FRUITVILLE 210
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
Honore Ave thru to Bee Ridge - NOW! or never . . . ?
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Honore Avenue corridor design contract approved
A new north-south route through the county came a step closer Tuesday as the Board of County Commissioners approved a design contract to build and improve a portion of Honore Avenue.
SARASOTA (WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2004) - The contract, with Owen Ayres & Associates Inc. of Sarasota, is for design and permitting of construction for a new four-lane roadway from Bee Ridge Road to Colonial Oaks Boulevard, just less than a mile, and reconstructing the existing two-lane segment of Honore Avenue from Colonial Oaks Boulevard to just south of Fruitville Road, a distance of 1.75 miles. After construction, starting some time in 2007, the completed project will consist of a four-lane divided roadway with bicycle lanes, sidewalks, closed drainage, signalized intersections, street lighting, and landscaped medians. Also included in this project will be the realignment of the intersection of Palmer Boulevard and Honore Avenue, which might then have a traffic signal as well.
The proposed budget for the entire project, including the costs for design, permitting, land acquisition and construction, is $31 million, of which construction costs are estimated at $17.4 million. Funding comes from property taxes, North County road impact fees, telecommunications tax, gas taxes and the infrastructure surtax (penny sales tax).
The new portion of Honore Avenue creates an alternative to using McIntosh Road or Cattlemen Road to connect Bee Ridge Road and Fruitville Road. Some drivers now have to travel well out of their way to use an existing north-south route. The Honore Avenue project is one of several that will create a grid of alternatives to move traffic across the county.
As an early part of this project, the county last year purchased 43 acres for stormwater management facilities along the west side of Honore Avenue between Box Turtle Circle and Turtle Creek Lane. That purchase will also preserve existing wetlands and other natural features and may be used for other county project needs and for passive recreation in the future. Though a portion of Honore Avenue south of Bahia Vista Street is currently designated as a canopy road, during the project’s final design impacts to existing trees will be reduced as much as possible.
MARCH 12 - BCC Hearing
on Honore Ave & Palmer Blvd. intersection
Get involved with this issue.
That corner is dangerous NOW.
The County should buy that land
& correct that entire intersection. Pay the owners fair market value - it's what you would want for your land! Then FIX that intersection so
children can be safe on their bikes
and neighbors can walk across
the street! Three different groups of school children that use that intersection. Frutiville Elementary, Sarasota Christian and the small Menonite school on Honore.
Charter majority rule passes its first test
For all the controversy Sarasota County's supermajority charter amendment aroused during the election, its first application on Dec. 19 came and went with barely a ripple.
The county commissioners did not realize until after their vote that they invoked the new rule, which requires a 4-1 majority when a change to the comprehensive growth plan would increase intensity or density. A small comp plan amendment would have shifted 1.66 acres north of Palmer Boulevard and east of Honore Avenue from medium density residential to neighborhood commercial center.
A market study indicated the neighborhood needs more businesses. The property fronts two busy streets with another business district within sight.
No neighbors objected. And the commissioners have encouraged the applicants, four families in the area, as they slugged their way through a nearly three-year process. Read article HERE
-by Eric Ernst Columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune
The
Honore
Triangle
. . . is it like the
Bermuda Triangle?
This page was last updated: July 24, 2008
Sarasota rethinks transit policy with Honore
By Zac Anderson - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 2:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 1:24 a.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - Honore Avenue will be two lanes instead of four lanes between Fruitville and Bee Ridge roads.
Neighborhood concerns took priority over moving traffic faster Wednesday as the Sarasota County Commission decided not to make a 2.7-mile stretch of Honore Avenue a four-lane road.
The decision marked a fundamental policy change for a county that has long focused on relieving congestion at the expense of trees, aesthetics and homeowners' tranquility.
County commissioners said they did not want to make the same mistakes
with Honore Avenue that were made in the recent expansion of Bahia Vista Street, which wiped out large oak trees and brought pavement and walls into homeowners' front yards. Read article HERE
