Spotlight on Bradenton Beach
Bradenton Beach is a city on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city occupies the southern part of Anna Maria Island and is one of three municipalities on the island. The others are Holmes Beach in the center and Anna Maria in the north.
Bradenton Beach is a small, friendly island community that values the civic pride of both permanent and seasonal residents, maintains its Old Florida charm, and respects its bountiful natural resources. History, hospitality and spirit are the hallmarks of this thriving waterfront, offering ease of mobility by land and sea.
Bradenton Beach is a charming and vibrant community located at the southern end of Anna Maria Island. The Island is located at the southern entrance to Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. They share the island with sister cities of Holmes Beach and Anna Maria City. Access to Anna Maria Island can be achieved from the mainland (Bradenton) via bridges on Cortez Road or Manatee Avenue or from Longboat Key to the south via the bridge over Longboat Pass
Bradenton Beach is blessed with miles of sugar sand beach. Cortez and Coquina beaches on the Gulf side are managed by Manatee County. Cortez Beach lies in northern section of the city, with numerous access points available. Coquina Beach lies at the southern end of the city and has lifeguard supervision. A large parking area is located next to the beach from 5th Street South, with acres of parking found at the Coquina Park at the south end of the island.
On the bay side at Coquina is a small beach that is popular with personal watercraft riders. Public washrooms, a picnic area and snack bar are also found at CoquinaThe city boasts miles of uninterrupted supervised public sugar sand beaches on the Gulf side and calm docking and mooring areas on the mangrove lined bay side.
You can fish from the popular City Pier, which features a full service Café and where bait is available. Inshore and offshore fishing tours are also readily available from local Guides. There are a number of Parks within city limits, including beach front with picnic facilities and public restrooms. There are numerous public accesses to the beach. There are also public boat ramps at the county managed Bay Side Park at the southern tip of the city
Bradenton Beach merchants offer a full slate of goods and services including accommodation of every kind, restaurants, bars, retail outlets, real estate and other professional services. The unique shops of Bridge Street in the city’s central Historic Old Town district are one of kind!
The city is a gem positioned on the sparkling waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Laid back, friendly and open-hearted they welcome visitors and new residents with equal warmth.
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Spotlight on The Ormond Beach Area
The Greater Ormond Beach Area and surrounding Volusia County features an unmatched blend of modern, well-planned communities situated amid a landscape of unspoiled natural beauty. Located on East Central Florida’s Atlantic coast, our area boasts outstanding year-round climate and a down-home flavor that defines how Florida living is meant to be.
It’s the perfect place to live, work and play. Area residents enjoy a low cost of living, affordable housing, efficient transportation, quality education, state-of-the-art health care facilities and an expanding business climate that promotes high-tech, clean industry. Our colleges and universities are recognized both nationally and internationally. Public and private schools are excellent and county growth is strategically planned and controlled.
You can enjoy a thriving cultural arts community, world-class sporting scene and a burgeoning business climate. Two major interstate highways and Daytona Beach International Airport provide residents and visitors alike easy access from our city to virtually any destination in the world.
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Welcome to Clearwater Beach, Florida!
Home of pristine white sand beaches, clear gulf waters, warm sunshine, and plenty of hospitality.
Clearwater Beach, an island, and a corporate part of the City, is a beach community connected to the mainland by Memorial Causeway, a four-lane, toll-free drive stretching almost two miles across the Intracoastal Waterway.
Business on Clearwater Beach is mainly tourist oriented, with hotels, motels and gift shops. Many fine homes, apartments and condominiums offer pleasant, semi-tropical island accommodations to permanent residents and winter and summer visitors.
Clearwater offers a seemingly endless supply of sun and a mild and temperate climate. It is ideally situated on the Gulf of Mexico on Florida’s west coast, offering something for every visitor.
With designations as Best City Beach, one of America’s Top Family Beaches, one of the Top Singles Beaches in Florida, and one of the Best Beaches from Maine to Hawaii, be assured, Clearwater boasts award winning beaches and so much more.
Providing extensive water recreation and nature-based and land-based attractions as well as a wide array of special events there is plenty to see and do. The rich history and heritage of this area along with the outstanding performing and visual arts make Clearwater the perfect place to spend time in – or out of – the sun.
Spotlight on Spruce Creek Fly-In
“America’s Premier Fly-In Country Club Community”
Spruce Creek Fly-In is a privately owned airpark and country club community on a 1,250 acre former World War II Naval airfield near Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a gated community with 24-hour security, has private 4000′ runway with over 14 miles of taxiways to hangar homes, a country club with golf and tennis, parks, and walking / jogging and bike paths. An ideal home of aviation enthusiasts and all who wish to live in a secure, active and friendly community.
Spruce Creek is our home and our passion. We live the Spruce Creek Adventure every day – from flying, to sports, to the many forms of art and culture that flourish in this vibrant community. No matter what your lifestyle, no other community offers the diversity of the Spruce Creek Fly-In Community.
Spruce Creek Fly-in features Homes with Hangars on the taxiways, Golf Course Homes on or with a view of the golf course, Country Club Homes and Nature Homes adjacent to Spruce Creek preserve, Commercial Hangars, Town Homes. There are still a few Building Lots available.
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Harmony, Florida – A Healthy Lifestyle
Harmony offers a healthful and life-enhancing environment for its community members.
Miles of trails and walkways, two natural lakes with community owned boats, athletic courts and fields, a championship, International Audubon certified golf course and a community activities program provide an endless list of mentally and physically stimulating things to do for all ages.
Walking is a great way to get around, if it’s made pleasurable. The compact site plan allows homes to be a safe and convenient walk away from retail and professional services, recreation and work. This activity is not only good for the body, but also helps to promote human interaction and community building. Harmony is one of the few communities in Central Florida where students can easily walk to elementary, middle and high school classes without crossing a major street.
An Open Community
Community features belong to the community.
The open space values of Buck and Cat lakes and the Harmony Golf Preserve are considerable and are integrated into the developed areas yet protected from damaging use. These resources are significant enough that they are purposefully not isolated by private lots, but are available to everyone.
As in a traditional town, there are distinctive neighborhoods at Harmony, but none is gate restricted. Instead, a mix of housing styles and sizes makes for an economic and social balance in each neighborhood. We believe that a mix of incomes, races and personal skills make for a strong community and is essential to the future of our society.
A Sense of Place
Planning for Harmony reflects its roots in Osceola County’s natural and agricultural heritage; not as a mere historical recollection, but as a functional part of the modern developed community.
Florida provides a globally unique climate that has given it a distinctive landscape and human culture. Though technology has given us the ability to overcome most natural limitations, this can come with a price and a certain amount of loss. Harmony’s developed landscape and architecture are inspired by the native
Kissimmee Prairie and Florida flatwoods vegetation and the ranches and settlements of Central Florida in an effort to be in balance with its setting.
Streets and neighborhoods are designed in a neo-traditional manner with natural and man-made boundaries and landmarks to provide community identity. This approach encourages the construction and preservation of buildings, community features and entire neighborhoods that reflect what is important to the community and which therefore will retain their economic vitality and value over time.
Community Building
Harmony promotes its lifestyle and builds a sense of community through community scale events.
Seasonal activities such as the Dark Sky Festival, Flag Day Celebration and Harvest Festival are intended to call attention to aspects of life at Harmony that we are especially proud of and want to share with those outside of Harmony. These events bring the entire community together in their preparation and presentation and are excellent ways to foster the small town character and
friendliness that Harmony is known for. While these events are now organized and conducted with strong support from the Harmony Development Co., participation by Harmony residents is encouraged and it is expected that these will become 100 percent community directed.
Spotlight on Harmony, Florida
People in Harmony with Nature
People live better when they live in regular contact with animals and nature.
We believe that human health and well being can be promoted through the interaction of people, animals and the environment, as advocated by the mission of the Harmony Institute, and we encourage a better understanding of the effectiveness of these practices through the Institute’s efforts to examine them at Harmony. Harmony welcomes pets through its dog parks, Pet Cafe, walking areas and park features and thereby support residents gaining the health benefits that pet ownership and interaction can bring.
Through compact development, Harmony is able to include viable habitat areas and parks within a short walk of every home. Backyard habitats for birds and butterflies are encouraged. A goal of keeping 70 percent of Harmony in open space assures the protection of meaningful blocks and corridors of habitat throughout the community. Miles of trails and nature-based amenities
facilitate the human-nature experience. A professional on-site conservation program assures that a quality environment and wildlife population is maintained and that people are allowed to enjoy them.
Small Footprint
Harmony subscribes to the principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in its efforts to eliminate waste and promote alternative energy sources.
Efforts are made to reduce the amount of waste generated. This includes not only avoiding the purchase of excess or unneeded materials, but also using materials efficiently.
Any surplus or excess materials are reused where possible. Construction waste is considered and stored for reuse, surplus disposable products are avoided and even surplus buildings and other structures are examined for second uses.
Harmony supports Osceola County’s recycling program for household waste and provides space for a community recycling center. Landscape and mowing waste is either allowed to return to the soil where it was produced or collected for appropriate composting or other reuse.
Alternatives to petroleum-based energy sources are favored and encouraged. This includes such measures as supporting neighborhood scale electronic vehicles in community design and in preferential access and parking and the use of energy conserving equipment, appliances and operational practices. Capturing solar and geo-thermal energy is demonstrated through practical uses such as domestic water heating, community pool warming, and electrical generation.
Sustaining Resources
Harmony strives to sustain its natural systems so that our grandchildren can get the same benefits that we enjoy.
Buck and Cat lakes are managed in a hands-off style: the shorelines are protected in their natural conditions and the only artificial things introduced to them are access walkways, community owned boats and fishing lines.
A network of treatment ponds cleans street and yard storm runoff and protects the quality of our wetlands and groundwater. Irrigation controls on public and private lands are responsive to landscape growing conditions and conserve water resources.
Street lighting, residential lighting and commercial lighting are provided in a way that protects the darkness and starshine of our night skies.
Every home is built to Energy Star or better standards to conserve energy. Harmony is planned to provide a convenient mix of land uses so its residents will be able to realize the potential to meet most daily needs within a short distance of their homes. The goal is to make walking, cycling or neighborhood type vehicles a viable first choice for transportation.
Spotlight on Harmony Golf Preserve
The Harmony Golf Preserve, a Troon Golf®-managed facility, is truly one of the finest golfing experiences you are likely to find anywhere in Florida – and all within easy strolling distance of your front porch.
The only Johnny Miller-designed golf course in Central Florida, the Preserve offers a challenging game to players of all skill levels – a 7,428 yard, 18-hole signature course, free of forced curves and arrayed carefully with bunkers, hazards and manicured Bermuda grass greens.
What truly distinguishes the Harmony Golf Preserve, however, is that it was designed from the start to serve first as a fully protected environmental preserve, and second as a world class recreational facility. As the course wraps around existing wetlands, golfers enjoying a relaxing day and may find themselves sharing the morning with their native animal neighbors. Engineered to serve as a fully functioning wildlife habitat, the Preserve was crafted to connect the Harmony community’s many smaller ecologies into a single environmentally intelligent and sustainable nature preserve system.
At nearby Harmony Town Square, golfer amenities include a 18,000-square-foot clubhouse, a fully stocked pro shop, men’s and ladies’ locker rooms, Harmony Town Tavern and a full-service banquet facility.
In 2007, Harmony served as an official host site for ESPN Golf Schools, a series of one-day golf classes for adults and juniors at all levels.
To reach the pro shop or schedule a tee time please call 407-891-8525 or go to www.harmonygolfpreserve.com
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