Infrastructure, Beaches, and Stressed Funds Take Center Stage at Budget Workshop
Longboat's workshop will set the tone for how the island balances its ambitious resiliency goals with fiscal responsibility.
—On Monday, May 18, the Longboat Key...
Holding Back the Gulf: Longboat Key to Debate Regulations on ‘Aqua Dams’ as Threats Mount
Two years after Hurricanes Helene and Milton ravaged the island, Longboat Key officials are preparing to tackle a growing trend: homeowners deploying massive freestanding...
Arch-enemies head to court as St. Regis and Longboat reach impasse over beachside structure
Friday at 5:00 PM was supposed to be the deadline. Instead, it became a phone call. Chuck Whittall picked up the phone and told...
Longboat Key Gave Up Its Insularity for Beach Money; The Parking Lot Is the Receipt
For most of its history, Longboat Key paid its own way to the water. Residents taxed themselves to truck in sand, groomed their own...
Beauty, Neglect, and a Battle for the Soul of St. Armands Circle
—While Developers Circle and the City Dithers, Merchants Association President Rachel Burns Walks Every Cracked Inch — and Has a Plan. Does Anyone...
A Draped Sign, a Litigation Threat, a Divided Town, and a Monday Vote That Could Change Longboat Key
This is not a routine zoning dispute. This is a confrontation between two legitimate and powerful claims on the same small barrier island —...
Mira Mar’s Revival Anchors Sarasota’s Downtown Renaissance
There are buildings, and then there are landmarks. Sarasota’s Mira Mar has long been the latter — a structure so woven into the city’s...
Gulfside Road Under Siege: Longboat Key and a pair of storm victims
Drive down Gulfside Road today and you will see a barrier island that, for the most part, has clawed its way back from the...
‘Sunny Day’ Flooding Swamps Longboat — and Its Budget
—The sky can be cloudless, the Gulf of Mexico calm, and still the water comes. It pools in the streets of the Village, backs...
Sarasota’s Bay Park is Getting Its First Waterfront Restaurant
For years, visitors strolling through The Bay — downtown Sarasota’s sweeping 53-acre waterfront park along Sarasota Bay — have had no shortage of breathtaking...