Small Town Feeling and Urban Amenities

A city of urban amenities with small town living and feeling is the essence of what we want to preserve, promote, and enhance.

The problem is that urban amenities now are perceived as urban feeling---luxury condos and tall buildings---whereas they really are wonderful museums, vibrant performings arts organizations, unique, one-of-a-kind restaurants and shops, and great public spaces---including beaches, bayfront, and parks of all sizes.

We want urban amenities, not urban feeling and living. Sarasota has always had the reputation of being a small town with the desirable kinds of urban amenities. This combination is the unique character of Sarasota.

Now it is disappearing. SOS works to save the real urban amenities and support responsible, sustainable growth. We oppose the sacrifice of all kinds of public spaces, tree canopy, etc. to runaway growth, subsidized by our tax dollars, which threatens our small town living and feeling while offering us nothing but a signature of concrete and congested city center in return.