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Overbrook Gardens Association
Serving Members
of a 538 Home Boating Community on Forked Creek's North Banks |
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Community Affairs The Overbrook Gardens
Association is incorporated in the State of Florida. The Association is a member
of three regional homeowner groups: the
Elected Officials for
Our Area
State Representative Doug Holder:
District 70
State Senator Nancy Detert:
District 23
U.S.
Representative Vern Buchanan:
District 13
The Board of Directors approved a $17, 451 Association budget for 2011 at
the January Board of Directors meeting. Copies will be made available at the
February business meeting.
Click
here
to view it online in PDF format.
Click
here
for the 2010 end of year report. You can download the free Adobe
Reader
here
Bylaws
The
much needed update to the Association's Articles of
Incorporation and Bylaws was completed on Nov. 15, 2007. They
can be read online at these links:
Maps
Click here for
the Google map of this area. Drag the cursor to move the map.
History of
Overbrook Gardens
Someone sent in a copy of a newspaper article that shows the old Bridge
St. bridge that crossed Forked Creek before Overbrook Gardens was developed.
Click here
for the complete article and the picture. Also, while digging through the
Associations archives
this photo and article in the Herald Tribune
dated 2/10/66 was found. Apparently there was some controversy surrounding
the removal of the bridge. An
early aerial photograph of Overbrook Gardens, apparently taken for a real estate
brochure in the late 1950s, was found in Ed Bohon's archives. His house at 1953
Fairview Dr. was built in 1960, one of earliest houses built in Overbrook.
Note that his house is not in the photo.
Click here to view the photo. Note
the Bridge St. bridge and the Englewood Isles (now) shoreline that extends into
North Forked Creek. This no longer exists and we have, instead, the placid
basin between Fairview and Forked Creek Drives and Englewood Isles. A
perfect turning area for raising and lowering sails! You can also plainly
see the shoal at the entrance to Greenlawn Channel. Also note the absence
of "native" Mangroves----anywhere!!!
Lot 12 Mangrove Damage
Photos
of the 2008 mangrove damage.
Executed consent order, June 2, 2009
Attachments to executed consent order, June 2, 2009
Adobe Acrobat Reader
is required to view the time zero and status reports. Click
here
Sign installation report, Jul. 6, 2009
Time zero report, Sept.
2, 2009
Status report, due Sept. 2,
2012
Final
DEP inspection of
restoration area, required after Sept. 2, 2013 |
Southwest Sarasota County Alliance of
Homeowners; the Sarasota Council of Neighborhood Associations, and the Lemon Bay
League, the later of which is a group of homeowner, businesses, and professional
people from both Sarasota and Charlotte Counties, who promote common planning
and seek solutions to regional problems affecting the greater Englewood area. Various members of the Board of Directors periodically attend
seminars on subjects such as: development of grants applications, disaster
preparation, and neighborhood leadership development: and when appropriate, they
attend meetings of such groups as the Englewood Area Planning Advisory Board,
The Englewood Community Redevelopment Authority, the Sarasota County Planning
Commission, and the Sarasota County Commission. Participation in all of these
activities gives Overbrook Gardens a greater voice in community affairs as well
as access to a broad base of knowledge on what is going on and how to get help
when necessary. For information on current community activities see
