- June 21, 2025
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Three multifamily developments in Sarasota that include affordable and attainable housing units have received partial sign-off from the city’s Development Review Committee.
As projects within the downtown zone districts, none require approval by the City Commission — although two seek adjustments from the director of development services, with one also requiring a Planning Board adjustment.
Combined, the developments comprise 435 dwellings, 48 of them priced as attainable or affordable as defined by the city’s downtown attainable housing density bonus program.
Partial sign-off is when a project plan has advanced to the stage where it no longer requires appearances before the full body of staff development department representatives. Full sign-off and all adjustments must be achieved prior to consideration for administrative approval.
On its second submittal, The High Line at 32 N. Osprey Ave. seeks administrative site plan and administrative adjustment approval to demolish two existing office buildings to make way for an 11-story mixed-use building with 142 multifamily dwelling units and 6,660 square feet of commercial space.
The site includes the former Michael Saunders & Company building at the corner of North Osprey Avenue and Main Street.
The developer listed on city documents is a partnership of MOP North LLC and Jebcore 2 LLC, both entities under local developer Mark Kauffman family ownership.
The zoned site has a future land use classification of Downtown Core.
The proposed access is from First Street. There is 16 proposed attainable units using the downtown attainable housing bonus, and a proposed 11th story under the city's public parking and sidewalk incentive.
The administrative adjustment is required for a plan to remove and replace five street trees elsewhere on the property.
A development known as 711 & 717 North Orange Avenue, which will be located at those addresses at the northwest corner of Orange Avenue and Seventh Street, on its third submittal advanced to administrative site plan approval consideration for 19 multifamily dwelling units with associated amenities in a six-story building.
Proposed by Gillespie Park Developments LLC, the site is zoned Downtown Edge with a future land use classification of Urban Edge. It also lies within the Rosemary Residential Overlay District.
The proposed vehicle access is from Seventh Street. The project includes two attainable housing units through the RROD residential bonus density program and is not seeking any administrative or Planning Board adjustments.
The largest of the three projects advancing out of the DRC on its third submittal but still working toward full staff sign-off is Fruitville Gateway. That project is planned as some 274 multifamily dwelling units, 30 of them designated as affordable and attainable, on the eastern edge of downtown. The developer is American Land Ventures of Miami.
The project, which covers addresses of 2015-2063 Fruitville Road and 2014-2092 Fourth St., is seeking administrative site plan, Planning Board adjustment and administrative adjustment approval to redevelop the approximately 3.14-acre site zoned Downtown Edge with a future land use designation of Urban Edge. North Washington Boulevard to the east and East Avenue bounds the property.
A request for a Planning Board adjustment has been filed to allow access from Fourth Street, which is identified as a primary street. An administrative adjustment request has been filed to permit the building to exceed the maximum front setback to East Avenue, also a primary street, to preserve a grand tree.
