hi i'm john the city of sarasota welcome to another edition of city life coming up the successful weekend farmer's market is becoming a very successful week day market at five points park well this is something new this year and it's something and thought about for about five years and actually to  bring you know more foot traffic light that saturday market downtown midway's mall and some students from lakewood ranch high school recently visited downtown sirus on a field trip to see new urbanism in action including our local beaches the storm washed precious sand away from the shore leaving many areas with very little beach until now as a part of this so we're getting it seventy five percent money for the hundred twenty thousand cubic yards and then between a grant from the florida department of protection and then the money from the tourist development tax makes up the other twenty five percent but because we continue to have a roast in the city commission meeting with panic me so we're talking about that and actually the county commission considered using some additional towards development dollars and subsequently did vote to allow us to use a million additional dollars so we could put more sand than just what was lost from debby so we're actually going to get about one hundred ninety seven thousand cubic yards will be quite a bit more than we lost that one storm but roughly about eighty to one hundred twenty feet of sand will be added to the beach as it stands now you know the beach is a vital for the protection of homes that are infrastructure and is a is a resource for a community there's a lot that goes into it and actually we were lucky that we had an existing permit from our last nourishment project on stead of having to start all over because it can take even longer we were able to modify our existing permits and so we have to do is we have to show where we're getting the sand from and we had a shoal that's just south of new pass was part of original permit and there was sand still in that shoal so we're able to use that sand just modify the permit to and we're going to use a smaller area for c m a little bit smaller project show where the sand is going to go we have to provide information on the sand quality on the ferry it's beautiful sand and so just sort of you know as it is a shoal it's just south you'll see that the one is actually the dredge so that's where the sand comes in and it takes it then we've got a booster station so that helps helps push the sand to the beach and so they've got the two vessels out there it is a really interesting process and this  contract year is really working with us what they're doing is they're starting in the north and they're working on our south and then what's different with what they're doing is then as they finish a place they'll take the pipe up the relocate the pipe and then they'll clean that whole area up so you won't have the pipe sitting there for the duration of the project it will get removed little by little surprising when we go get a permit from the florida department of environmental protection they also look at the habitat larry and we do have a lot of turtles that nest there so we have to do projects outside of turtle nesting season and so the benefit of having it done now courses will have more be for the turn of the past when they start it does me were doing the private during tourist season but we also have a lot of properties that are right there they don't have any betov so we're hoping that they do is quickly as possible so they to ration of several pilings supporting the structures engineers perform the site inspection and a qualified marine contractor was hired to install new pilings and structural beingness crews were often working at low tides because much of the work was done in the bay horse lane is expected to reopen to the public very soon and a new park has been dedicated right next door to hearts landing city officials were among the large crowd gathered to celebrate the new elouise were in part earnest doc world donated the funds to build a new children's playground in loving memory of his ways the new park rests in the shade of john ringling bridge and features climbing and play equipment designed for children ages five to twelve as well as shade and benches for relaxing my wife and i always love gardens and parks and it was important for us to try to make up to take a measure to enhance sarasota the community that was the inspiration and we wanted something for children and i think we've achieved that mr  also made arrangements for future maintenance cost to be funded through his generous donation to the city we're going to take a quick break but don't go away city life will be right  back make sure you're watering your yard on the proper day in the city of sarasota residents with the odd house number those ending with one three five seven four nine are allowed to irrigate on thursday residents with an even house number zero two four six or eight can water on tuesdays for more information call the city of sarasota as public works department at nine five two three two five gov dot com welcome back to city life since one nine hundred seventy nine the sarasota farmer's market has been a popular place to be on saturday mornings so popular in fact that organizers have brought it to the workweek right in the heart of downtown  well this is something new this year and it's something that that and thought about for about five years and actually to bring you know more foot traffic light the saturday market downtown mid we you know we talk to management of the city day they thought that they wanted us to have a workshop in talk to you know those concerned residents and we had a workshop and went over some of their concerns and it's funny because their area every week shopping and they've actually come up and said you know this is a great thing to have so you know they were a little leery at the beginning but they see that we're well under control you know there's a lot of people that can't get to the saturday market especially during the season when it's so busy so there's people that work downtown or people that are visiting downtown that don't get a chance to come on saturday so it's been pretty much the same thing you know some local produce and you know other things that we have on saturdays so it's you know it's a smaller market you know obviously our saturday market is fairly large has a lot of vendors but  is the park it's almost like a european market here the smaller market it's got a nice feel you know it's a music some tables and chairs so it's people have really enjoyed it on wednesday i think it's great because a lot of my customers have bought they buy a lot of products on saturday and now they have the option to buy it and i found that on wednesday a lot of people are finding us on wednesday that's only been about the downtown market on saturday so it's a great way to get people and have a saturday people don't know about the wednesday market and that's a great way to get everybody or more in market so they can get fresh pressed credit a lot of the stuff we have fairs locally grown and you know that that's what people want because we have our pineapple man and you know something produce wise or just a good you have also we have a little bit of food here so people him down and get you know a small sandwich or something like that we have we have some of our crab cake fear so you know people at work downtown it's nice that they can come down and walk around and enjoy the park five point you know it's like some of our the olive oil folks that you know that are from italy you know they get a chance to tell a little bit more about about their products and other vendors also our customers have mentioned that because they get a chance to chat with the vendors a little bit more you know socially during the season when we're so busy saturday and they have a chance to you know talk is talk to vendors a little bit more you know this is our first year and  some liquid ranch high school students are getting a real life lesson in new urbanism plan is about seventy five students visited the city of sarasota to learn more about what they're studying in their advanced placement human geography course including new urbanism concepts the students met with staff from the urban design studio and city planners to learn about how the elements of new urbanism hope create a livable and walkable downtown and i've taught the course for seven years and i always wanted to take the kids on a field trip so they can see it firsthand get real world experience not just reading about it in a textbook and i thought the best place for it was a city a series so it because a i've been here so many times and seen how the city has changed over twenty years and although we have great things happening in lakewood ranch really there's no other place than city a sarasota where we could see actually happening real traditional city which has taken on these design principles and really turned things around in the last ten twenty years city staff also led the students on a walking tour of downtown to see planning in action which stops at whole foods the five points roundabout and a new hotel under construction well it's time to visit another great and you know it's nice not of these people you know they stop in this see me once in a while and make sure i'm right and people look out for each other it's just a very you know you can tell if there's a strange something going on and  you just know you're not going to get cookie cutter with the houses or the construction or the people and that's really fantastic i think that's one of the reasons that this neighborhood is so special is because we have such a ridge of ages and people and backgrounds and interests and jobs i mean i think that just adds to the red richness here but everybody here has a commonality that they don't want to live someplace you know that's cookie cutter our normal or where everything looks the same because we doubt the very eclectic neighborhood mean in terms of ages there's a lot of young families here but there's a lot of people we have a couple women who have been here for over fifty years if i had looked all over sarasota for a place to retire i could not have found a better spot in my opinion because we're close you don't have to crawl you don't have to use for anyone you can get your groceries you can go to the do hospital you can go to all of the doctors you want you can  go over here and buy electronic stuff without ever getting out on forty would and so i think that's one of the nicest parts you can be downtown in ten minutes and everything i could walk to publix or c if i wanted to so that the proximity to everything walk score dot com which analyzes neighborhood proximity to shopping to restaurants other amenities ranks grenada as the seventh neighborhood in sarasota so we're really really proud of that really close to siesta key very close to the public's and the shopping and restaurants very close to the mall but you still feel secluded in a little bit away from all the congestion it felt like we discovered some secret hidden neighborhoods we've never seen before which is pretty amazing our street has a full canopy on it of old oak trees that are you know just covered with native plants it's just beautiful we came up here and we bought this lot and we stood in the street and i said do you think we have been a tree it was solid i can't tell you how many times i've walked the neighborhood we have a two year old so i'm walking the neighborhood almost every day and  just love going in and out of the spanish name streets and saying hi to the neighbors and the canopy is that the the oak tree provides provides good shade during the summer and just makes a really beautiful neighborhood yes the fountain was homeowners association meetings garden club meetings throughout the years and even today we use it for some community events and some of our meetings and decorate it for the holidays and we're really proud of it it's kind of like the symbol and the center of our neighborhood it's beautiful and it is close to everything and i think probably one of the best locations in the area from driving around and seeing other places i think this is the jam the number one thing honestly is having you know neighbors that we can count on that feel we feel comfortable with the place that we lived before this for four years it was a great neighborhood it was very very safe and not one person came to introduce themselves when we as well that's all the time we have for now but we thank you for watching and we hope to see