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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 rienced, this one utilized local pictures. Citrus Square, the Palm Avenue parking garage, sites on Main Street and Palm Avenue and in other locales ��� like them or not? It was not a matter of ���What is your favorite?��� It was 12 choices for ���like��� or ���dislike.��� Modern, retro, Disneyesque and more: Whadda ya prefer? How wide a sidewalk do we want? Twelve feet? 20 feet? The more expansive sidewalk could be gained with no pain by eliminating parking on the south side of State Street. This is fundamentally a design for a parking garage, so killing 10 street spaces to pick up 400 in the building would not be a sacrifice. Page 35 Where will the elevator be placed? Do we park on a slope or flat slab? Is the roof reserved for parking in tropical swelter or could it be a green roof? Perhaps it could even be a pocket park or ��� gasp ��� a performing arts space? Nobody said, ���No.��� THE DRY DETAILS There are parameters. The site is 43,000 square feet on State Street between Orange and Lemon avenues. The city is budgeting $7.2 million to build it. And construction must be finished ��� over and done ��� by February 2015 under a complex contract between the city and the developers of Pineapple Square. Aside from an image of the current parking lot, this was the only drawing offered to audience members. It shows the first floor of the proposed parking garage with shops, an alley to the rear and access from both State Street and Charles Ringling Boulevard. Photo by Stan Zimmerman