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Sarasota News Leader February 22, 2013 Page 26 per acre, but how are you going to handle the on your list you actually want to accomplish traffic? And it turns out we have a problem and you work to accomplish them. The North with sewers, too ��� all these sewer problems Trail is way high on my list. we���ve been having. I���ve spoken to a lot of people about it ��� spoWe���ve got a number of infrastructure prob- ken to builders, spoken to developers, spoken lems we have to grapple with the next time to neighborhood people. You have a plethosomething comes before the board. With 800 ra of different zoning up there, and a lot of projects already approved and 12 large build- it is outmoded, outdated. It doesn���t work; it ings, that���s a lot of building to be done. But doesn���t allow you to optimize what we have. they���re not being built because it is not ecoEven on a node-by-node basis, I would like nomical. to see changes. I don���t think an 11-acre plot I called up [Sarasota County Area Transit], should be treated the same as a half-acre plot. and they said they had a 10-year improvement And vice versa. So with administrative review plan. It costs $700 million. But they won���t be ��� everything is within code and ready to go, able to keep up with what the developers boom, boom, boom ��� yes, let���s do it. Let���s try want to do. We have to do something differ- to streamline this process. ent about transportation and look at sewers and other infrastructure if we go with a Fort When we have issues that require zoning changes, code changes, land-use changes, Lauderdale skyline. then we have to look at it on a case-by-case ��������� basis. But I am an advocate of changing the Would you favor expanding adminis- zoning, but not on a wholesale basis. Really, trative site plan approval to the North it comes down to almost a beyond node-bynode, but almost parcel-by-parcel in a lot of Trail? cases. Dorfman: Yes I would. ��������� Citywide? Would you favor expanding adminisDorfman: No. trative site plan approval to the North So this is case-by-case, neighbor- Trail? hood-by-neighborhood? Lumpkin: I would certainly consider that. I Dorfman: Even node by node. When I ran the last time, and this time, the North Trail is my bug-a-boo. That is one of the two or three causes I have if I sit on the City Commission. lean to supporting that. Supporting administrative approval is not tantamount to muting the voice of the people. Some would suggest ��� if you support administrative approval ��� that���s how you feel. When you go in as a commissioner, you should not go in completely reactive. You should go in For me, that���s not the case. How do we have to be proactive. You have to have a few items an efficient process and give potential inves-