Sunday, April 02, 2006

Palm Avenue Parking - Tomorrow (April 3) the City Commission, meeting as the CRA, will discuss what objectives they want to achieve as take another run at redeveloping the city's Palm Avenue property. Of course public parking is critical, and affordable housing has been discussed, though some question the economics of that at this particular location, and have suggested that building affordable housing in the downtown core, on the most expensive land, would be little different from looking for affordable housing on the water. Some of the earlier proposals for the site included hotel rooms, which are also important with Sarasota losing hotel rooms in other locations. Of course we can't really analyze the economics here, but obviously every objective can't be met - there's only so much land. What are the most important things to you for this site? (Beyond the most obvious of course, which is that the project this time is successful!)