Now more than ever, Sarasota County needs GEO and GEO needs you. Please join GEO today.
During the past 14 years, The Growth-restraint and Environmental Organization has had a major impact on the growth and environmental policies of our community. We led the way in defeating several bad referenda, from a $100 million tax hike to build roads for developers to a blank check sales tax extension to Charter amendments to repeal limits on County borrowing and taxes. In response to our advocacy, for many years Sarasota County largely kept the I-75 barrier on urban sprawl and maintained most of the strong environmental and growth restraint policies of the 1980's, despite attempts to repeal them. We have strengthened the County's neighborhood compatibility policies. We have worked, with mixed success, to make growth pay its own way.
Now, however, the challenge is greater than ever before. Sarasota County Progrowthers continue to push several initiatives to weaken and destroy restraints on growth and development. The outcome of these issues is not yet determined and results can ultimately go either way, depending on the level of public awareness and engagement.
That's where you come in. As a member of GEO, you help us to be a stronger organization. You are also kept informed of pending decisions, so that you may better influence them, by attending public hearings and contacting your Commissioners.
Please join GEO today. Please stay involved. Together we can make this a better community, for us all and for generations yet to come. We can't afford not to try.
I agree that growth should be controlled to avoid tax hikes, traffic jams,
pollution, water shortages and other problems of overgrowth. Please sign me up and keep me informed.
