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a Cat 3, we're above the 35-foot height restric- tions," said Cross. "That will require a G-zone waiver," pointed out the city's senior building and zoning offi- cial, Gretchen Schneider. "And that will set the project back quite a bit." The waiver will necessitate a "community workshop" be held for review of the plan, and it will take about three weeks to set up that session. "You can't come back to the DRC before that is done," she told Cross. The delay could mean the next DRC review would be pushed back to October, a 60-day delay. The project has already been discussed during a substantial number of community and public meetings since the crew with the first engineering design firm walked off the job. The city soon followed that action with a lawsuit, and then it hired McKim & Creed to replace the original firm. A new design for the facility was debuted at the DRC meeting. The previous plan was based on the old Hover Arcade, a bayfront building that served as City Hall for decades. Its arched doorways and twin towers provided the motif for the Lift Station 87 architects. After a public discussion of the design, the decision was reached to make the building features symmetrical as viewed from either the street or the nearby Central Park condo- miniums. That meant a four tower-design, which was revealed on July 14. However, at the DRC meeting, two of the towers had van- ished from the drawings. Cross later told The Sarasota News Leader the change was "to better mirror the old Hover Arcade." % During a July meeting, city staff and a consultant debuted a 'flyover' video showing the Lift Station 87 design with four towers. Photo of illustration by Stan Zimmerman Sarasota News Leader August 8 & 15, 2014 Page 26