Land developer Brian Tuttle is building one of the biggest projects ever attempted in the County of Sarasota. Here he explains the project and its pitfalls to the county commission who is meeting him for the first time.
Local columnist Ed Martin addresses council about Mike Miller's development in North Venice, gets tag-teamed by the mayor and Miller's attorney, Jeff Boone
VENICE FLORIDA 03/11/08 -- Public official gets caught covering for and allowing a business to violate the city's permitting process in a severe manner. Venice Florida! dot com's John Patten tells council about it but gets threatened with being "restrained" by Mayor Ed Martin -- can you say cover up?
Waterford developer Mike Miller's employees sent stealth letters to newspapers begging for a new Wal-Mart, one that their boss would be including in his new development project. Mike got busted.
VENICE FLORIDA 04/09/08 - After numerous citizen complaints, most anonymous, about drug dealers working specific areas of Venice, Capt. Tom McNulty of the Venice Police Department responds with information about how the VPD has been and will deal with the problem.
Attorney Ron Noble speaks to the Venice Florida City Council on the consent agreement reached between the EPA and the City of Venice in the criminal case of U.S. v. City of Venice. Story that accompanies this video can be found at http://www.venfl.com /features/ronnoblevi deo.htm
VENICE FLORIDA 09/26/07 - City Attorney Bob Anderson explains to council the laws and procedures regarding the upcoming short term rentals hearing that will take place on December 11, 2007. Mayor Fred Hammett has a power outage when trying to figure out who will be in charge of the hearing.
Venice Florida City Council meeting of March 27, 2007. City Manager Marty Black discusses the procedure that will be used to decide who is going to build what at the Venice Municipal Airport.
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