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Sarasota News Leader January 17, 2014 Page 21 Café in Siesta Village, shared Patterson's input" and provide details about how it plans concerns. to handle right of way issues at the intersection. The primary question the agency needs Although she was speaking from a personal to answer, she added, is "Just how exactly is standpoint only, Kouvatsos told the News [the roundabout] going to work?" Leader, "I don't think that's going to help crossing at all. … I don't think there's a thing Robinson concurred. "Maybe my fears can be wrong with that intersection." calmed by getting the details," she added. She had heard nothing about the project until the News Leader contacted her on Jan. 13, though she said she would make sure the plan is brought up at the SKVA's next regular meeting, on Feb. 4. The News Leader was unable to reach SKVA President Cheryl Gaddie. As with the Midnight Pass crosswalk project, Patterson said she felt the appropriate next steps for the proposal would be for the MPO members to suggest FDOT "get some public In concluding his Jan. 9 email to Robinson, Harriott wrote, "Mr. Nandam and I agreed that in the future, FDOT will notify County staff that the State is adding a project (specifically safety projects) to the work program so that County staff can provide a little background before the DRAFT work program is published. ... Although it may not change FDOT's direction to add these types of projects to the work program, advance notification will allow us to provide the Board and community more background information." % The most recent roundabout to open in the city of Sarasota is at Pineapple Avenue and Ringling Boulevard. It was completed in late spring of 2012. Photo by Norman Schimmel