To help the group tasked with facilitating an updated Sarasota downtown master plan to determine where it is going, it must first learn where it has been.
During its May 28 meeting, the city’s 13-member Downtown Master Plan 2020 Update Committee heard from five witnesses who were here when the adoption of current plan came in the early 2000s. All five played a key role in the plan drafted by Duany-Plater-Zyberk & Company, led by New Urbanism guru, Andres Duany.
“The five presenters are really eyewitnesses to history,” said committee Chairman Howard Davis. “Twenty-five years ago when the current plan was done, everybody here (to present) was in Sarasota and involved in the preparation of the plan, so we’re getting the first-hand information from eyewitnesses to history.”…