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04/26/2013

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Sarasota News Leader April 26, 2013 Page 13 transportation planning manager, the developer would pay $31,822 as its proportionate share for improvements, whereas the total cost would be $528,012. In response to an earlier question from Patterson, Wiggins said the county does not have funding in its budget for that work. Patterson countered that the comprehensive plan change was necessary because the current zoning would not allow as intense a use of the parcel as requested. "By [rezoning] it to Commercial Corridor," she said, "what we're doing is essentially expanding the square footage of retail that's usable." "I think what the Legislature did to us … is just incomprehensible," Patterson added. "I would hope we would find [the road improvement] affordable and go ahead and do it," she continued. In terms of the county's transportation spending, she said, "It's not a humongous bill." "My intent was not to get into a back-and-forth with you," Robinson told Patterson, noting that the current zoning already would allow similar uses. "It is a slight increase" in intensity, she added. Regarding the rezoning: Robinson made the motion, with Barbetta seconding it. Patterson told her fellow board members, "I travel that road all the time, and it really does "Something's going on that property," Barbetta have a lot of traffic." pointed out, noting the pastor of the River's Commissioner Joe Barbetta made the motion Edge Community Church already had testified to amend the comprehensive plan to make the that his congregation wants to sell the prop41,180-square-foot Walmart possible. "This is erty. a commercial corridor," he pointed out. "The (Pastor David McCoy said during the public land uses are there." hearing that the church members decided to In seconding that motion, Commissioner put the property on the market in the fall of Christine Robinson concurred. The future 2010. It actually went on the market in Decemland-use designation "has been in place" for ber 2010, added the church's Realtor, who was that parcel, she noted. "I hear what the resi- in the audience. That was "way before anydents are saying," she added, "[but] this is a body came and offered us a sales contract," McCoy told the commissioners.) reasonable use for the property." A panoramic view shows the River's Edge Community Church at the southwest intersection of Bee Ridge and Beneva Roads in Sarasota. Photo by Robert Hackney

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