Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization

With the construction of the new Live Oaks Apartments, they have closed Cantu Ct workers off from being able to exit at the traffic signal across from Colonial Oaks Blvd. Now, hundreds of workers have only one exit with a stop sign and anyone that needs to travel south on Cattlemen Rd will have to make a dangerous left turn across 3-4 lanes of traffic. The road is expected to be closed until construction is complete in 2 years, so something needs to be done in the meantime to alleviate this unsafe situation. This is a concern everyone here shares, please do not ignore this. It is far too dangerous for people to make a left onto Cattlemen Rd at rush hour everyday, not to mention lunch time and any other time they need to leave.

Friday night's rain event caused a back up of the stormwater system in our community. I believe the lake that our system outfalls into was not properly draining into the subordinate systems as designed. I believe that the county structure with the facility ID of CT_112016_026403 may be impacted by vegetation or storm debris. Can you please check the outfall and the subordinate ditches/pipes for proper operation?

Medallion Homes purchased the Gulf Gate Golf Course. They do not maintain their property on the outside of the barbed wire fence they erected. It's been well over 8 months since the last mowing crew. Please ask them to maintain their property !

Coyotes are living in the 600 block of Alhambra Road. The excrement picture is outside my front door at 603 Alhambra. They have been sleeping behind my home and on the neighbors front door mat at 609 Alhambra. I have seen two together. We have elderly single female neighbors living alone at 604 and 612 who have seen the coyotes behind their homes. I worry what might happen if someone opens their front door and a coyote is on the mat.

Gladstone blvd is a cut through to Bayshore. People travel down Gladstone to use the light at EnglewoodIsles parkway, because it’s almost impossible (especially from November-May) to make a left onto 776. The next traffic light after EnglewoodIsles parkway is not until Dearborn. We have many neighborhoods surrounding EnglewoodIsles, and nobody can blame them for taking Gladstone to get to the traffic light. Our speed limit is 25mph on Gladstone. We have people speeding Day and night anywhere from 45-65 mph on a 25mph street everyday. We’ve had speeds up to 90 mph too. This is an I-75 speed in a residential neighborhood. The speeding is dangerous with the school buses in the morning, and also in the evening. We have thousands of people who travel down Gladstone weekly. Our neighborhood has a number of reported incidents of accidents, dogs being killed, and pedestrians being almost side swiped. There’s even a FWC report from a bald eagle being killed on Gladstone from speeding. We don’t have street lights, and people walk, and bike, on Gladstone everyday. Gladstone is .8 miles long, and it’s a straight roads without any stop signs. People have used this road drag race at night . Somebody will be killed. We cannot take a deputy off patrol 7 Days a week just to monitor just 1 street in our county. We need the county’s help for safety of our residents and their pets. We have hearing and visually impaired residents, along with many handicap residents. We ask for a few stop signs to break up the flat stretch of road .8 miles long. Also, many years ago double yellow lines were paid for by an old HOA board. This is the county’s roads, as we aren’t private. The double yellow lines made this worse. The HOA will work with the county to resolve this consistent issue, before more lives are in daily danger. Many residents have reached out for help, and have gotten nowhere.

Last Friday Aug 2nd I reported this problem after 5:00 PM and a crew came out and placed barricades around the hole. In the week since, the hole has enlarged and gotten deeper. Nobody has been out to repair it.
Probably a storm drain issue with a bad joint allowing the soil beneath the asphalt and base to be sucked away until the road has collapsed.
Please repair the source of the problem and then the road ASAP as this is a busy intersection - Wilde Pointe Drive and Cedar Pointe Blvd.

County allows this property to continue renting by the week, quickly "archiving" valid complaints about this illegal rental all the while leaving frivolous neighboring issues pending. 604 Avenida de Mayo is supposed to be a single family home with 30 day minimum lease.

Once again this home is being reported as an illegal Airbnb. This past weekend it was used for a bachelorette party; multiple trash cans put out after the party - three days before trash pickup. We will continue to report this home until something is done about it.

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The 757 Gantt av. (ILW) property is still violating mandatoery codes everyday & night.
Sarasota Cnty. has issued on: 02-27-2020 a Notice Of Violations with (4) Counts. To the ILW property owners.
As of 04-02-2020, a Sarasota Cnty. official or officials have filed into the Cnty. records that this subject property is now compliant on all (4) Counts.

At this time 05-03-2020, see the photos and the mandatory Cnty. Codes attached. Showing that (3 of the 4) N.O.V.'s issued by Cnty. Code Enforcement are still being violated according to the specific codes language, everyday & night.

So, to each of you Cnty. employees associated to the required enforcement needs of these ILW violations at the subject property.
Each of you have sworn to an Oath as to enforce the Sarasota Cnty. local laws and the governing Zoning Regulations.
I'm reminding each of you ( Cnty. Admin., Planning & Develop. Director, Zoning Admin., Planning & Zoning Div., Code Enforcement Mngr. and the District #1 Cnty. Commissioner) that you do have the obligation to enforce ALL of the Cnty. mandatory ILW property codes as they're written.

TYPE OF ISSUE :
CONSTANT ILLEGAL VEHICLE STORAGE, OFFSTREET PARKING LOT