Commission considers Colony request tonight

The Longboat Key Town Commission will decidewhether to grant a continuance of the town’s tourism abandonment requirement for The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort at its regular meeting tonight.

Currently, if the resort is abandoned past Aug. 15 (the day the resort shut down), the town can strip the resort of 129 of the resort’s 237 units because they were built on the property before town code required only six tourism units be built per acre.

The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association is requesting the commission consider extending the continuance deadline until Dec. 31, 2012.

Also at its 7 p.m. regular meeting tonight at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, the commission will consider:

Forwarding to its June 6 regular meeting for second reading and public hearing:
• An ordinance that revises the town’s beaches, parks and public places regulations.
• An ordinance that amends the town’s mortality rates for its three pension plans.
• An ordinance that eliminates a firefighter pension board member’s right to vote in pension board member elections if they are enrolled in the Deferred Retirement Option Program.
• An ordinance that incorporates amendments to a three-year, ratified contract between the town and the Longboat Key Police Officers’ Union.
• An ordinance that makes amendments to town requirements for walls, fences, hedges and berms.

Adopting:
• An ordinance allows for the town’s Firefighters’ Pension Board to be in compliance with an Internal Revenue Service requirement.
• A revised parking ordinance that prohibits parking in the state right-of-way along Gulf of Mexico Drive, with a few exceptions.

Appointments:
• To several of the town’s boards and committees, including open seas on the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board.

Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].