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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 Page 62 OCT. 9 OCT. 10 As the first decade of the St. Armands Business Improvement District draws to a close, property owners are increasingly concerned about parking. New restrictions have them shaking their heads during the BID meeting. What was supposed to be a uniform policy of parking enforcement has turned into a hot topic. Several months ago, the Sarasota City Commission decided parking enforcement for downtown and St. Armands Circle should be treated equally. ���We���ve had a tsunami of complaints about parking tickets,��� says Eric Seace with the St. Armands Circle Association. ���If you move to another spot, you still get a ticket.��� The ���uniform policy��� works not according to how long a motorist parks in one space, but how long the car is in ���the zone.��� The Sarasota County Schools is serving 15,497 free meals and 3,009 reduced-price lunches to students every day. The number reflects 47 percent of all lunches the district serves, Lisa Wood, resource manager in the Food and Nutrition Services Department, tells The Sarasota News Leader this week. However, that number is changing daily, Wood says. ���One hundred to 200 applications a day are still coming in,��� Wood adds. This school year, Wood expects to see the district hit the 50 percent mark for the total number of students receiving free or reduced-price meals. That is about the same percentage district staff recorded last year, she says. The Sarasota City Commission stipulated earlier this year that parking enforcement for St. Armands Circle be no different than it is for downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel