City staff instructed to develop condo-hotel policy

With developers of hybrid condominium-hotel use buildings submitting plans for the first time, the Sarasota planning staff was assigned to develop a policy to govern the trend. 

The arrival of development proposals for hybrid condominium/short-term rental/hotel uses in Sarasota has left the city’s planning staff in a conundrum. That’s because the zoning code within the Downtown and Urban Mixed-Use zone districts do not contemplate that kind of mixed use…