Planning for Pinecraft: Sarasota's Amish and Mennonite Community

Sarasota's Amish and Mennonite community Pinecraft has endured tourists, gawkers and a four-lane road cutting through their community over the years, and now they're faced with how to plan for the future.
Sarasota County held a community planning meeting Tuesday for Pinecraft to make life easier for those on bike, on foot and on the gas pedal.
This isn't some outsider county government coming in to plan for Pinecraft as this project holds a personal importance to Teresa Mast who works for the county's community outreach department.
"With the last name Mast you probably already know I'm from a Mennonite background. At least my husband is — his parents were raised Amish," Mast told the crowd at Tourist Church. "This community is very near and dear to my personal family just because of my husband's heritage, and I'm very blessed to

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