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Commissioners prioritize stormwater and corridor upgrades as top strategic items
Summary
After a daylong retreat, commissioners narrowed the 2025 policy agenda to a focused set of infrastructure priorities: a countywide stormwater review and modernization, targeted corridor expansion (notably Fruitville Road and Lorraine), Midnight Pass maintenance, and affordable housing measures.
Sarasota County commissioners used a strategic planning retreat to narrow a long list of potential 2025 policy items to a focused set of infrastructure priorities, with stormwater modernization rising to the top.
"This is, in many ways, the most important day of the year for us as staff and for me as your county administrator," County Administrator Jonathan Lewis told the board as he framed the retreat—s purpose of setting big policy priorities. Commissioners spent hours debating wording, scope and sequencing before consolidating…
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