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Commission backs commissioner-led effort to vacate Bayshore Drive and restore waterfront owners’ riparian rights
Summary
After decades of inconsistent mapping and a disputed 1998 deed, commissioners authorized staff to pursue vacating a platted but submerged Bayshore Drive, rezoning the upland parcels to restore riparian rights for adjacent homeowners, and to take legal steps as needed; vote 4‑0 with one abstention.
Sarasota County commissioners on Jan. 15 instructed county staff to proceed with a package of actions aimed at correcting historic mapping and ownership anomalies along Bayshore Drive, a platted road that, in most places, occupies submerged lands along Lemon Bay.
Commissioner Charles Kutsinger described long-standing confusion created when the county’s 1976 map drew a property line down the middle of a platted road that largely never existed in dry land. He and residents…
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