Site for a new Lake Manatee EMS station is under fire

Site for a new Lake Manatee EMS station is under fire

Manatee County commissioners have delayed an application for a proposed 4,740-square-foot EMS station at 1505 Dam Road, near Lake Manatee. As the board clearly was leaning toward denial at the land use meeting Dec. 4, Commission Chair George Kruse offered the option of deferring the item, and Deputy County Administrator Bryan Parnell accepted the offer. The current 1,196-square-foot EMS station sits on the same 10-acre site where the new station…