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Commission approves final ULI questions

Commission approves final ULI questions

The town commission hopes the results will provide implementable solutions to everything from zoning and land use policy to whether we need a community center.

June 18, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

Final Urban Land Institute questions and contract

Final Urban Land Institute questions and contract

Below are the final questions the Town Commission agreed on Monday to send to the Urban Land Institute in an attmpt to develop long-range planning strategies. The ULI will come to Longboat Key in October to interview about 100 representative residents and interested parties and deliver a summery report before leaving and a final written [...]

June 18, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

Town tangos with telecommunications

Town tangos with telecommunications

The new code proposes to allow a cell tower of up to 110 feet on all sites on Longboat Key, except for town owned property which will have a limit of 100 feet.

June 17, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

Town removes cell tower height controls

Town removes cell tower height controls

The Commission decided not to put the restrictive language in the Comprehensive Plan, but instead decided it will adopt land-use regulations down the road.

June 12, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

Good grief

Good grief

Yet another wake up call that we need to work on the basics of our Zoning Laws and the due process that they are supposed to provide to Applicants and to Citizens.

June 12, 2013 | Posted in Opinion, Top Box | Read More »

Town seeks to alter cell tower controls

Town seeks to alter cell tower controls

A change proposed in these Comprehensive Plan amendments is to take the height restrictions of cell towers out of the future land-use element and comprehensive plan altogether.

June 3, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

Colony cleared of ‘nuisance’ status

Colony cleared of ‘nuisance’ status

Katie Moulton, long-time former general manager of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, was true to her word. Moulton told the Longboat Key Town Commission at a May 20 special meeting that the parcels called outparcel B, which the town was in the process of declaring a public nuisance, would soon be brought into compliance. [...]

June 3, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Real Estate, Top Box | Read More »

Errors force Mar Vista do-over

Errors force Mar Vista do-over

Public noticing requirements failed to meet legal muster and due process of affected Village residents has been violated. Staff fixing 30-year old method.

May 27, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

On Monday, May 20, Longboat Key Town Commission agenda

On Monday, May 20, Longboat Key Town Commission agenda

Pension plans on town agenda Town pension plans will be discussed at the Longboat Key Town Commission’s regular workshop on Monday, May 20. Commissioners will review a proposed ordinance that freezes the Firefighters’ Retirement System pension plan. After the discussion, the ordinance will be forwarded to a special workshop meeting later the same day for [...]

May 20, 2013 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »

It’s getting curiouser and curiouser

It’s getting curiouser and curiouser

This Town Commission, recently strengthened in its own opinion of self worth, looks like one which does not care to operate in a City Manager Form of Government.

May 4, 2013 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »