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Sarasota News Leader October 4, 2013 • A first-floor balcony: 352. • Elevator and stairs for the first floor: 120. Page 59 projects following natural disasters or gradual erosion." The ordinance says those lines also were • A second-floor balcony: 352. designed to protect beaches as well as beach• Elevator and stairs for the second floor: 120. front dunes, bluffs and vegetation "necessary for maintaining shoreline stability …." The GBSL was established in Sarasota County During the Jan. 9 County Commission meetOrdinance 2004-010 to protect property from ing, Commissioner Nora Patterson, who lives flooding. Coastal parcels seaward of that line on Siesta Key, said she had seen the parcels "are hazard areas where development would where the Allens wanted to build the houses be subjected to erosion and storm wind, wave under water at various times over the past and surge," the ordinance says. The GBSL decades. County staff provided photos to and a Barrier Island Pass Twenty-Year Hazard illustrate that. Line were designed not only to protect public health, safety and welfare, the ordinance Because of the circumstances regarding the notes, but also to "[m]inimize future public history of the lots and that part of Siesta expenditures for flood and erosion control Key — with continuing erosion problems measures" and "[m]inimize future public on a nearby section of North Beach Road — expenditures for relief and/or restoration of Patterson continued, "It's really rough for me 2008 An aerial view shows the location of 162 Beach Road in 2008. Image courtesy Sarasota County