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Sarasota News Leader July 19, 2013 Page 87 Siesta Seen OLD STICKNEY POINT ROAD LIGHTING "They feel [Old Stickney Point Road] is very Yet a third ongoing topic has been reprised in recent county memos to the commission. This one concerns the interest of business owners on or near Old Stickney Point Road in seeing better illumination installed in that area for pedestrians. In early February, Commissioner Patterson asked staff to begin investigating what it would take to get lighting installed along the road. She was responding to a request from Dave Stewart, one of the owners of Captain Curt's Crab & Oyster Bar, and Aledia Tush, co-owner of CB's Saltwater Outfitters. dark and dangerous at night and a deterrent to the folks visiting businesses and restaurants," Patterson wrote Chief Engineer Harriott in a Feb. 1 email. "Their preference would be decorative lighting as was originally planned when the area was improved with sidewalks and pedestrian crosswalks [about 10 years ago]. They believe the little park at the end would benefit as well and apparently the condo down at that end is supportive of that also." During his report to the County Commission for the week of July 1, Harriott noted: "Cost estimates are being provided (as requested) to the property owners for two options: Power lines are visible along Old Stickney Point Road, but no light poles stand on the street. Photo by Rachel Hackney