sands Drive

Remodel

Charles Kerr

$121,832

4517 S. School Ave.

Alterations

Dave Balot

$60,000

1192 Horizon View Drive

Re-roof

Jeffrey Gould

$60,000

4808 Peregrine Point Circle W.

Re-roof

Kenneth Dsilva

$50,000

2447 Vaccaro Drive

Pool/Deck

Ivo Kovachev

6157 Midnight Pass Road

Alterations

Christine Blake

$49,000

333 Canal Road

Pool/Deck

Charles Smith

$45,210

867 Siesta Key Circle

Seawall/Dock Matthew Rice, trustee $40,000

1040 Truman Circle

Re-roof

249 Mestre Place A4120504 $289,000 Daniel Carrozzo

2836 Yorktown Street A4121871 $219,000 Barbara May

4427 Maplewood Terrace A4124676 $182,500 Nicole Gibbs

2410,2411 & 2413 Casey Key Road A4119965 $6,900,000 Deborah Beacham

Nokomis/North Venice 941-349-3444 941-400-8462

Sarasota 941-388-4447 404-822-9264

North Port 941-951-6660 941-780-3817

5187 Bunyan Street A4125554 $279,200 Susanne Cosgrove-Lee

817 Montrose Drive 204 N5901764 $198,000 Janet Oberholtzer

3402 Tallywood Lane 7161 A4125485 $159,000 Pamela Wall

Dennis McKay

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

217 Casey Key Road A4121001 $2,495,000 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

Casey Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

300 S Pineapple Ave 801N A4110738 $1,999,900 Jonathan Abrams

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-232-2868

726 Siesta Key Circle A4121853 $1,999,000 Karen Cash Greco

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-504-6927

35 Watergate Drive 1004 A4110136 $1,895,000 Nora Johnson

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-809-1700

1515 Pine Bay Drive A4122724 $1,850,000 Judy Nimz

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-0196

285 Lookout Point Drive A4108793 $1,795,000 Victoria Stultz

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-387-5676

370 Sugar Mill Drive A4124781 $1,430,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

3591 Founders Club Drive A4114159 $1,190,000 Linda Driggs

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-2920

3142 Walter Travis Drive A4125297 $1,150,000 Melba Jimenez PA

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-3970

1030 Contento Street A4120629 $939,000 Mary Jo Violett

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-928-8474

6300 Midnight Pass Rd 1011 A4119867 $929,000 Kristina Talkie & Judy Arreola

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-266-8658

$37,800

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-400-9068

Venice 941-485-5421 941-451-6722

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-504-5019

4210 Breezeway Boulevard 422 A4125188 $257,900 Allison Werner

9330 Clubside Circle 3109 A4125642 $184,900 Marilyn Vespoli

12 Strathmore Boulevard 12 A4120976 $119,900 Stacy Liljeberg

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-961-3212

Sarasota/Sarasota Square 941-966-8000 201-926-7272

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-544-6103

Casey Key 941-383-7591 941-376-2688

Mid Longboat 383.5502 • South Longboat 383.7591 • St. Armands 388.4447 • Main Street 951.6660 Palmer Ranch 966.8000 • Siesta Key 349.3444 • Venice 485.5421 • Englewood 473.7750

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$49,747

1060 Seagrove Lane CH3 A4109519 $2,550,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

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#1 Agent in the Siesta Key Office for 24 years!

Palm Bay Club-Siesta Key

Move-in Perfect!

PRICE REDUCED

PRICE REDUCED

5966 Midnight Pass Rd. G52

Betsy

de MANIO

 Rarely available direct Beachfront on 5th floor  Dazzling Views of crystal white sands on #1 Siesta Key Beach 1 Bedroom/1 Bath, 905 sq. ft.  Oversized Bedrooom with 2 Queen beds  Excellent Rental with 3 day minimum, Turnkey Furnished  Two pools, tennis, boat slips $745,000 MLSA4107395

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Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate 5145 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota, FL Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate Owned and Operated by NRT,LLC

Gardener’s Delight

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

4683 Tuscana Dr., Sarasota      

Gated community of Tuscana, 2702 sq. ft.

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

Voted Sarasota Magazine’s Five Star Agent “Best in Client Satisfaction” 8 Years in a Row Coldwell Banker - International President’s Premier Agent

Susan Keal and Lee Byron....One of the top teams in the Siesta Key Office.

Put our combined 46 years of experience to work for YOU! “Old Florida” with a New Twist!

7304 County Line Road, 675 E

3 Bedrooms, 2 ½ Baths, 4 Car Garage 3,398 sq. ft. on 8+ acres in Pomello Park.

MLS#AA4125173

$700,000

Virtual Tour : http://epropix.com/7304cr675/

Call Susan Keal at 941.320.1689 or Lee Byron at 941.350.5542

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Kim & Michael

Quiet resolve. Remarkable results.

• Precise target marketing • Unrivaled market knowledge • Strategic international exposure

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941.376.1717

www.SarasotaFineHomes.com

KimOgilvie@michaelsaunders.com 1801 Main Street Sarasota, Florida 34236

BEAU CIEL

This corner residence enjoys 270 degree Bay views and City lights from the14th floor. Sophisticated interiors, 4000+ sq. ft. floor plan featuring large grand foyer, beautiful Neff kitchen, separate dining room, family room, 3 bedrooms plus office. With more than 1200 sq. ft. of wraparound terraces, this truly lives like a single family residence. Private elevator opens to exterior foyer lobby. Many amenities. $2,650,000

SILVER OAK

Hundreds of acres of nature preserves and scenic lakes surround you in this gated, ultimate location convenient to shopping, Siesta Key beaches, golf and the Legacy Fitness Trail. John Cannon custom residence with a terrific floor plan and upgraded finishes. Almost 3,800 sq. ft. of architectural detailing throughout with volume ceilings, 5BR, lots of living space, pool and 3 car garage. $725,000

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1237 Dockside Place

Perfectly located for the boater and beachgoer. 3 bedroom, 2 bath with garage and dock with lift.

MLS# A4114801 $650,000

5224 Winding Way

Contemporary, newer 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with screened terrace overlooking courtyard pool. An easy walk to Siesta public beach MLS#A4106052 $649,000

1273 Dockside Place

Ideal 2 bedroom, 2 bath within walking distance to renowned Siesta Beach with deeded boat dock and lift.

MLS# A3988650 $549,000

Your Resident Siesta Key Realtors~~~ Bob Ruiz~941.544.3299 RobertRuizRR@aol.com Sheri Lasley-Ruiz~941.400.4186 SheriLasley@aol.com KEY SOLUTIONS REAL ESTATE GROUP www.SiestaKeyNow.com

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The Pointe on Midnight Pass Rarely available 1,630 sq. ft.

2 bedroom, 2 bath end unit.

Spectacular 270 degree water views.

MLS# A4118450 $549,000

TR CON

The Crescent Siesta Key

Direct Gulf Beach Front in this fabulous 3 bedroom, 3 bath unit in the newest beachfront complex on Siesta Key. MLS#A4105740 $2,249,000

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1203 Dockside Place

Just bring your clothes and enjoy the Siesta lifestyle. Beautiful 3 bedroom, 3 bath end unit. Garage, boat dock, storage.

MLS# A4015565 $749,000

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PRICE DECREASE

SIESTA KEY

ISLAND LIVING AT IT’S BEST! Perfect for a year-round residence or as a vacation retreat. 3 Bedroom,2 Bath, three story with elevator waterfront dream home. Dock your boat, or take it through the Grand Canal to the ICW. A short walk to the village’s restaurants, shops and gorgeous sunsets!

MLS#A4113496 $1,290,000

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Aquarius Club

THIS IS PARADISE! This beautiful 2 Bedroom,2 Bath, PLUS A DEN (could be a third bedroom) ground floor residence.

Very tastefully and completely furnished. Prime location in the complex, steps from pool and clubhouse. Patio overlooks serene lake with fountain, cranes and sunsets.

MLS#A4110246 $339,900

Maria Balaz

941.780.5723 MariaBalaz@yahoo.com

1440 First Street, Sarasota,FL 34236

Harbor Towers Yacht & Racquet Club 5855 Midnight Pass Rd. #603

Now available and READY-to-MOVE into: Wonderful warm southern exposure makes this Feng Shiu influenced 1,056 sq. ft. 2BR/2BA, home warm in the morning and cool in the afternoon. Light & bright with a screened lanai overlooking Sarasota Bay and the Intracoastal. Amenities include a heated tropical pool, Hard-Tru tennis courts, gazebo, fishing pier and Marina. Pets allowed. MLS#A4121503 $399,900

Ken Kiesewetter 941.724.9222

#306 — 2 bed / 2 bath

1615 under A/C and Huge Balcony With view of the Gulf of Mexico

$675,000

kkiese2000@aol.

DOWNTOWN

The Aquarius Club

LIVI NG $

Perfectly situated ON THE BEACH, on the south end of Longboat Key, these exceptional condos are MOVE in READY.

659,000

An expansive seascape of the Gulf of Mexico awaits the residents of this pristine, tropically-landscaped and impeccably maintained Aquarius community.

There are only 58 units in this private paradise.

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Amenities include:

2BR/2BA Residence on the Palm Ave. side of 1350 Main St. with outstanding Bay views from all rooms, granite/stainless steel kitchen, marble in both bathrooms, resort style pool, fitness center, 24 hour concierge, guest suite, secured parking, perfect location in the center of Downtown Sarasota.

Michael Granston | Century 21 Dockside | 941.504.8018

Private Pool setting Private Beach Two Clay Tennis Courts Fitness Center Social Room, Gulf of Mexico Beach Covered Parking Best Management on Longboat Key

A Florida Paradise...

Robert Eric Snyder Luxury Residential Real Estate Broker REALTOR® GRI CLHMS, ABR, MCNE, SRES

941.706.5835

Beautiful 2 story home nestled on a spacious piece of property with just over 2 acres on a deadend street. The kitchen features granite countertops, built in oven and microwave , stove top, and granite island. Mother-in-law suite and master suite have full baths. Marble floors throughout. The fireplace room is tiled and French doors lead to a screened lanai. 3 more bedrooms and 2 baths are upstairs, with crown molding throughout and lots of closet space. New 5-ton AC installed. Close to University Towne Center Mall. Shopping, theatre, airport, restaurants nearby.

Email: sell@sarasota34236.com

Bring your horses. Move in ready. Owner Motivated MLS#A3997031 Offered at $479,300

Mary Jo Pribe, Realtor Atchley International Realty

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Call for appointment to view...

941-716-4569 421A St. Armands Circle, Sarasota, FL 34236

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“Judie has represented us on the listing of two homes in Sarasota in the past year. Her market knowledge, extensive network, and relentless 8254 Roseburn Court

$1,975,000 5222 Avenida Del Mare

$1,295,000 5300 Ocean Boulevard pH3

negotiation skills led to

$985,000

Exquisite custom home. Pristine, unparalleled quality and finishes.

Lakefront estate lot in gated golf community. 5 beds/5 baths, office.

Grand Canal access to Bay and Gulf, elevated home built 2005.

Gourmet kitchen, heated pool, 4 beds/3 baths/2-car garage.

Penthouse full Gulf views, floor-to-ceiling windows. Heated pool, tennis courts, fitness center. Steps to Siesta Beach and Siesta Village.

NEW PRICE

UNDER CONTRACT

SOLD

expeditious sales and great value for us as sellers. We look forward to working with her again in the future.”

-Robert & Marti Walsleben Sarasota, FL and Excelsior, MN

103 Sand Dollar Lane

$755,000 1258 Riegels Landing Drive

Updated 4 beds/3.5 baths/2-car garage, 2-story beamed ceiling, granite counters, wood cabinets, high-end stainless appliances.

lp $975,000 Deeded sailboat dock, direct access to bay. Remodeled 3,127 sq. ft.

3 beds/3 baths/3-car garage. Office, bonus room and heated spa.

5300 Ocean Boulevard #604

lp $949,000 Full Gulf-front, remodeled 2 beds/2 baths, 1446 a/c sq. ft., heated pool, tennis courts, fitness center. Wraparound azure Gulf-front vistas.

Cinema Tour: www.SiestaKeyTour.com

SIESTA KEY

a Leader in SaraSota reSidentiaL SaLeS Voted SaraSota Magazine’S FiVe Star agent: “BeSt in CLient SatiSFaCtion” 9 YearS in a row SpeCiaLizing in LuxurY Marketing and negotiation

941.928.3424

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A place you will love to call home...

• Panoramic waterfront views • Private, modern coastal home • Tropical landscaping • 177 feet of waterfront • Bleached wood volume ceilings • Spacious living room, dining and family rooms • Large pool, pool deck, covered outdoor patio • Open kitchen, screened porch for outdoor dining • Steps from a new, deep-water double dock • Private-entrance guest house • Just one mile from award-winning Siesta Key Beach.

Simply extraordinary!

MLS#A4101670

Joan Koplin GRI,TRC

$2,780,000

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941.315.3221

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Find Your Paradise on Casey Key European Manor

Offered at $6,900,000

This unique 1.7 acre estate reflects a sublime infusion of tropical tranquility and European elegance in 2 residences on the Gulf and 1 residence on the bay.

Deborah Beacham, P.A. Realtor®, CIPS, CRS

941.376.2688

DeborahBeacham@MichaelSaunders.com LuxuryPropertyInSarasota.com

Paradise Point Offered at $2,100,000

This home is a picture perfect example of care-free living in a setting right out of a coastal living magazine, with deeded beach access, a covered boat dock, and offered furnished.

Offering Creative Strategies and Professional Service with Exceptional Results

175991

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3925 Brown Avenue behind Sleep King. doggyhotel.net 941-554-4620.

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SIESTA KEY Condo: 1BR, sleeps 4, ground floor, patio. Walk to beach, shopping, restaurants.

Pool, laundry. Two week minimum. May through mid-December. $500/wk or $1500/mo. Also available from April 16, 2016. No pets. Steve 586-883-3392.

Cleaning

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LBK: 1BR furnished condo, water views, includes cable, Longboat Harbor. Covered parking, no pets/ smoking, Gulf/ private beach house access.

Boat dock available. Available July 1st - Dec.31st. $800/mo. +utilities. 248-231-3793.

SANDY COVE on the Gulf of Mexico. 2BR/2BA. Gorgeous! Newly Renovated. Nestled in the naturally preserved surroundings with it’s own private pier and direct ocean access where you can swim with the dolphins, fish or simply swing in the hammock and savor the beautiful sunsets. Just minutes away from #1 Siesta Beach. Summer Specials $1800/mo., $700/wk. (941) 349-8900 info@siestakeyrealtyrentals.com

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SPG

Schemmel Property Group

REPRESENTING

Most Amazing Properties UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Prestancia 4369 Boca Pointe Drive $1,200,000

Orchid Trace 6590 Wild Orchid Lane $1,195,000

AQUA 280 Golden Gate Point Priced from $2,895,000

Casey Key Casey Key Road $999,000

Prestancia 7460 Monte Verde $1,495,000

Palisades at Palmer Ranch 7128 Rue De Palisades $358,900

Joel Schemmel, J.D. 941.587.4894 joel.schemmel@sothebysrealty.com Sharon Chiodi 941.809.0380 sharon.chiodi@sothebysrealty.com

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Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.

Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate and neither suggests nor infers that Premier Sotheby’s International Realty participated as either the listing or cooperating agent or broker in the sale or purchase of the properties depicted.

Siesta Key | 4011 Shell Road

$7,990,000

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