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Protecting, Preserving and Enhancing Our Islands

Our barrier islands are significant to the vitality of our community.   Amenities such as Lido beach, our parks, our residential neighborhoods and St. Armand's businesses and restaurants provide a sought-after place to both visit and live.  LKRA has and will continue to work with the City of Sarasota in both the development and enforcement of their planning and zoning tools to protect our barrier islands. We monitor proposed projects and activities that may directly affect our members and advocate in support of that project or a modification to that project that will be in the best interest of our residents.  We are open to and encourage all developers and others advocating change to work with our association. 

Upcoming Development Projects and Activities

We are currently monitoring:

  • Lido Beach Dunes Project
  • Holiday Inn Renovation
  • South Lido MURT
  • Rosewood Residences
  • Sandcastle Resort
  • Coon Key "Little Ringling" Bridge

Island Planning and Zoning

Lido Beach Dunes Project

With state and federal grant funds the City of Sarasota is planning a dune construction project on Lido Beach.  The goal is to offer protection from a 25-year storm by adding another layer of protection for the beach and adjacent properties in the area where new sand was added with the recent re-nourishment.  The City on January 15, 2022 made a presentation to the LKRA members.

Current Status (as of April 2023)

  • The project permits are being issued. Taylor Engineering will put together final drawings and intents to do another round of working with each property. 
  • Construction, with new sand being trucked in, will start once that has taken place. Once started the project will take 2-3 months. At this point the schedule is projected to be the latter half of 2023. 

Holiday Inn - Sarasota Renovations

Ocean Properties has announced that the Holiday Inn will undergo major renovations.  The hotel will leave the Holiday Inn brand and join Ocean Properties "Opal Collection".  Transforming the existing hotel into a boutique hotel will take 6-9 months.

  Current Status (as of April 2023)

The hotel is scheduled to close May 9, 2023.

South Lido Multi-Use Recreational Trail (MURT)

The Multi Use Recreational Trail (MURT) at Ted Sperling Park at South Lido Beach will consist of an approximately 4.500-foot-long trail utilizing boardwalks and other fixed surfaces to provide safe, functional pedestrian and bicyclist connectivity between the Ted Sperling Nature Pard at 190 Taft Drive and South Lido Beach, at 2201 Benjamin Franklin Drive.  In addition to providing recreational opportunities, the MURT will define a designated traffic path, thereby offering protection for sensitive ecological features and habitats in surrounding areas.  At estimated $88,000 in project management fees are currently budgeted with the remaining costs funded by the RESTORE Act funding, Sarasota County has identified this as a fiscal 2023 Project.

 Current Status (as of April 2023)

Sarasota DRC has this on their April 19th Agenda.   Click Here to View Application Materials    Click Here to View Response to Completeness Review Comments

Rosewood Residences Lido Key

The City Commission has given Ronto Group a zoning variance to build a five-star, hotel-branded 65 unit condominium on the property formerly housing Coquina and Gulf Beach Resorts.  Designed for eight floors above parking, it will contain a private beach club with accessory amenities including pools, a poolside pavilion, sports bar, bocce lawn, private theater, private restaurant, storage, pet park, and administrative space and provide a new public beach access easement.  Rosewood (owned by Chow Tai Fook) will manage the property. The developer will be required to incorporate the existing Gulf Beach Resort Motel historic designation sign into the redevelopment of the property.  The project team estimates the construction value of the project at $125 million and is targeting a completion date in winter 2024.  Sales Video 

Current Status (as of April 2023)

Applicant Resubmittal, DRC 8/17/22. Partial sign-off, continues to work through the permitting process.  They are also actively pre-selling units. Once a critical threshold of units are under contract and permits issued, construction may begin.

Sandcastle Resort at Lido Beach

The City Commission gave Ocean Properties the owner of the Sandcastle site plan approval for redevelopment to a 304 room luxury resort hotel with restaurants & amenities.

 Current Status (as of April 2023)

The developer has confirmed they are working on detail plans and will submit those to the City in the future, but most likely not start demolition until at least 2024.

Replacing Coon Key Bridge

Started in 2019, FDOT is conducting a Project Development and Environment (PD&E) study to evaluate replacement alternatives for the Little Ringling bridges on State Road (SR) 789 over Coon Key waterway for a distance of approximately three quarters of a mile. Replacement alternatives considered may include twin bridges or a single bridge, as well as bicycle and pedestrian accommodations.  FDOT conducted public workshops on April 5 and 7th.

  Est. PD&E Completion Date: Late 2023.

 Informative Links: 

    About the Project and the FAQs

Contact:   LKRA   PO Box 884   Sarasota FL 34230    lidokeyresidents@gmail.com

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LKRA's Next Meet & Greet, Tuesday June 13th @ the Sandcastle

June's Meet & Greet location will again be at the Sandcastle Resort. 5:00 pm, Tuesday, June 13th.  Come and meet your neighbors.

 

Bird Steward Training

 Learn how to be an effective bird steward of our beach. Next training session will be held virtually on Wednesday, June 21st starting at 7pm.

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