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Sarasota commissioners uphold denial of Nokomis scrap-yard business-use permit after months of complaints
Summary
After months of resident complaints about noise, traffic and storm debris, the County Commission unanimously upheld a staff decision that a scrap-yard operation in Nokomis requires a special exception rather than a routine business-use permit, and directed the county attorney to pursue injunctive relief to halt operations pending compliance.
The Sarasota County Commission unanimously upheld a staff decision on June 3 to deny a business-use permit for AllScrap, a metal-collection operation at 492 Riverview Drive South in Nokomis, concluding the activity functions as a waste-transfer/recycling operation that requires a special exception rather than a routine outdoor-storage permit.
The vote affirms the UDC (Unified Development Code) administrator’s March 10 determination after multiple code-enforcement inspections and special-magistrate hearings. Planning director Matthew Osterhout told commissioners staff found the facility receives and compacts scrap on site, transfers material into shipping containers and moves it off site — activities the county says comport with a waste-related service that should be processed through a special-exception review. The board also instructed the county attorney to seek injunctive relief to stop the operation while legal remedies…
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