Sarasota Livin'

Thank you for reporting on this important vote. The Planning Board clearly saw it as a "test case" of how far successful neighborhood businesses should be allowed to encroach into a residential neighborhood.

Thanks also go to the City Planning staff for recommending against approval of this proposed comprehensive plan amendment. Most important, we should recognize all of the neighbors and neighborhood leaders from neighborhoods throughout the city who showed up to lend their support to the Hudson Bayou Neighborhood and the McClelland Park Neighborhood.

We need to support each other in assuring that the scale of commercial projects next to residential neighborhoods does not overwhelm and destroy the quality of life of people in their homes.