Posted on February 27, 2020
When it comes to the Manasota Key beach renourishment project, Sarasota County commissioners have some thorny decisions to make Tuesday regarding their portion of the project.
Chief among those decisions is how to reduce the share of the project costs paid by individual property owners within the project boundaries.
When 23 property owners in the middle portion of the project area on the Sarasota County side of Manasota Key objected and refused to sign paperwork to establish an erosion control line, that created a gap and forced commissioners to divide the project into a north and a south segment.
The result?
Higher-than-anticipated assessments to individual property owners since there were now fewer properties involved, and the south section being ineligible for the use of tourist development tax dollars since there was no public benefit.
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
