Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Property owners pay for beach renourishment
A letter writer on April 5 was mistaken in stating that Sarasota County taxpayers pay for beach renourishment on private beaches (“Tit for tat to homeowners blocking beach”). There is a special taxing district that imposes a tax on private beach owners when renourishment occurs.
The fact is, Siesta Key is Sarasota County’s “cash cow.” Siesta property owners pay more in taxes than they receive in government services. We are a donor community that supports Sarasota County, not the other way around.
About 80% of the county’s beaches are in private hands. These beach owners have to deal with increasingly aggressive tourists, damage to private property and public trash. Tourists have used private property as bathrooms.
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4 months ago Share Gary Kompothecras is proposing a 120-bed hotel and a five story garage along Old Stickney Point Road.
For more than two hours, nearly 100 residents argued over a proposal for a 120-unit hotel on South Siesta Key, likely foreshadowing the approval process ahead.
The proposal is one of three that requests changes to density and transient accommodations on the Key, which many residents fear will change the nature of the island and exacerbate traffic on one of the Key’s main entry points.
The seven-story hotel is proposed on just more than an acre owned by Gary Kompothecras on Old Stickney Point Road. A five-story parking garage would be built across the street.