County addresses responsiveness issues

The implication that Sarasota County officials were slow to handle what a developer considered a simple land planning issue was touched on in the Business Observer's recent issue covering Gulf Coast bureaucrats. (See March 1 issue.)

The indirect response from Sarasota County: Don't call us unresponsive.

That's the gist of an email conversation between Sarasota County Administrator Randall Reid and Planning and Development Services Director Thomas Polk. Reid, in a March 1 email, forwarded a story to Polk from the issue and wrote “Please review and explain for me why Carlos's project of median homes will take a year?”