Guaranteed Hot Tip for the Week of May 15 - No, it's not Monday's City Commission meeting. Throughout the week the Florida High School Athletic Association will be holding it's all-class state baseball tournament at Ed Smith Stadium over on 12th Street. With all the attention being paid in the mass media to the Barry Bonds/Babe Ruth/"Should There be an Asterisk" conversation, the state tournament offers sports fans in Sarasota the opportunity to watch a lot of kids who have worked very hard all year compete for state championships, and it's an event certain to become a real milestone in their lives. It's all of the fun, drama and intensity of baseball at its best with none of the sideshow. If you missed it last year, don't make the same mistake again. Of course two local teams (Sarasota High and Sarasota Christian) will be representing Sarasota County, which is another great reason to go.
Head on out to the ball park, the event runs all of next week, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. So certain, in fact, that if you go and you're not happy that you did just stop by City Hall, show me your ticket stub, and I'll give you your money back myself. So play ball! And good luck Sailors and Blazers!
Head on out to the ball park, the event runs all of next week, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. So certain, in fact, that if you go and you're not happy that you did just stop by City Hall, show me your ticket stub, and I'll give you your money back myself. So play ball! And good luck Sailors and Blazers!
posted by Michael McNees at 5:30 PM
5 Comments:
Dale - Here's what I understood: The commission agreed to give control of the State Street lot to Isaacs Group, but asked that the agreement specify that whatever valet service uses that lot or a portion thereof be available to anyone regardless of destination. For the First Street lot, there is no such accomodation, so it becomes parking for the new restaurant on the corner of 1st and Lemon after 6p.m. The answer to your last question is yes.
jc - unfortnately I'm the only one that can start a new thread under this format, people just post at the top and that happens to be the baseball post - but point taken. More importantly, good luck to the kids, looks like the weather will be perfect on Friday and Saturday so we all look forward to them being successful both days!
While I cannot mildly understand the logic of the City Commission with our parking needs and the give away of State Street, I really cannot understand the give away of the First Street parking lot.
How can the public not understand what our commission has just done and how this is a slap to the businesses that have been functioning on Main Street through the transition. How can the commission give away parking for all for a development that has not even broken ground yet? So, the businesses on Main will have to put up with no parking in addition to two years of construction.
Thanks alot commission, except Ms. Palmer who sees the deal as it is.
Thank you Ms. Palmer for looking out for everyones interest and not just Mr. Simons
nikkisrq:
I do not agree with some major decisions made by the city commission in the past year. The formost being our lack of parking downtown and their lack of doing anything about it for the whole year. They gave away State Street (that could be a very large parking garage, city owned, no strings attached), gave away the First Street parking lot after six to one property owner, gave control of State Street to one owner before we have new public parking to replace it, did not purchase parking for Burns Court, delays on Palm Avenue - just build the parking, is what I say. Follow some sort of recommendations from parking consultants we have paid for. Clearly the Pineapple Square project will go do in history as a very bad decision for the city and there are many aspects of the contract that is just bad for us the people of sarasota.
I also do not agree with the process the property next to Payne Park just went through. While I think more people living around the park is good, the rezone was drastic and done with a lack of process.
Even with these major issues which I think the city commissioners are really wrong and crossed over a very unethical line, I still think a lot of good is being done also.
Why is it the "black" group acts like everything is bad, the sky is falling?
The city does a huge amount for neighborhoods and listens to their needs. It just seems many neighborhoods not only want their way within their neighborhood but want to tell every other neighborhood how it is to be done or else. Or else we have what we have now and that is many neighborhoods getting in the face of other neighborhoods trying to get their way instead of listening to the people mostly affected.
I wasn't sure if you were going to post anything for the upcoming week or not, so I thought I would wish you and everyone a happy Memorial Day holiday and remind folks: Memorial Day parades for Sarasota and Venice will begin at 10 a.m. at Main Street and Osprey Avenue in Sarasota and at Veteran’s Park at the West end of Venice Avenue in Venice.
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