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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 Utilize the places and the people and the opportunities that are there, that can work together, and get some of this energy that seems to be out there and ripe for things. Page 28 This shows what happens when you don���t have the foresight to require this when the neighborhood is developed. But that���s what we���ve had: development without foresight. Nothing is off the table, but we can take a look When there are sidewalks, people use them. at particular areas of the city where it makes And bike lanes: People use them. I love the sense to grow there. idea on Old Bradenton Road [where] they are painting the bike paths green. They���re putting ��� ��� ��� chickee huts at both ends for the bus stops D. In Newtown virtually all streets have and painting the bike paths green. It���s really sidewalks (many on both sides of the an exciting project. They���ve waited 14 years street), curbs and gutters. A majority of for it. the streets elsewhere in town have none of that. Is it time for the city to pay the But this is going to set an example for how to same attention in other neighborhoods? do a ���complete street.��� The light fixtures are decorative, and it will create a real impetus Atwell: [Resident] Andy Dror comes to me all for that [Bayou Oaks] neighborhood. the time in McClellan Park and the sidewalks are a mess. This was last year. We don���t have One of the hard parts for the neighborhood the staff, and lost five landscape people. Some is, they took away their name, Old Bradenton of our good neighborhoods are a mess. Again, Road. Now they have to fight to get their name services, and upgrade of infrastructure. back. I want to look at mobility fees, and increased ��� ��� ��� density downtown. Bird Key doesn���t have D. In Newtown virtually all streets have sidewalks. sidewalks (many on both sides of the ��� ��� ��� street), curbs and gutters. A majority of D. In Newtown virtually all streets have the streets elsewhere in town have none sidewalks (many on both sides of the of that. Is it time for the city to pay the street), curbs and gutters. A majority of same attention in other neighborhoods? the streets elsewhere in town have none Holland: Yes. of that. Is it time for the city to pay the same attention in other neighborhoods? ��� ��� ��� Chapman: Boy, is that a hard one. All infrastructure issues in built-up areas become fighting issues. I would love to have sidewalks throughout, love to have complete streets where pedestrians and bicyclists and other transit can be used. But it is a really difficult issue. Does everybody deserve a sidewalk? Holland: I think everybody who wants a sidewalk, yes. In our neighborhood, and we have sidewalks on both sides and some on one side, but on Fourth Street they don���t even have any sidewalks on one portion.