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When you go to the polls on November 2, you will find your ballot festooned with six Florida constitutional measures, including Amendment 4, labeled by its sponsors as “Hometown Democracy”. If it were to pass, the Amendment would require a referendum election on any change to a city or county…

On May 6, 2008, Sarasota County electors will cast votes in a special election featuring two referenda. The first issue involves a charter amendment that would require unanimous county commission approval for future comprehensive plan amendments affecting lands outside the so-called “urban service boundary.” The second proposal, which is not…

The City of Sarasota zoning code says that if two lots, or portions of lots, having continuous frontage (i.e., street frontage) are conveyed to the same person (after January 10, 1974) and one or both of the parcels is non-conforming in respect to lot width or area, they will thereafter be treated as a single parcel. The consequence is that when…