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| 4/17/2019

"Maybe there’s some point in the future where this is a good idea."

-- Sarasota City Commissioner Hagen Brody

The Sarasota City Commission had no appetite for a Fruitville Road “diet” staffers attempted to feed the board Monday night.

In a 3-2 vote, the commission shortly before midnight on Monday rejected an option the city staff had recommended to narrow Fruitville Road to two lanes between Cocoanut and Lemon avenues and construct roundabouts at Cocoanut, Central and Lemon avenue intersections — a type of project referred to as a “road diet.” 

Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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