big pass dredging

SKA continues to seek donations for legal expenses

Published on November 26, 2019 by author

By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com During the November Siesta Key Association (SKA) meeting, Director Robert Luckner reminded regular attendees — and updated snowbirds back for season — that, in mid-December, the nonprofit will file its appeal of the Circuit Court decision Read More

Big Pass Dredging

Published on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by author

gSiesta Key Association still maintains City of Sarasota has failed to issue adequate determination that dredging of Big Pass will not violate city policies By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com In his summary brief following a July 23 hearing, the attorney for Read More

Dredging of Big Pass

Published on July 31, 2019 by author

City of Sarasota’s Development Services director contradicts key Siesta Key Association assertion in Circuit Court case seeking to prevent dredging of Big Pass By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com The director of the City of Sarasota’s Development Services Department testified in the Read More

Circuit Court judge in Siesta Key Association’s Big Pass case seeking to move up date of summer hearing

Published on June 28, 2019July 1, 2019 by author

By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com The Siesta Key Association (SKA) has asked a 12th Judicial Circuit Court judge to accelerate the timeline for a hearing on the complaint the SKA filed in the court in March 2017 to try to prevent Read More

Sand source eliminated

Published on June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 by author

Part of Big Pass Sand borrow area between northernmost Siesta Key and Lido Key eliminated from proposed dredging plans By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com Close to a third of one area of Big Sarasota Pass has been eliminated as a sand Read More

Save Our Siesta Sand 2 prepared for review of thousands of Army Corps of Engineers documents as next step in federal lawsuit to try to stop dredging of Big Pass

Published on April 28, 2019April 28, 2019 by author

By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com A Siesta Key nonprofit has been awaiting what its leaders believe will be thousands of documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which they and their subject matter experts will have to review as they Read More

Circuit Court judge once again rules against Siesta Key Association in Big Pass case

Published on January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 by author

By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com Once again, a 12th Judicial Circuit Court judge has struck down legal challenges made by the Siesta Key Association (SKA) as the nonprofit seeks to prevent the dredging of Big Sarasota Pass. Yet, just as she Read More

Judge dismisses Siesta Key Association’s Big Pass case in 12th Judicial Circuit Court

Published on October 30, 2018 by author

By Rachel Brown Hackney A 12th Judicial Circuit Court judge dismissed a verified complaint the Siesta Key Association (SKA) filed against the City of Sarasota in early 2017, seeking to stop the dredging of Big Sarasota Pass to renourish about Read More

Residents question some of City of Sarasota’s legal fee payments in Big Pass case

Published on August 28, 2018 by author

By Rachel Brown Hackney A number of Siesta residents have questioned the fact that the City of Sarasota has paid some of the expenses of the Lido Key Residents Association (LKRA) as that organization has fought the Siesta Key Association Read More

Siesta Key Association questions FDEP’s intention to allow City of Sarasota to dredge New Pass without city’s having completed required inlet management plan