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07/04/2013

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Sarasota News Leader July 4, 2013 Page 26 Lawyer Getzoff disagreed. She showed the commission a series of pictures and said the channel was visible as recently as 2005. And in 2009, there was a "remnant channel" leading to the boat basin at 4449 Bay Shore. "The state says if the channel was legally done originally … it can be maintained," she added. "It's a riparian right; it was originally legally done. And we have an easement from the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund …" "In my 25 years with the city, I cannot recall any citizen ever requesting a 400 foot 'maintenance dredge' to get to the inter-coastal waterway [sic], in a channel that has nearly completely silted in and now has sea grass growing in the area where the channel was located," Litchet wrote in a June 19 memo to City Manager Tom Barwin. New College Professor Jono Miller addresses the County Commission earlier this year. File photo Environmental regulations have been designed to help seagrass flourish, because of its importance in the cycle of sea life. Image courtesy of NOAA

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