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VOL 25 No. 16
December 11, 2024
Bradenton Beach condemns 25 properties
It is the responsibility of the property owners to demolish the buildings. BY LESLIE LAKE SUN CORRESPONDENT | llake@amisun.com
BRADENTON BEACH – City Building Official Darin Cushing has released a list of 25 condemned properties in the city. It is the only city on Anna Maria Island where properties have been condemned after Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton hit in September and October, disproportionately affecting the southernmost city on the Island. “I have forwarded this list to our attorney (City Attorney Ricinda Perry), and she is supposed to be drafting a letter to send out to each of the property owners. I'm not sure if she has done this as of yet,” Cushing stated in his Dec. 2 email to The Sun. “The house that floated down 12th Street S. (1201-A Gulf Drive S.) was already JOE HENDRICKS | SUN
SEE CONDEMNATION, PAGE 11
This Gulf Drive home is one of 25 condemned in Bradenton Beach. Anna Maria and Holmes Beach have not yet condemned properties.
Stimart family launches Build Back the Beach project
The goal is to replace a large portion of the shoreline vegetation in Anna Maria lost during Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. BY JOE HENDRICKS SUN CORRESPONDENT | jhendricks@amisun.com
ANNA MARIA – Homeowners Cindy and Tryn Stimart are leading the Build Back the Beach community impact project that plans to replace the native beachfront plants and grasses destroyed by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The project is an extension of the Stimart family’s Good Guardians Collective, www.goodgaurdianscollective.com. The Stimarts live in Lakewood Ranch and own a second home on North Shore Drive in Anna Maria. Their home is located about a block
away from the Sycamore Avenue end of the project area and their home and property will not directly benefit from the Build the Beach Back project. The Anna Maria home, purchased last year, serves as a weekend getaway and vacation home for the Stimart family that Cindy said visits at least once a month. The family spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Anna Maria and went fishing at Bean Point on Friday night. While visiting, the family often enjoys family walks on Bean Point. The Stimarts envision living in their Anna Maria home fulltime when they get closer to retirement and the six children in their blended family head off to college and into adulthood. Their Anna Maria home is also operated as a short-term vacation rental managed by Sato Real Estate.
SEE STIMART, PAGE 13
Pines Trailer Park parking lot converted to public paid parking Pines residents have paid for parking through Dec. 31, then will have to pay-by-plate for spaces. BY LESLIE LAKE SUN CORRESPONDENT | llake@amisun.com
BRADENTON BEACH – The parking lot for Pines Trailer Park residents at 201 First St. N. has been converted to a public paid parking lot. Signs went up in the past week indicating a pay-by-plate system is in place. A representative for Pines Trailer Park owner Pines Park Investors LLC, who asked not to be named, said on Dec. 5 that Pines residents who have paid the annual parking fee may continue to use the lot until Dec. 31 and a letter would be going out to residents.
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Pines resident Ryan Pfahler told The Sun on Dec. 5 that residents who require parking paid an annual fee of $750. “Some residents who live on Midge and Bay and Church have designated spaces, but everyone on Laverne and most of Midge don’t,” Pfahler said. “It’s probably close to half of the people.” Pines residents are waiting for official word from the city as to whether they can repair their hurricane-damaged mobile homes under the FEMA 50% guidelines. According to Pfahler, most of the Pines residents are not living in their mobile homes, pending that decision from the city and a decision about the future of the park from the owners.
SEE PARKING, PAGE 4
SECOND CONDEMNATION reversed
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