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Now more than ever, Sarasota County needs Control Growth Now and Control Growth Now needs you. Please join Control Growth Now today. Annual dues are just $20. As a member, you get an invitation to our events, receive email alerts and help support our web site and other activities. Thank you very much for doing your part for us all.
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Saturday, March 27th
Control Growth Now
Annual Meeting and Luncheon
$20 per person
11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Bentley’s Resort Hotel
(formerly Osprey Inn)
1660 South Tamiami Trail, Osprey
(just northwest of the entrance to
Oscar Scherer State Park).
Featuring:
Lesley Blackner
President of Florida Hometown Democracy
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 Over 20 years of Service On April 14, 1989, an organization was born with the mission of controlling growth and development in Sarasota County in a way that protects residents, taxpayers and the environment. Originally named GEO and changed in 2003 to Control Growth Now, our grassroots citizens group has had a major impact on the growth and environmental policies of Sarasota County and its cities.
 The CGN Agenda
Leading state and local politicians are calling for weaker controls on development, to allow more traffic congestion, taxpayer subsidies of developers and environmental harm in order to spur even more of the overdevelopment that has crashed our economy. Control Growth Now has a six-point plan to counter these schemes, in order to protect our homes and our community.
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Green Light
to Gridlock?
State Growth Laws
Have Been Repealed.
Now City and County
Commissioners
Will Decide Whether
To Allow Developers To
Overcrowd Our Roads.
Tell The Politicians:
Don’t Give a Green
Light to Gridlock.
Click the green light on the traffic light above to follow this story...
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The Fruitville Initiative
How about a $350,000 taxpayer subsidy of developers, with much more to come?
How about funding that at a time when the County is cutting back library hours, law enforcement, parks and other public needs?
How about putting it all together in a series of secret meetings between property owners and public officials in violation of the Sunshine Law?
Well, all of that was approved by a vote of the County Commission, without a public hearing, on February 10, 2010.
The Broken Promise of Sarasota 2050
A Betrayal of the Public Trust
The Sarasota County Commission’s controversial Sarasota 2050 Plan was supposed to be a balance. The County abandoned the I-75 barrier to eastern urban sprawl which had held for decades, opening the rural lands to intense urban development.
In return, the Commissioners promised the public that developers would be required to make certain sacrifices as trade-offs, including enhanced environmental protections.
Now that all may become an empty, broken promise. A majority of the County Commission voted to excuse the first Sarasota 2050 developer from greenway and greenbelt requirements and ultimately all of the public interest protections in the plan are at risk of being gutted.
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