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Sarasota News Leader August 2, 2013 Page 86 Siesta Seen Luckner's husband, Bob, is the coordinator of even eggs about to hatch — if they feel threatened by dogs. the Audubon volunteers on the island. "We know now ANY footprint [in] the buffer THE CONSERVATION constitutes a legal violation and also criminal EASEMENT PATH MATTER mischief if the physical property of the buffer On a related matter, Luckner told me her husis damaged," she pointed out. band had "to be very firm" with the new ownIn addition to that extensive destruction, she er of the condominium complex at 612 Beach reported, a person continues to walk a large Road, on the land side of the conservation dog daily "on a long lead" in the area of Ac- easement area near Access 10. cesses 3 and 4. As I reported earlier in the News Leader, A Sarasota County ordinance makes it il- county staff advised the owner and his legal legal to have a dog on the beach, because representative that the path to the beach can beach-nesting birds will abandon nests — be no wider than 4 feet. A News Leader staff The path through the conservation easement near Beach Accesses 9 and 10 is required to be no more than 4 feet wide. News Leader measurements found it to be as much as 9 feet wide in places. Photo by Robert Hackney