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Siesta Seen reorder the boat trailer parking?" Patterson emailed back. "Also how many spots could it actually add and how many are there now?" Brown asked county Project Manager Brad W. Gaubatz to respond with details. He wrote that the original concept plan pre- pared for the park shows 38 trailer parking spaces. While the number "could physically fit," he continued, he doubted they would be user-friendly. "As a frequent user of the Ken Thompson boat ramps and shell lot," he added, "I don't think parallel parking works for boat trailers" unless the spaces are designed for pull-through use and have a long run-up "to straighten out the trailer," so drivers do not have to turn on a tight radius. Furthermore, Gaubatz wrote, drivers using half of the spaces would need to pull out onto Blind Pass Road. "We have reviewed this with the Site and Development staff and have been told this is not likely to be allowed (despite the current on-street perpendicular park- ing). The new diagonal layout at Blackburn Point Park's east node is a much better model." Gaubatz pointed out that if they were angled, the number of pull-through spaces that could be provided at Turtle Beach would be closer to 20. If back-to-back spaces could fit in an angled layout, he noted, "the number An aerial view shows the section of Turtle Beach where improvements will be undertaken. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sarasota News Leader August 1, 2014 Page 78