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Sarasota News Leader December 20, 2013 Page 88 Siesta Seen "As you know, we have no streetlights hereabouts," the writer continued. "If someone went off the road they would drop down into a hole and have a terrible accident, [slamming] up against the wall which the county has allowed to be created. I would think that, since the county allowed this hole to be dug and this wall to be built, and in [essence] the county owns the wall, [it] would be liable when, as has happened in the past, some drunk or otherwise impaired driver comes roaring down the road, gets lost, and slams into the hole which has been permitted." Please look into this for me." Patterson quickly emailed county staff, requesting a review of the situation, including whether it constituted an encroachment on county right of way. As Patterson had copied the resident on her response to staff, the resident responded to Patterson with the conviction that the situation did constitute an encroachment, explaining that the swale was created to allow water to flow past the residences and into the canal at the south end of Higel Avenue. The writer went on, "Even with the gentle Over the years, the woman pointed out, culswale, a car rolled into my driveway after verts had been closed, allowing a backup of water to the north in heavy rain events. "This missing the road some years ago … The swale is adjacent to Higel Avenue. Photo courtesy Sarasota County