No one can predict what form a parcel of real estate may take decades into the future, that fact forming the basis of a split-decision approval to rezone the 1.27 acres occupied by Alderman Oaks Retirement Center.
Positioned on the southern edge of the historic Laurel Park neighborhood one block north of U.S. 41 at at 727 Hudson Ave., the ownership of Alderman Oaks sought to rezone the property from Residential Multiple Family to Downtown Edge, the petition filed without a site plan.
That application was approved 3-2 during the Sarasota City Commission’s March 2 meeting…