P&Z to review codes for Key Club plan

The Planning and Zoning Board will hold a meeting at 9 a.m., April 6, in Town Hall to review seven of the town’s codes as suggested by the Longboat Key Club at the previous Town Commission meeting. The commission voted to send the Key Club proposal back to the Planning and Zoning Board when the Key Club’s attorney, John Patterson, suggested that if there were further clarification on the seven codes, then there would be no more confusion on either side regarding whether the Key Club’s plan should be approved.

Planning and Zoning Director Monica Simpson wrote an e-mail March 17 to the Planning and Zoning Board members that the board will review the Key Club’s code amendment request for its $400 million Islandside redevelopment project for the entire day Tuesday.

If the board is not finished and another meeting is needed, they will meet from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, April 8.

Key Club attorneys are hoping the code clarifications, as they describe them, will eliminate code ambiguities and move the project forward to a Town Commission vote while eliminating many of the legal challenges presented by attorneys for the Islandside Property Owners Coalition, which opposes the project.