Longboat Key’s beach plan and the work of its engineering consultant, Coastal Planning and Engineering (CPE), were vindicated by a peer review at a special Friday, May 27 workshop

In the face of many fears and reservations, the community center concept plan will be further refined and vetted by the Town Commission as the board seeks to fast track the project

The Sarasota County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 this Wednesday to accept County Administrator Jim Ley’s resignation. The resignation included paying Ley $265,000 in salary and benefits, plus approximately $15,000 in accrued vacation pay and about $24,000 for three years of post-employment health care. County Commissioner Joseph Barbetta was the dissenting vote. Although the payout [...]

The Longboat Key Town Commission authorized spending $4,200 as a base cost to purchase each member a $600 Apple iPad. The purchase was decided after several commissioners spent a brief period testing the product and reaching the consensus that it was an efficiency to be able to receive e-mails and town information in a consolidated [...]

In what he called a “frustrating relationship,” LLSA Chamber President Tom Aposporos told Town Commission this week that working to help build ridership on the trolley is difficult due to a lack of clear communication with the county trolley operators. Aposporos made the remarks to the Town Commission in an update in which he said [...]

I met with Chris Bonn of Jay Cashman Inc., at their field office in the old Whitney Beach Plaza on Longboat Key. This is across Gulf of Mexico Drive from the site of the nearly completed beach nourishment project on the North End. I had visited the beach site to see the almost white sand recently placed there. Jay Cashman Inc. is a 100-year-old privately held family firm. Its headquarters is at the old Quincy Shipyard in Massachusetts

Hurricane Season begins June 1 and runs through November. Longboat Key is in a particularly vulnerable Level A evacuation zone, which could lead to evacuation during a pending hurricane. The town of Longboat Key in partnership with Sarasota and Manatee counties provide a program to assist those citizens requiring evacuation assistance due to medical condition [...]

Real estate company owner and former resident Michael Saunders wrote the following letter to the town of Longboat Key, asking for support of a request to extend the timeline for the Bleu Claire Condominium permit. Here is what she wrote: To: Town Commission The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board recently denied a request for [...]

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