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Sarasota News Leader February 22, 2013 After a long evening of staff presentations and public comments, staff hoped the Planning Board would keep to the schedule, stamp ���OK��� on the plan and send it to the City Commission for consideration in March. It does not look as though it is going to work out that way. Page 55 Partnership will meet and consider some of our comments.��� In fact there is already an overlay district in place for the North Tamiami Trail. So the new one could be called ���Son of NTOD,��� and it uses administrative site plan approval. That is a sticking point with neighbors and at least ���Can we go off schedule and take six months?��� one Planning Board member. asked Planning Board Member Chris Gallagher. He turned to his colleagues and asked, ���The administrative approval is worrisome,��� ���How many comments do you have?��� said Ahearn-Koch. ���Not one neighborhood has ���At least 50,��� said Vald Svekis. ���Me too,��� said signed on to this, and that���s an issue. You have to have buy-in from the neighborhoods.��� Jennifer Ahearn-Koch. ���We should go off schedule,��� said Chapman. The current NTOD gives builders flexibility. ���And I hope the North Trail Redevelopment Someone constructing a project could utilize A federal map from 2011 shows planned and existing bus rapid transit systems in the U.S. Map courtesy Sarasota County