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Sarasota News Leader November 29, 2013 Page 95 Siesta Seen Berna told me on Nov. 22 that staff had inves- Administrator Lee Ann Lowery and his departtigated the complaint about work Sarasota ment boss, Amy Meese, on Nov. 1: Audubon volunteers had observed on the "Natural Resources staff conducted a site path. inspection earlier today and documented A volunteer reported that someone was "actu- unauthorized clearing activity within a dune ally digging up the natural sod" beside that for a path. We informed the person conducting path on the Gulf side of 644 Beach Road. "To the work to cease as there are some regulatory my way of thinking it was a site location vio- issues with the Coastal Setback ordinance to lation and a physical violation of the naturally address. There are two property owners that vegetated dune surface," the volunteer wrote are involved. We have been in contact with — and the underscores are his emphasis. both owners and we will continue working to resolve the compliance matter." In response, Matt Osterhoudt, the resource protection manager in the Natural Resources Berna explained to me that when the Arbisser Department, wrote to Assistant County family sold the property at 644 Beach Road to The property owned by the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast has been popular with nesting Snowy Plovers in years past. File photo