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Sarasota News Leader May 24, 2013 es of county property known as the "Quads" — near the intersection of Palmer Boulevard and Apex Road — Commissioner Christine Robinson pointed to potential drawbacks of those sites, including the fact they are in an area that could flood. Page 28 outweigh it. … It just doesn't make any sense to me to locate [the Sheriff's Office and EOC] apart." "I think we should be choosing the ideal and safest site," Commissioner Nora Patterson added, "and I think [the Cattlemen property] "When we were placing the EOC," she said, "it is it." was a painful process to choose the property. "I can accept putting [the sheriff's new facilWe would not even consider putting it in any ities] at Cattlemen Road," Barbetta told his sort of flood zone …" colleagues, but he felt the best option was one While she added that she respected Barbetta's Gable showed that called for an eight-story position about not building on prime highway administrative and joint training facility with frontage, "the benefits [of the Cattlemen site] parking beneath it. That would still enable County staff proposed Sheriff's Office campus options at the intersection of Palmer Boulevard and Apex Road. Image courtesy Sarasota County