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Sarasota News Leader September 6, 2013 Page 61 Patterson was joined by Mason and Commis- ance of 13 feet 6 inches," because emergency sioner Christine Robinson in approving the vehicles "are substantially wider and taller motion. than passenger vehicles …" The width of the In his Aug. 16 memo to the County Commis- travel area is designed to enable one emergension, Tobias wrote, "Surveys by Fire Depart- cy vehicle to move around another one that ment staff over the past several months have is parked, "as would be the case if an Ambuidentified that several streets in this area be- lance needed to move past a Fire Engine to come congested with overflow parking on access a patient," the memo continues. weekends and impassable to Emergency Vehi"If we could make parking spots in some cles during special events. Avenida de Mayo is the worst example with Calle Minorga, Calle way," Patterson told her colleagues, "it might Menorca and Avenida Madera also affected to be possible to do some parking on either side or both sides of the street, just not as much a lesser degree." as there is today." The memo goes on to explain that the National Fire Protection Association Code "requires However, Tobias wrote, "Recognizing that access roads to have an unobstructed width of Fire/EMS, residential and business activities not less than 20 feet and clear vertical clear- must coexist and that the roads [in that area An aerial view shows the location of Avenida de Mayo just outside Siesta Village. Image courtesy Sarasota County