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before a Code Enforcement Special Magistrate on May 23, when they will provide an update on the completion of a "punch list" of items created by county Building Department staff. All those items must be finished before the restaurant can get its Certificate of Occupancy. At the conclusion of a March 21 Code Enforcement hearing, Special Magistrate Meg Wittmer established a timeline for Bob's Boathouse to complete the punch list: 120 days to submit a lighting plan to the county, 90 days for watercourse buffer requirements and 60 days for the remaining 10 items. The May 23 hearing will start at 9 a.m. in the County Commission Chambers in the Sarasota County Administration Center at 1660 Ringling Blvd. in downtown Sarasota. One other item that should have been on the original punch list involved the planting of 36 trees on the site, Aker explained on May 13. Bob's Boathouse was cited by the county for wrongfully removing trees and ordered to replace them, he said. That issue was on a sep- arate track from the other punch list items, he continued. New trees were planted, and the matter was resolved in the past couple of weeks to the satisfaction of county Natural Resources Department staff, he noted. "So that was, frankly, quite an accomplish- ment," Aker added. One item that has proven problematic, he pointed out, has been capping off the existing water line at the rear of the lift station. He said he preferred not to cast any blame in regard to that matter, especially because it appears it will be resolved next week. "It's just been one thing after another. … Once that gets done," he noted, "then the fence around that lift sta- tion can be put in." Bob's Boathouse also is making substantial progress on the lighting plan it has to submit to county staff, he said. "I'm optimistic that we're going to get this [list of items] done." % Work remains to be done around the lift station on the grounds. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader May 16, 2014 Page 14