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will "set the bar on what village development will look like." Patterson supported those changes — they passed unanimously — but she was eventu- ally the only "No" vote on the third phase of the 2050 changes, which will now go through a public comment phase and return to the Planning Commission and then the County Commission. A tentative end date for that process is scheduled for right before this November's general election. During an evening session on Wednesday, Patterson voted with the rest of the com- mission to approve a number of further 2050 revisions that originally came before the board in March. That move ratified proposed changes such as allowing developers to count stormwater ponds as open space, permitting them to reduce greenbelts between commer- cial centers and roadways and reducing New Urbanist design standards. There was little public comment at all on this week's 2050 changes, and as Parsons noted, "very little feedback" from the state agen- cies that review local comprehensive plan changes. The Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, for example, found that the second-phase changes "will not signifi- cantly impact the resources and facilities of the County and will provide more econom- ically viable developments for the future of the County and region." % The recent sale of more than 1,000 acres of cattle pasture at the intersection of Fruitville and Singletary roads in eastern Sarasota County has spurred speculation that a developer has been awaiting Sarasota 2050 changes before proceeding with a proposal for the property. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader May 23, 2014 Page 31