Developers to submit new cell tower documents

Jim Eatrides, owner of Alpha-Omega Communications Inc. and Kevin Barile, president of the Tampa-based Ridan Industries II agreed at Thursday’s Longboat Key Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) meeting to submit additional documents about their plans to bring a 150-foot stealth cellular tower to the Longboat Island Chapel property at 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

The additional documents will include construction plans and engineering analyses for the tower.

Grand Mariner on Dream Island LLC, along with residents Accursio Sclafani and Doreen Erickson had filed an appeal of town staff’s decision that the outline development plan (ODP), special exception and site plan amendments were complete. The application was determined to be complete Sept. 20, but last week, town staff reversed that decision.

The Planning & Zoning Board recommended the ODP on Oct. 18. At the board’s Dec. 13 meeting, it will again review the ODP along with special exception and site plan applications.

Eatrides and Barile agreed that a “shot clock,” in which, according to state statutes, local governments have 90 business days from the time a cellular tower application is deemed complete to approve or deny it, would be reset.

For more information, pick up a Nov. 17 copy of the Longboat Observer.

Contact Robin Hartill at [email protected].