August 2011 Volume 29, Number 8 The To FREE Meadoword MeaThe doword PUBLISHED BY THE MEADOWS CO mm UNITY ASSO C IATION TO PROVIDE INFOR M ATION AND EDU C ATION FOR MEADOWS RESIDENTS MANASOTA, MANASOTA, FL U.S. POSTAGE PRESORTED STANDARD PERMIT 61 PAID 2 The Meadoword • August 2011 MCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Assembly Committee Anthony Sawyer, President Bob Friedlander, Vice President No Assembly of Property Owners meeting in August Ginny Coveney, Treasurer By Claire Coyle—Chairperson Bill Hoegel, Secretary Dr. Bill Grubb Jerry Hilmes Delegates, please mark your Joy Howes calendars for the September 21 Jo Evans meeting at 7:00 pm in the Lakeside Who do you want Paul Mercier Room of the Meadows Community Center. to hear from? COMMITTEES This meeting is an important Do you have a topic Assembly of Property Owners one because we need to elect the of interest to you and Claire Coyle, Chairperson Search and Screening Committee, your neighbors? Anthony Sawyer, Liaison Next Assembly who recommends a slate of Budget and Finance candidates to run for the Board of The Executive Committee September 21 • 7:00 pm Jerry Schwarzkopf, Chairperson of the Assembly is currently Bob Friedlander, Liaison Directors of the MCA. Please plan Guest Speaker to attend. working to identify speakers Community Activities Attorney The September speaker will be for next year and would like Ginny Coveney, Chairperson Charla Burchett, Esq attorney Charla Burchett, Esq. She your ideas and suggestions. Emergency Preparedness will discuss estate planning issues Everyone is invited to stay Dr. Harry Shannon, Chairperson Call Claire Coyle, 941-371-8925, for coffee, refreshments, & Dr. Bill Grubb, Liaison and ideas. email [email protected] conversation after the meeting Maintenance All Assembly meetings are Bob Friedlander, Cochairperson open to all Meadows residents. 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University Town Center would be SIPOC stands for Sarasota jeopardized if the County insisted Interstate Park of Commerce, on completion of the units. now more commonly referred Squarely left in place, to as Benderson Development’s however, are the requirements University Town Center, located at that Benderson build two hotels the southwest quadrant of I-75 and and another 100,000 square feet University Parkway, north and east of commercial space. Under the of The Meadows. already existing agreement, the University Town Center is a first hotel must be constructed by mixed-use project (retail, hotel, September 2014, and the second office, and residential) that will one, 21 months later. eventually contain 1,900,000 So what happens next? square feet of Gross Leasable Area (GLA) on a 276-acre site. Benderson still has to The project started with submit a site plan to the County a setback—the Sarasota Commissioners for review and County Planning Commission approval—that is, the location recommended denial of of the structures to be built. The “Old Fashioned Service” Benderson’s plans some four years submission and review of that plan Experienced Rental and Sales Specialists ago. will take place in the near future. who KNOW The Meadows! After extensive presentations So, the project, which has been Seasonal and Annual rentals available. For personal made by Benderson Development’s planned for the last four years, will service, call the experts you already know… experts and rigorous discussions soon get off the ground. between the County Commis- And, what about Cattlemen Road? Betty Ann Sullivan, Peg Schmitt, sioners and Benderson, the and Shirley Cuddy plan was approved. In fact, in While the completion of the connection with the approval, University Town Center is of great You know where we are … Benderson agreed to build interest to The Meadows, what Look for the car! some 437 community housing about Cattleman Road? units—dwellings affordable to Well, there is good news on Realty Services Inc • 3590 17th St (corner of Beneva) households earning between 100 this front as well. Construction 941-954-4443 and 120 percent of the County’s of the road project, which was median income. The project began scheduled to start about July 7, has to progress, but thereafter, the begun. Florida Power and Light housing market started a downward has moved some of the utility poles trend into a proverbial “tank,” and on Cattlemen Road at a cost of so went the need for community approximately $1,000,000.00. housing. The Cattlemen Road project In turn, Benderson has been of greatest interest to The Development filed an application Meadows for more than ten years, Numbers to be released of its commitment to Our representatives, primarily ACUPUNCTURE PHYSICIAN, DR. BRENDA 955-1220 build the community housing units. Frank Reuss, spent innumerable ANGELIC TOUCH MASSAGE THERAPY 378-2232 The matter had to be first presented hours lobbying and cajoling the ANNIE’S CAFE & DELI 371-3354 to the Sarasota County Planning appropriate powers to have the EDWARD JONES 371-4137 Board, who again recommended project approved and completed. HOME IMPROVEMENT PLUS, INC. 376-6762 denial. But, after reviewing the All that good work is now near KOBERNICK HOUSE/ANCHIN PAVILION 377-0781 recommendation of the Planning fruition. Board and the arguments presented LIGHTHOUSE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT