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Sarasota News Leader July 19, 2013 Page 40 Atwell. "I did any and all. How do you distin- A BLANKET BIG ENOUGH FOR A CITY? guish between one group and another? I want Laurel Park is an enclave neighborhood, selless rules and regs." dom visited because it is almost exclusively Chapman moved to table the discussion to residential. It is a "time warp" neighborhood a future meeting, but that action failed 2-3 of Craftsman-style bungalows and duplexes (Chapman and Atwell in the minority). Shaw built in the 1920s during that bright but brief then moved to send the issue back to staff, but time called the Florida Land Boom. that failed for lack of a second. It is blessed and cursed to be adjacent to downtown, and it is surrounded by zoning allowing skyscrapers to loom over the cottages. It is a neighborhood that long stood in the trenches of land-use warfare in the city. Its residents are knowledgeable and tenacious, He later asked, "Does this mean we're not giving any proclamations until we get this and they love where they live. figured out?" Over the years they have struggled to devise Atwell responded, "We should just use the sta- some mechanism to preserve their island of mostly one-story homes in the midst of a potus quo." The commission was momentarily stumped. Then Chapman moved to ask Atwell to make "revisions to the policy as our senior commissioner." Caragiulo seconded that, and the motion passed unanimously. The City Commission has approved a new overlay district for construction near Laurel Park. Photo by Norman Schimmel