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Sarasota News Leader October 11, 2013 Page 50 $75,000 on a feasibility study for the exten- One option is for an 8-mile multi-use trail sion; that study will result in several options parallel to the existing railway, so legal "reverand price tags. sionary claims" and the possibility of federal government payouts to landowners could be The total cost of that study is estimated at avoided, Dillon said. $100,000 to $150,000. The Friends of Sarasota County Parks, Friends of the Legacy Trail Under that option, the county would lease the and Sarasota entrepreneur Jesse Biter have land for the trail from Seminole Gulf Railway, offered to rally resident and business support which has a multi-decade lease for the railto raise funds for the project. road right of way from CSX. The U.S. 41 Venice Bypass pedestrian overpass for the Legacy Trail opened in November 2011. Photo by Norman Schimmel