Gone is the vision of a two-story Bobby Jones Golf Course clubhouse with wraparound veranda offering a panoramic view of the course and, farther in the distance, the adjacent nature park.
Gone is the second-floor restaurant sized to accommodate special and private events with the cart barn below. In addition, gone is $544,211 the city already paid Jon F. Swift Construction to design all that as the blueprints are shelved, perhaps applied to another project for another client in another location. That figure does not include $126,071 added for two on-course bathroom structures and golf cart storage for a total of $670,282.
And also gone, at least for one meeting of the Sarasota City Commission, is the traditionally collegial atmosphere at the dais…