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Federal government has paid $1.4 million in claims in ongoing Legacy Trail cases
SARASOTA – The federal government recently paid about $1.4 million in claims to 30 Sarasota County landowners who saw some of their property seized as part of the northern extension of the popular Legacy Trail project.
The abandoned Seminole Gulf Railway corridor is being converted into the Legacy Trail for biking and hiking under the National Trails System Act of 1983.
The money is paid from a Judgment Fund set up by the Treasury Department and not the $65 million bond approved by Sarasota County voters in 2018 to pay for extending the trail north to Payne Park in Sarasota and east through public land in North Port.