"Have you seen (your bayfront)? It is such a collection of incoherent junk," says Andrés Duany, an influential planner of downtown Sarasota who is known as the "father of New Urbanism."
Conversion of 6-mile stretch of abandoned railway running parallel to Ludlam Road into a lushly landscaped trail for people on foot and on bikes could be finished in 2029.
Hamilton County Commissioner Warren Mackey, D-Lake Vista, is often abrupt and sometimes obtuse during commission meetings, but he also is consistently supportive of growth and development in Hamilton County.