CITY BRIEFS
The City Commission is in session on June 17. Photo by Norman Schimmel
LINDSEY EDGES ANTUNES FOR SARASOTA PLANNING BOARD SEAT;
FORM-BASED CODE WORK APPROVED FOR THE CITY
By Stan Zimmerman
City Editor
The Sarasota city commissioners restored an
old hand to their Planning Board during their
meeting on Monday, June 17. Bob Lindsey
was their pick. It will be his third tour on the
board, which advises the City Commission on
planning decisions.
New Urbanism — or a more walkable downtown environment.
Lindsey received three of five commission
votes to secure the position. Mayor Shannon
Snyder and Commissioners Suzanne Atwell
and Paul Caragiulo supported him, while Vice
Mayor Willie Shaw and Commissioner Susan
Lindsey, who has lived in Sarasota for 63 Chapman voted for Cathy Antunes, a 2010
years, is the scion of the family that formerly candidate for County Commission.
owned The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is
extremely well versed in downtown planning CITY OKS ZONING 'DESIGN STUDIO'
issues, having served on the Planning Board A three-year effort begins next month to reduring the development of a downtown plan write the City of Sarasota's zoning code. It
in the 1980s called RUDAT, and again in 2002 would replace the current code, which dates
for the Andres Duany plan that focused on from 1974.
