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Siesta Seen parking will be an improvement to past park- ing practices." One resident on the street did request some cleanup work and general maintenance at the beach park," Harriott noted, referring to Beach Access 1, which is at the west end of North Shell Road. Those requests would be forwarded to the Parks and Recreation Department for review, he wrote. By the way, the post-and-rope design provides even more protection for the fire hydrant on the street, it appears. Still, the posts previ- ously planted in front of the hydrant did not deter people from parking next to it, in direct violation of the law. That was a point Harriott made to the County Commission on April 9, before it voted to approve the public parking plan for North Shell Road. "I don't get it. I don't understand it," Harriott told the commissioners. "As long as I've been alive, I think, it's been illegal to park in front of a fire hydrant. People [here] do it all the time." "I don't get it," was exactly what Maroney said on July 7, too, when he and I also discussed that same point. ROBERTS POINT ROAD WORRIES While the contractor was at work on North Shell Road's new designated spaces, residents on Roberts Point Road — whose entrance is right across Higel Avenue from North Shell Road — were becoming alarmed at the Roberts Point Road is on the east side of Higel Avenue, across from the entrance to North Shell Road. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader July 11, 2014 Page 67