Office of County Attorney cautions County Commission about accepting one of four parcels Holderness was to transfer to county in exchange for 162 Beach Road property
The April 14 publication of the agenda for the April 21 Sarasota County Commission meeting appears to have solved a riddle, in a manner of speaking, about the removal of an item from the March 24 board agenda that dealt with a Siesta Key land transfer.
On April 21, as explained in a memo from the Office of the County Attorney — which has been included in the agenda packet for that session — the commissioners will have the opportunity to seek the renegotiation of the settlement of a federal lawsuit that Siesta Key businessman and property owner Michael Holderness had pursued against the county starting in late March 2024. A commission vote in November 2025 that was considered a key factor in that settlement has proven controversial on the barrier island.
In early March, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune published a formal Sarasota County Government notice regarding a facet of the proposed settlement…