Sarasota, FL: Conspiratorial cluster of Ninjas, Truthers, QAnon Theorists . . .

 How Sarasota Became the Conspiracy Capital of the United States

Mike Flynn

[Mike Flynn] the former general and QAnon icon lives just 25 minutes away, in Englewood, and is part of a growing cast of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, and election truthers who call Sarasota County home.

Overstock.com founder and uber–conspiracy theorist Patrick Byrne recently purchased six properties in the country, all at extremely inflated prices. Cyber Ninjas, the company with no election audit experience currently running the recount in Arizona’s Maricopa County, is headquartered in Sarasota County.

Charlie Kirk, head of the pro-Trump, far-right group Turning Point USA, which is targeting local school boards around the country, also lives in the county. As does Florida Sen. Joe Gruters, one of Trump’s closest political allies in the state and someone who promoted buses full of pro-Trump rioters heading to Washington on Jan. 6.

And let’s not forget Maria Zack, the conspiracy theorist who believes that the 2020 election was somehow stolen through the use of Italian military satellites. She also now lives in Sarasota County. Vice, 9.12.21

The Zieglers: 

Bridget Ziegler

 

Like all the other groups, parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty denied to VICE News that it organized the event, though messages shared by leaders of the Florida chapter of the group suggest they were closely involved in the running of the event.

 

Moms for Liberty burning masks in Brevard County, FL

Christian Ziegler

 The group was founded last year by Bridget Ziegler, a member of the Sarasota County School Board and the wife of Florida GOP vice chair [and current District 2 Sarasota County Commissioner] Christian Ziegler, who organized buses for people to travel to Washington on Jan. 6.

Christian Ziegler is also the owner of Micro Targeted Media, a digital marketing company that says “we do digital and go after people on their phones.” 

In the words of Chris Anderson, columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune, “Sarasota County has somehow become the Conspiracy Capital of the World."  Vice, 9.12.21 

 

Chris Anderson: Conspiracy theorists keep popping up in Sarasota County

Maria Zack is the latest mole of misinformation tied to our area. She still thinks the 2020 presidential election was rigged, and wait until you hear this doozy of a reason how: She is convinced that foreign powers used a military satellite in Italy to change votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden on election night. 

Zack, who in 2016 formed a Super Pac backing Ted Cruz and discarded Trump as incompetent, has claimed she presented her “ItalyGate” satellite evidence to Trump in person as he ate dinner on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago.

And, of course, she's tied to Sarasota County, which has somehow become America's Mecca of Misinformation. According to state records, Zack is president of a company called Nations in Action, which lists a P.O Box at a UPS store on Clark Road as its address. Herald Tribune, 9.14.21

 Chris Anderson: The secret moves of the Cyber Ninjas moneyman

[Patrick] Byrne, the multimillion-dollar moneyman funding the Sarasota-based Cyber Ninjas in the fantastical quest to find voter fraud in Arizona, thus handing the presidency back to Donald Trump, is a little on the questionable side himself. 

Byrne, meanwhile, is behind a pair of non-profits that have given the Cyber Ninjas nearly $5 million to audit 21 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Az. during the presidential election. The long-overdue results have been delayed because some of the ninjas have coronavirus. 

Now, it's not that James and Jennifer Vett were looking to sell their six-bedroom, five-bathroom cul-de-sac home in the Oaks Club in Osprey. It's just that Byrne really, really wanted to buy it, and in June, his company offered $3.35 million for a house valued at around $1.5 million, according to the Sarasota County Property Appraiser's Office, whose records revealed even more notable purchases. 

Byrne's company – originally called Manatee Investments LLC – bought two more houses and a condo in the Oaks recently, and he paid over $1 million above the appraised market value for one of the homes. 

In June, his company also purchased a 10,000 square-foot building on Venice Avenue, which was the former home of Bayside Gynecology. Dr. Michael Wolpmann said he was not looking to sell, but who was he to turn down $2.5 million for a building appraised at $654,300?  Herald Tribune 9.9.21.

 

Mike Flynn

From rural Sarasota to Trump allies' inner circle: Who is the Cyber Ninja leading Arizona's audit?

Many assume [Cyber Ninjas' head Doug] Logan got involved with the Byrne, Flynn, and Powell team through one of his contacts in the cybersecurity world, perhaps through his federal contracting work.

[Overstock CEO Patrick] Byrne and [disgraced Trump General Mike] Flynn also have Sarasota County connections. Flynn bought property there in April, and Byrne followed suit in June. Joe Flynn, Mike Flynn’s brother who is involved in the nonprofits funding the Arizona audit, has owned property there since 2018. Herald Tribune 9.20.21

"Sprawl at its worst" - Lobeck on Hi Hat

 

Hi-Hat Villages: Sprawl at its Worst

Attend the Public Hearing 

Wednesday, Sept. 8  1:30 pm

Sarasota County Admin. Bldg., 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

Email the County Commissioners

The Hi-Hat Villages Master Development Plan and Comprehensive Plan amendment return for a final public hearing and vote of the Sarasota County Commission this Wednesday,  September 8 at 1:30 pm at the County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. in downtown Sarasota.  This extreme urban sprawl, with no plan to handle the massive traffic pouring west from the development, deserves an outpouring of opposition from the community.

On June 9, the Sarasota County Commission voted unanimously -- with no discussion of the issues -- to give initial approval to the massive Hi-Hat Villages development far east of I-75, on the vast lands between Fruitville and Clark Roads.  That followed 20 speakers against it, expressing often detailed objections, and no speakers in favor other than the developer representatives, and County staff.

County Planner Todd Dary even opened his presentation to the Commission and the public with an outright lie -- it can't fairly be called anything else -- about who will pay for the millions of dollars in needed road improvements to handle the traffic from the development.  Referring to the proposed Master Development Plan, Dary stated, "It makes clear that roadway costs will be the responsibility of the Master Developer, not the County." 

To the contrary, the Plan makes the developer responsible for just a portion of the massive road improvement costs. The Plan even then goes on to excuse the developer from its share of the costs if it instead commits to “other traffic mitigating measures” such as "the promotion of telecommuting, ride sharing or transit” acceptable to Sarasota County and “that are intended to eliminate the impact from Hi Hat Ranch development on the deficiently operating facility(ies).”  (Paragraph 11.A.6.b -- See more below on that). 

Unlike the strong and specific objections stated by scores of speakers, Mr. Dary stated, "Staff has no outstanding issues of concerns."

After a cursory state review, the Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Master Development Plan now returns for a final adoption public hearing on Wednesday, September 8.

In addition to the traffic and other issues detailed below, a major objection is the change of 1,200 acres -- shown in lavender within the oval in the graphic below -- from a "Hamlet" designation of one unit per acre to "Village" at 5 to 6 units per acre, the same as the rest of the development, shown as blue in the graphic. [emphasis added]

 

Although the developer says that it is just expanding the area in which it will spread its densities, at no total increase, nothing would prevent a future application to increase it further once that capacity is added.  And in any event, the change would include moving the Countryside Line further east, increasing urban densities and traffic that are disruptive to the rural lifestyle now enjoyed by residents in that area.

Alarmingly, the developer bases its request for that density increase on a desire for "flexibility to respond to market demands."  If that's all it takes for a developer to justify urban sprawl, then there is effectively no limit to developers getting whatever they want, despite the impacts on the rest of us.

A longtime defender of rural living, Becky Ayech of the Miakka Community Club, has organized a campaign to urge residents throughout the County to email Commissioners objecting to this pernicious plan.  More information about that effort is at Becky's Campaign Against Sprawl.

After reading the additional information below, please attend the Wednesday hearing, speak if you can and in any event please consider adding your voice to this effort by emailing the Commissioners with your concerns at the email addresses in the link above or at:  Sarasota County Commissioners

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• Sarasota County is barreling towards rampant, uncontrolled urban sprawl east of I-75.

• Traffic congestion, tax hikes and other ills are inevitable unless there is a pause for better planning.

• The latest threat is the proposed Hi Hat Ranch Villages development east of the Bee Ridge Extension all the way between Fruitville and Clark Roads.   This massive urbanization of urban lands is for 13,511 houses, 450,000 square feet of commercial and office development, school facilities and a regional sports complex.

• There are several issues with the proposed Master Development Order and Comprehensive Plan Amendment, which include moving the "Countryside Line" further east to allow more density on 1,200 acres south of Fruitville Road, and impacts on area wells.

• But perhaps most alarming is the County's total lack of planning for the road impacts of this and other huge developments being allowed, all at the same time, east of I-75, under the Sarasota 2050 Plan.

• Proposed Transportation Condition 11.B.7 in the Hi Hat Master Development Order provides that each rezoning in the development shall evaluate the need for widening or building only four road segments.  They are two segments of Bee Ridge Road, a new North/South Roadway B on the east side of the development, and Fruitville Road between that roadway and Lorraine Road. 

• That is despite the fact that the Traffic Study has identified sixteen road segments which will need improvements to handle the traffic from the Hi-Hat Ranch development, including the need to widen Clark Road.  

• Further, Transportation Condition 11.A.6 of the proposed Hi Hat Master Development Order provides that no Development Orders throughout the development shall be approved if certain biennial monitoring of traffic impacts shows a roadway becoming congested below the adopted level of service unless one of two alternatives conditions are met. 

• The first alternative is that “funding commitments” are made sufficient to resolve the deficiency (with the developer paying its proportional share for the new capacity and the taxpayers paying the rest).

• The second alternative -- now get ready for this, because it is actually in there -- is that the Development Order gets approved if it includes “other traffic mitigating measures” including “the promotion of telecommuting, ride sharing or transit” acceptable to Sarasota County and “that are intended to eliminate the impact from Hi Hat Ranch development on the deficiently operating facility(ies).”

• That loophole is astonishing.  If the developer commits to promote ridesharing and telecommuting (perhaps with flyers given to purchasers), and “intends” -- intends -- that to be enough to take care of the traffic, and if County staff signs off on that, the developer is good to go gridlocking County roads in reality.   (“Whoops, sorry about that, but we really, really intended our promotion of ridesharing to keep the roads drivable.”)

• Policy VOS 2.9 of the Sarasota County Comprehensive Plan (in the Sarasota 2050 provisions) requires that each Village development “shall provide adequate infrastructure that meets or exceeds the level of service standard adopted by the County and be Fiscally Neutral or Fiscally Beneficial.”

• Instead, the Conditions proposed for approval on Tuesday are woefully inadequate to comply with that requirement. 

• And the County has not even done a study showing who is going to pay for all the road improvements that will be needed and are in part planned east of I-75 that the County Commission is in the course of approving.

• Recently, the County Commission even approved an amendment to the Future Thoroughfare Plan requested by developer Pat Neal to increase east County road expenses by rerouting a planned southerly extension of Lorraine Road from hugging the Interstate south of Clark Road to instead swing out to the east, through two nature preserves, for what staff acknowledged was to "open up more land for development."

• Ben Franklin and others said that a failure to plan is a plan to fail.

• More planning is needed in and for the Hi Hat Master Development Order, for the protection of the people both east of I-75 and all motorists and taxpayers, before it deserves any chance to be approved.

• Please attend the final public hearing on Wednesday September 8 and tell the Commissioners to put the interests of drivers and taxpayers ahead of just the interests of the big developers.

• And whether or not you can attend, please email the Commissioners to ask them to vote "No" on this bad move, at:

• Email the County Commissioners

Thank you,

Dan Lobeck
For Control Growth Now

Here Is the Control Growth Now Website

If you live in Sarasota County, come to the Public Hearing Wednesday afternoon

If you live on Stickney Point Road, 

come to the Board meeting on Wednesday Sept. 8.

If you're facing mega-hotels and their impacts on Siesta Key, you should be at the Board Hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 8 

If you live in North Port / Wellen Park, you should be at the Board hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 8.

If you live east of I-75 near Clark Road you should be at the Board Hearing Sept. 8.

If you live near Lakewood Ranch, you should be at the Board Hearing Sept. 8.

If you live in The Founders Club or Old Miakka, you should be at the Board Hearing Sept. 8.

Sept. 8 Agenda: Item 40 - Hi Hat Ranch

If you live anywhere in Sarasota County, come to the County Commission afternoon hearing on September 8 at 1660 Ringling Blvd.

Yes, the hearing is about Hi Hat -- a vast project of 12,000 housing units stretching from Fruitville Road down to Clark Road. But this and all the other supersized development projects in Sarasota County share one common denominator: The corruption of civic planning that gives the Board latitude to essentially approve anything a developer wants, despite severe impacts on nearby neighborhoods, on roads, traffic, water, and services, and despite the Comprehensive Plan -- the people's vision of sane, moderate, environmentally wise development -- which in fact is the law in Sarasota County.

40.	PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
(Public hearing) To adopt Ordinance No. 2021-007 approving Comprehensive Plan Amendment No. 2019-D, amending the Sarasota 2050 Resource Management Area map designation for approximately 1,258 acres of property located in the northeastern section of Hi Hat Ranch, from Hamlet Land Use to Village Land Use, and relocating the countryside line further east to include the village area.

If you can't make it Wednesday, here's what Becky Ayech recommends -- she has led the opposition to Hi Hat Ranch for months:

KEEP THE COUNTRY...COUNTRY HI HAT RANCH SEPTEMBER 8TH 1:30 AT 1660 RINGLING BLVD

This is the DAY.

First, thanks to EVERYONE who has supported this campaign!

If you can wear yellow, do so.  We will have yellow paper signs for you to hold up.. . . 

If you can't make it Wednesday, call and talk/leave a message for the Commissioners  The call center is 941-861-5000, ask for each Commissioner, Mike Moran, Nancy Detert, Al Maio, Christain Ziegler and Ron Cutsinger.  Mike Moran's cell number is 941-400-1140. The offices are closed on Monday, you can still call Commissioner Moran.  Start first thing Tuesday morning. Even if you can make it Wednesday, give them a call. I sent 124 email notices, so at the very least, there should be 124 phone calls. You might want to share where you live if it is somewhere in town.

A bundle of sticks cannot be broken.

Best,

Becky Ayech

Where to email the Board and other Sarasota planning agents

Cc: Board of County Commissioners

All Commissioners commissioners@scgov.net 

Alan Maio (Chair) amaio@scgov.net

Christian Zeigler (Vice Chair) cziegler@scgov.net

Nancy C. Detert ncdetert@scgov.net

Michael Moran mmoran@scgov.net

Ron Cutsinger rcutsinger@scgov.net

 

Question 36: Manipulation in Sarasota County survey

In 2018, Sarasota County citizens approved Single Member District Voting by a substantial margin. (Background here.)

Commissioner Alan Maio  

Now, elected officials are attempting to question that vote, ordering a telephone opinion survey to include a specific question about it.

In that survey now underway, a "policy question" is asked of voters. Here it is:

36. Sarasota County now operates with single-member districts. This means that the county is divided into separate geographic areas, creating districts, and each district is represented by only one commissioner. In the next election, Sarasota County residents will now only be able to vote for the one county commissioner that will represent the district they live in. Please tell me how much you approve or disapprove of your ability to vote for one county commissioner for your district.

⎯ Strongly disapprove
⎯ Disapprove
⎯ Approve
⎯ Strongly approve
⎯ Unsure/DK/NA/Refused

Our five County Commissioners specifically directed that citizens be asked this question (last year's survey resulted in 1,250 responses):

A citizens advocacy group for Single Member Districts has found misrepresentations of fact in the framing of Question 36.

Citizens for District Power offers another way to ask it:

36. Sarasota County has always recognized five districts, but only recently did the people vote to give each district specific voting power. In the 2018 election, 60% of Sarasota voters across all five districts voted to structure Board of County Commission elections by district. That is, instead of having five Commissioners elected by no particular district (and therefore accountable to no voting constituency), each district elects one Commissioner to represent its unique issues and needs. All five commissioners still vote on all issues that come before the Board.

Do you approve or disapprove giving each district the power to hold its representative accountable?

- I approve

- I disapprove 

Sixty percent of Sarasota's voters in 2018 voted to approve Single Member Districts. Surveying voters on SMDs before 40% of our residents have had the opportunity to vote even once in the SMD format is a derelict preemption of voters' experience and a calculated attempt to distort public exposure of this issue.

Citizens for District Power puts it this way:

The County has not provided an open public forum in which all points of view have equal time to present and to be openly discussed. 

At a recent meeting of the Charter Review Board, 38 citizens spoke in favor of Single Member Districts.  

Sarasota County's 2021 survey should not be cited as evidence of anything other than the county's own effort to bias and preemptively reverse a legitimate election decision by Sarasota voters.

The Fruitville Initiative as it was envisioned before Benderson

The Sarasota Planning Commission recommended approval of Benderson Development's wish to change the zoning of the Fruitville Initiative at its August 6, 2021 meeting. 

If approved by the County Commission, both Benderson and other owners of parcels within the Fruitville Initiative will be free to plan for larger, free standing retail spaces. 

As has been noted, the idea of bringing in commercial traffic to a place where people live and work goes against the grain of the original idea for the Initiative - an idea worked out in concert among three parties  -- landowners, residential HOAs, and the County -- in 2010-11.

In the early days of thinking about this project, three different depictions showed what the Initiative could be:

The Duany group of Miami offered this overview (pdf)

The California firm of Moule & Polyzoides looked at a possible interface between the Benderson parcel and the waters at the north end of the Celery Fields:

And the Hoyt architectural firm in Sarasota produced this video: 

Fruitville Commons 

Will any of these possibilities be realized now that Benderson has changed the rules? 

Siesta Key Coalition seeks citizen action vs. Mega Hotels

From the Siesta Key Coalition, regarding the upcoming Planning Commission hearing on the Siesta Promenade at Stickney Point, proposed by Benderson Inc.:

To SK Coalition Community Supporters:

 

As we promised in our 27 July e-mail, this note is to give you information on how to communicate with the Planning Commission, and how to attend the  hearing on the proposed 170-room, 8-story Calle Miramar/Beach hotel, on 19^th August 2021.

 

Emailing County Leadership, Timing and Content

 We are asking every one of our supporters to send an email to the Planning Commission, prior to the upcoming hearing.  We are all unified in our opposition to high-density hotels, even though some of our supporters have more concerns about one or more of the four proposed hotel locations.  However, we need everyone to address the first hearing for the proposed Calle Miramar/Beach hotel on 19 August.  The decisions made there will set precedents for future hearings for all four of the proposed hotels.

 

To ensure your comments are publicly recorded by Planning Staff in their reporting package to the Planning Commissioners, you should send your e-mail to the Planning Commissioners and Planning Staff no earlier than Fri August 6th and no later than Tues Aug 10^th, as it pertains to the proposed Calle Miramar/Beach hotel. The e-mail addresses are here.

As to content, we want you to review the list of Coalition Issue Statements, and to select one or two items that particularly resonate with you. We recommend that you use your own words, but you can cut and paste from the list, if you prefer.

 

Participation in the Planning Commission Hearing

 We encourage everyone to attend the hearing which will be held in the County Administration Building at 1660 Ringling Boulevard, at 5:00  pm on Thursday 19^th August  2021.

 

The Coalition will have only a limited time to present to the commissions, and we plan to have our Coalition leadership, and our lawyers and consultants kick off at the beginning of the presentations. We will welcome those who would also like to speak at the meeting, but we ask that you confer with a Coalition representative at the Speaker Card Desk, 30 minutes before the meeting starts.  

 

Thank you for engaging in the process with us...encourage all your neighbors to do so as well.  Please bcc (blind copy us at skcoalition@gmail.com) so we can follow the responses.  

 

Mark T. Spiegel

President 

Siesta Key Coalition.

www.skcoalition.org  

Email List of County Commissioners, Planning Commissioners, and Planners

List of Siesta Key Coalition Statements

Will this Benderson Initiative destroy the Fruitville Initiative?

To: County Planners and Planning Commissioners

RE: Rezone 21-02; SPA PED Rezone; Comp Plan Amendment 2021-B

To: Steve.Kirk <skirk@scgov.net>, Andrew.Stultz@sarasotaadvisory.net, Colin.Pember@sarasotaadvisory.net, Joseph.Neunder@sarasotaadvisory.net, Kevin.Cooper@sarasotaadvisory.net, Laura.Benson@sarasotaadvisory.net, Teresa.Mast@sarasotaadvisory.net, Neil.Rainford@sarasotaadvisory.net, Drew.Peters@sarasotaadvisory.net, Justin.Taylor@sarasotaadvisory.net, Frank.Strelec@sarasotaadvisory.net, Matt Osterhoudt <mosterho@scgov.net>

Dear Mr. Kirk, Mr. Osterhoudt, and Planning Commissioners:

This concerns the Aug. 5, 2021 hearing regarding the matters listed above.

I've heard from a variety of people who seriously question the changes Benderson Inc. wishes to impose on SPA-3.

Those who were involved in the development of the Ordinance for the Fruitville Initiative recall that its #1 distinctive feature was to disallow self-standing Big Box stores. The entire concept was of a walkable community not infested with giant trucks, a place built on MEC strictures in which workplaces and residences took priority. Retail was supposed to be local, not regional, in order to avoid a large volume of commercial consumer traffic.

I'm informed that according to the traffic study, the proposed 179,200 sf increase in stand-alone retail will increase average daily and PM peak trips 3,908 and 466, respectively.

But this is hard to prove - wouldn't the level of traffic depend on the nature of the retail on site? If instead of a nice butcher shop or cafe we suddenly have a Bass Pro, or Target, the traffic could become significantly greater in volume, drawing people from a distance. If this area were designed as a shopping center, that would be welcome. But the whole point of the Initiative was to create something different - local, walkable living/working neighborhoods. And the reason for that was to do something unusual, that set Sarasota apart. Indeed, I recall people in 2011 speaking about how as a "Gateway" area, the Initiative would send the message that Sarasota is not the same as every other place along I-75 - its unique attention to sensible, well-planned growth would be on display.

Basically, if that was the premise of the original form-based code of the Initiative, then allowing large, free-standing retail (requiring truck service areas) would disrupt the street grid and draw extraneous traffic in ways that would make a hash of that original premise. What Benderson is seeking basically undermines what started as a coherent, unified plan for a certain kind of community - sabotaging it, with County permission, into incoherence and conflicting goals.

It seems to me - and others I've spoken with - that what Benderson seeks is not a minor modification, but a transformation of the vision, purpose, and inherent nature of the Initiative. If this is the case, then we are not dealing with an "amendment" - rather this is a radical imposition of a shopping mecca upon what was conceived of as someone's living/working space.

What would it say if instead of creating a showcase for Sarasota's good planning sense, Sarasota County ended up compromising its principles and destroying that very goal?

Thanks for giving this your consideration at your hearing of August 5, 2021.

The Planning Commission hearing will be online here.

Tom Matrullo
Citizens for Sarasota County

Some background on Hi Hat and Old Miakka

Some history behind the Miakka Community Club and its opposition to Hi Hat Ranch's proposal to change Hamlet to Village overlay on its 10,000-acre property in Northeast Sarasota - from a resident, Jane Best Grandbouche:

The Miakka Community Club incorporated in 1945.  This is the same year the Turner family purchased Hi Hat Ranch.

The motto of the Club is “Conservation and Preservation of the Rural Area.” During the intervening years, the Club has worked to ensure that ranchers like Hi Hat had the opportunity to ranch. Hi Hat Ranch’s ability to be stewards of the land was supported by the Miakka Community’s continued vigilance in conserving and preserving the rural areas.

The Miakka Community Club (MCC) participated in ALL of the various meetings with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) including as a member of ULI’s Focus Group.

The Miakka Community Club also participated with written and oral testimony during both the transmittal stage and the final adoption stage.

As explained in all of these meetings and hearings, the Resource Management Areas (RMAs) define how the County would develop until the year 2050.  It is now 2021.  We are not half way there.  

You will not find in either the Comprehensive Plan or the Unified Development Code any reference to having Hamlets changing to Villages.  This idea wasn’t even contemplated or discussed.  Just as there was no reason to contemplate changing Hamlets to Villages then, there is no reason now.

If the Board wants there to be that opportunity, then that idea should be given public debate and due process.

The 1,200 acres Hi Hat is seeking to urbanize by changing the Hamlet overlay to Village overlay is productive agricultural land.  Since the Hamlet is a voluntary overlay, it is not necessitated that a Hamlet be developed there. Hi Hat Ranch could sell that productive agricultural land to someone else who wants to be in agriculture.  As farm land in the west and east dwindle, our produce needs to be grown somewhere.

The County recognizes the importance of agriculture as noted in FLU2.2.1 and FLU Policy 2.2.2 (a).

The County has a program to purchase agricultural development rights (DR Policy 1), so the Turners would get money for the development rights and then they could sell the land for agriculture production.

There is no valid reason to change the Hamlet overlay to Village overlay.

Please call and/or write the County Commissioners on this most important proposal. And please show up for the meeting September 8th. Once they paved over our rural area, it is gone forever. 

DENY CPA-2019-D

Critical Times: Corporate support for Voter Suppression and Tallahassee's squelching of free speech

Stories from the July Issue of Critical Times -- the info is important, local, and free.

Top 25 Corporate Contributors to Voter Suppression Supporters

Tallahassee - First in reducing public expression - 

Tallahassee also first in Voter Suppression - which local elected officials supported suppressing your vote?