Staff with knowledge of historic resources in Sarasota County have been reviewing developments for potential impacts to significant historic and archaeological resources since the 1980's. This review process was formalized in the historic preservation chapter of the Sarasota County Comprehensive Plan prior to the adoption of an ordinance that addressed historic and archaeological resource protection in 1995.

In 1997 two additional pieces of legislation were passed; one creating the Sarasota County Historic Preservation Board and a process for historically designating significant historic resources, and the other an ad-valorem tax exemption for qualifying projects on historically designated buildings and structures.

  Chapter 66

             Sarasota County Design Guidelines for Historic Properties (33mb)

To complete an application for listing in the Sarasota County Register of Historic Places

             Sarasota County Application for Historic Designation

For further information see:

  City of Venice Archives

  Florida Division of Historical Resources

  National Park Service

  Neighborhood Sustainability & Historic Preservation

  Nokomis Beach Plaza Rehabilitation (slide show)
               After opening the slide show, click on the 'notes tab' at the top left side of the page, for the slide show's narration.

  Sarasota History Alive
           
The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation