A builder, a landowner and Sarasota County are heading back to mediation over a proposal to develop housing east of Interstate 75, across the street from the Celery Fields nature preserve.
The latest twist in this more than two-year saga took place Tuesday, Oct. 21 when Sarasota County Commissioners unanimously rejected a mediated settlement with landowner The Cindy L. Smith Revocable Living Trust and D.R. Horton, the developer behind the proposal to build the 51-acre project. County commissioners in February unanimously rejected the original request for a rezoning required to build 126 homes, backing the 4-3 recommendation weeks earlier by the county’s Planning Board.
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