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Sarasota News Leader December 14, 2012 Page 18 ���We���re going to meet about it,��� van Roekens Noting that the requests for the variances said of the Terrace East board. ���It���s not a good were filed with the county in October, Luckthing.��� ner said, ���We found [it] ��� unusual��� that notices had not gone out sooner. When SKA Director Bob Waechter asked whether the requests involved parcels north In response to Sarasota News Leader quesof the Terrace building, van Roekens replied, tions about the situation, Howard Berna, en���Yes,��� adding, ���There are dunes on them.��� vironmental supervisor in the county���s Natural Resources Department, said in an email, ���The The lots are vacant, van Roekens said in refirst [county] code-required mailing was postsponse to another question from Waechter, though houses stand on lots adjacent to them. ed on December 3 by the applicant���s agent. A second required mailing will also be posted by Whenever someone wants to build a structure the applicant���s agent on or about December outside the boundary of the county���s coastal 21.��� setback line, SKA President Catherine Luckner noted, the law requires adjacent property Each current notice says, ���A second mailing will be sent to the appropriate neighborhood owners to be notified of the fact. associations and all property owners within Luckner pointed out that the Gulf Beach Set- 500 feet of the property boundaries at a minback Line was established to prevent property imum of fifteen days prior to the public heardamage as a result of storms. ���We take it pret- ing.��� ty seriously,��� she added. Berna continued in his email, ���The mailing ad���Frequently, we get [notices] because we rep- dresses are based on available property apresent the residential community,��� she said. praiser records linked to our [Geographical ���In this case, we did not get one.��� Information System (GIS)] and it is quite pos- A Sarasota County GIS map shows the two lots that are the focus of the variance requests on Beach Road: 0080-24-0027 and 0080-24-0028, to the left of the Terrace building. Image courtesy Sarasota County