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Oct 17, 2022 – Joe Hendricks
August 29, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Proposed food truck regulations stalled

Proposed food truck regulations stalled

ANNA MARIA – City officials are pumping the brakes on their efforts to create a designated food truck area at the northwest end of Bayfront Park. With potentially impacted residents and property o…
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August 16, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria creating designated food truck zone

Anna Maria creating designated food truck zone

ANNA MARIA – City officials have designated a food truck parking zone at the northwest end of Bayfront Park. A concrete or stone-covered food truck parking area will be created near the city sand…
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August 8, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria plans to maintain 2.05 millage rate

Anna Maria plans to maintain 2.05 millage rate

ANNA MARIA – The city commission plans to maintain the current 2.05 millage rate for the ad valorem property taxes collected in the coming 2022-23 fiscal year. The current 2021-22 fiscal year ends…
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August 8, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria loses a true gentleman

Anna Maria loses a true gentleman

ANNA MARIA – Longtime resident and former Anna Maria Elementary School principal Jack Dietrich, 92, passed away on Aug. 1. A memorial service will be held at Roser Memorial Community Church on Sat…
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August 2, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Another vacation rental home deemed public nuisance

Another vacation rental home deemed public nuisance

ANNA MARIA – Due to repeated noise violations, Special Magistrate Gerald Buhr has deemed a vacation rental home at 205 South Bay Blvd. to be a public nuisance. Buhr awarded the city a $150 adminis…
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August 2, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Unregistered vacation rental owner faces potential fines

Unregistered vacation rental owner faces potential fines

ANNA MARIA – The owner of a large home and smaller cottage at 714 Jacaranda Road has until Wednesday, Aug. 10 to register his vacation rentals or face a retroactive daily fine of up to $250 per day…
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August 2, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria pursuing food truck ordinance

Anna Maria pursuing food truck ordinance

ANNA MARIA – City officials have begun working on a new city ordinance that would specify where food trucks are allowed to operate within the city limits. The yet-to-be-drafted ordinance is also e…
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July 25, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Right of way permit approved for 105 Elm Avenue

Right of way permit approved for 105 Elm Avenue

ANNA MARIA – Fedora Campbell is one step closer to building her long-desired beachfront home at 105 Elm Ave. During an emergency city commission meeting on July 21, the Anna Maria Commission voted…
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July 18, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Commission approves Chiles Group’s paid parking

Commission approves Chiles Group’s paid parking

ANNA MARIA – The city commission has approved an amended site plan that allows the Chiles Group’s Sandbar restaurant to continue to use one of its parking lots for paid public parking. The commiss…
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July 18, 2022
By Joe Hendricks

Anna Maria adopts new alcohol ordinance

ANNA MARIA – The city has a new alcohol ordinance that addresses liquor sales, package liquor stores – and requires some patrons to cover up. The city commission adopted Ordinance 2022-901 on its…
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April 9, 2025
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