The town of Longboat Key has officially ‘appealed the appeal’ of the Islandside development order in an effort to get the project back on track after it was derailed last December in circuit court.

The Longboat Key Club redevelopment approval has been overturned in a Sarasota courtroom, and both Town Attorney Dave Persson and Key Club attorney John Patterson are confident an appeal would be met with success for a number of reasons.

  Longboat Key’s popular endurance race, the Longboat Key Triathlon and Duathlon, is set to take place this Sunday, Oct. 23. The race, featuring a half-mile swim in the lagoon adjacent to Longboat Key Club & Resort, will be followed by a 20-mile bike ride along Gulf of Mexico Drive and a five-mile run that [...]

In the very near future, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of the University of Florida Law School renaming a building to honor Longboat Key. With the economy in Florida in the doldrums, lawsuits involving Longboat Key are a godsend to dozens if not hundreds of families who work for law firms

They say you have the experience of feeling sure that you have already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. I think I witnessed déjà vu all over again, as Yogi used to say, in Town Hall on a rainy summer day

The U.S. Supreme Court almost never renders a unanimous decision. In many, too many for me, the decision is split almost down the middle, 4-5.

However, on Longboat Key, whenever anyone raises the question of the allocation of density for the two large PUDS, Harbourside and Islandside, the answer is always the same: attorney William Pomeroy

Last week I was talking with a fellow resident who also happens to be on the Board of Trustees at Penn State. We got to discussing local university issues. I mentioned that I thought one of his colleagues was a pain in the a**. He said it is beneficial to have someone like that on a board. It forces you to clarify and rethink your own position

Many Longboaters were thrilled last week when front-page news in the Longboat Observer stated that the Longboat Key Club would in fact build a hotel first, as soon as the legal challenges to its approved redevelopment plan are over

The town is once again addressing the idea of constructing a community center. Some are questioning how the center is to be financed. The question I ask: is Longboat Key enough of a community to need a center?

The Department of Community Affairs submitted their ORC (Objections, Recommendations and Comments) report this week in response to the latest proposed amendments to the town’s Comprehensive Plan