Role/jurisdiction: Downtown parking management is sophisticated here — good comp-site source for parking studies. City streets only; US 41/Tamiami Trail (incl. the roundabout corridor) and other state roads are FDOT District 1 — confirm maintaining agency per corridor #status/verify. Development review runs through Development Services and its Development Review Committee (DRC); traffic/ROW work through Public Works (Engineering, Transportation Planning) and the Parking Division.
Known starting points (resolved 2026-07-08 unless tagged):
- Bot-block warning: sarasotafl.gov (and scgov.net) return 403 to non-browser clients — every sarasotafl.gov link below failed curl but was confirmed live via current search results and Wayback snapshots (June 2025 – April 2026). They load fine in a browser.
- The Engineering Design Criteria Manual (EDCM) got its first update in 22 years (adopted 2024, implementation with companion code updates targeted 2026) — check which edition governs your submittal.
- A Neighborhood Traffic Calming Manual (Jan 31, 2025) exists with concrete thresholds and petition mechanics — rare for a city this size.
- Sarasota in Motion (2020) is the citywide transportation master plan; the comp plan transportation chapter is being updated at Engage Sarasota.
Collect (link each as found; date it)
- TIA/TIS guidelines: no standalone published TIS manual. The General & Development Applications — General Information packet (PDF, rev. Sept 2023) requires a traffic-impact analysis for any development: either a “de minimis” determination or a Transportation Concurrency and Traffic Circulation Study. All forms: Development Application Forms. Study methodology/scoping: request from Development Services. (checked 2026-07-08; 403-to-bots, confirmed live via Wayback)
- Parking study guidelines / parking code (with section #): Zoning Code Article VII, Division 2 — Off-Street Parking and Loading (Municode); general parking requirements at § VII-203 (recently amended by Ord. 22-5430 and 23-5474). No published parking-study guideline — but the Parking and Mobility division (4 city garages, ~4,000 downtown public spaces, meters, permit programs) is a strong comp-site data source for shared/managed parking studies. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic calming program/guidelines: Neighborhood Traffic Calming Manual, Jan 31 2025 (PDF) — treatment considered when 85th percentile speed exceeds the posted limit (solution matrix); petition passes via Option 1: ≥51% of study-area property owners agree, or Option 2: ≥60% agreement from a ≥51% response rate, returned within 90 days. Program pages: Traffic Calming · Traffic Calming Plan (citywide plan in development). Related: adopted policy language to reduce local-street limits toward 20 mph — Reducing Speed Limits policy (PDF). (checked 2026-07-08; 403-to-bots, confirmed live via Wayback incl. an Apr 2026 snapshot of the manual)
- Complete Streets policy · Vision Zero / Safety Action Plan: no standalone city Vision Zero plan. The city is a named partner in the Sarasota County SS4A Safety Action Plan (with North Port, Venice, Longboat Key) — county SS4A page (403-to-bots; confirmed via Wayback). Citywide policy direction lives in Sarasota in Motion — vision adopted 2019-09-16, master plan accepted July 2020 (PDF). Regional: MPO Destination Zero Safety Data. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Roadway design standards / standard details: Engineering Design Criteria Manual — sets standards for roads, trails, sidewalks, subdivision work, and everything in city ROW; 2024 update adopted (first since 2002), implementation alongside companion code updates targeted 2026 — confirm which edition applies to your submittal
#status/verify. (checked 2026-07-08; 403-to-bots, confirmed live via Wayback) - Access management standards: no standalone access management code published. Driveway/ROW connections and encroachments run through the Engineering Division’s ROW Use Permit (below); geometric/driveway design in ROW is governed by the EDCM. State-road connections: FDOT D1 connection permits. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic count requirements (seasonal factors accepted?): the city publishes no count database and no count-methodology requirements — request per project. Nearby data: Sarasota County Traffic Operations publishes annual counts as downloadable Excel by year (trafficops.scgov.net) with raw counts converted to AADT using seasonal factors — county roadways; coverage inside city limits varies
#status/verify. MPO GeoHub via data & map tools; FDOT Traffic Online for state roads. (checked 2026-07-08) - Crash/safety dashboard: none published by the city. Use the Sarasota/Manatee MPO Destination Zero Safety Data page (crash/KSI layers on the MPO GeoHub, incl. Bike/Ped KSI map 2019–2023) and the county SS4A materials. (checked 2026-07-08)
- GIS / open data portal: City of Sarasota Open Data (ArcGIS Hub) — download CSV/KML/GeoJSON etc. · GIS/Maps gallery · sarasota.maps.arcgis.com. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Signal timing procedures & maintaining agency: the city operates its own traffic signals and ITS field equipment (signals, vehicle/ped detectors, CCTV, DMS) per the FDOT District 1 ITS architecture element “City of Sarasota Traffic Control Equipment”, coordinated regionally through the Sarasota-Manatee RTMC under the 2005 five-party ATMS interlocal (FDOT, both counties, Sarasota, Bradenton). No written signal-timing procedures published — request from Public Works. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Development review process & submittal requirements: Development Review — DRC meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays; pre-application conference recommended (not required); 30-day completeness review, then technical review against the Zoning Code; 2026 DRC review schedule (PDF) · development review flow chart — outside downtown (PDF). (checked 2026-07-08; 403-to-bots, confirmed live via Wayback/search)
- Permit forms (ROW, driveway): Engineering Division permits — ROW Use, Erosion & Siltation, Franchise Utilities, ROW Special Event — applied for through the city permitting portal; ROW Use requires plans, MOT plan, pedestrian control plan where applicable (Engineering Division). (checked 2026-07-08)
- Example projects (ours & public): ours live in the private vault (see callout below); no city-published example TIS submittals found online.
Contacts, review-comment history, and institutional notes live in the private vault — never on the public site.
See also: MOC - Agencies · Sarasota County · Sarasota Manatee MPO · City of Bradenton