Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Manatee County officials respond to Bayshore Garden residents' pleas

Bayshore Gardens residents are not afraid to voice their opinions. The folks living in this community built in the late 1950s want to see it preserved. They believe that it can regain its former glory with some tender loving care, tough regulations and some attention from the county.

The residents have been working to provide the TLC, the county is drafting new land development regulations that could provide the teeth residents want to keep older properties from deteriorating. And after listening to residents' concerns last week about houses burned in a series of arson fires, which I reported here on Friday, the county staff has found some grant money to begin demolishing those houses.

John Barnott, the county's building and development services director, said the county plans to use neighborhood stabilization grants to demolish one of the houses that was the target of arson.

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