REASSERTING THEIR REASONING
Commissioners Joe Barbetta and Christine Robinson listen to a presentation earlier this year. File photo
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DECLINE A PLANNING COMMISSION
MEMBER'S SUGGESTION FOR HIS BOARD TO BE MORE ENGAGED IN
THE REVISING OF THE 2050 PLAN
By Rachel Brown Hackney
Editor
Roland Piccone is the only remaining mem- he began having second thoughts on a vote
ber of the Sarasota Planning Commission who the County Commission took on May 8.
worked on the county's 2050 Plan from its in"We are, in fact, designated as the local planception.
ning agency," he told the county commissionAnd when he started looking over all the ma- ers during a joint meeting they hosted with the
terials he had accumuplanning commissionlated on that process
Absolutely no way is the Planning ers on May 22.
since 1999 — a vision Commission or the public going to be cut
"And the statute is very
for creating more out of this.
clear on what the local
walkable communities
Charles Hines
planning agency does,"
with greener spaces
Commissioner
Sarasota County
east of Interstate 75 —
Piccone continued.
