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Sarasota News Leader April 19, 2013 Page 57 didn't know that [this was Rowing Apprecia- In late February, the Suncoast Aquatic Nation Day] when we booked the flights." ture Center Association (SANCA), on behalf of Benderson Park, submitted its preliminary He pointed out that 2017 will mark the 55th bid for the 2017 event. The final bid is due in year of the World Rowing Championships. FISA, he added, is the oldest international May, along with a fee of $26,000, according to material supplied earlier this year to both sports federation in the world. county commissions. SANCA has estimated His team will report its findings from the in- that holding the World Rowing Championspection visit at a meeting of the FISA Coun- ships would have an economic impact on the cil on July 14 in Lucerne, Switzerland, Smith region of about $24.6 million. added. The bid will be announced on Sept. 2 Rachel Brown Hackney in South Korea. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMES OUT IN FAVOR OF 2050 OVERHAUL The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce has come out in favor of overhauling the county's Sarasota 2050 plan, and the organization's president and CEO will be on hand to defend that position at a forum held next Tuesday evening, April 23. vironmentally friendly, village-style development east of Interstate 75. The Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) has already come out swinging at the Chamber's position, arguing that 2050 projects are indeed under way and that one of the recession's important lesChamber board Chairman Nick Gladding sons is that "overdevelopment can damage a wrote to county staff and commissioners on community." April 2 that the Chamber's board had voted unanimously to encourage the commission to "There is a counter-offer by the [Public Inter"reopen" the 2050 plan, arguing that "no new est Coalition] that states if the County reopens construction has begun" under the plan, that 2050, they should consider more, not fewer, "jobs have gone elsewhere" as a result and protections of the environment and neighborthat, bottom line, "times have changed." Glad- hoods," CONA President Lourdes Ramirez wrote in a release this week. ding added that revamping 2050 is one of the Chamber's "key priorities." "In the end, the 'winners' will probably be just the print shops and newspapers with all of the Those issues will all come up at next week's advertising dollars that will be spent by opposdebate, which will feature Control Growth ing groups," Ramirez concluded. Let's hope by Now President Dan Lobeck squaring off "newspapers" she means digital weeklies. against Chamber President and CEO Steve Queior. Lobeck has been one of the most out- The Sarasota 2050 forum will be held at 7 p.m. spoken critics of the County Commission's Tuesday, April 23, at the Waldemere Fire Station, 2070 Waldemere St., Sarasota. plan to reevaluate 2050, the detailed land-use plan created a decade ago to encourage enCooper Levey-Baker