Key Club mediation unsuccessful

Mediation involving the Longboat Key Club and Resort, Islandside Property Owners Coalition (IPOC) and town was unsuccessful, according to an email sent yesterday by Town Attorney David Persson to commissioners.

“Since the rules of mediation require confidentiality, I am unable to discuss with you what occurred during the mediation,” Persson wrote.

The parties met in an attempt to reach a settlement in disputes surrounding the Key Club’s $400 million Islandside redevelopment-and-expansion project, which the commission approved in June 2010.

The mediation took place yesterday before retired Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer.

Twelfth Judicial Circuit Judge Charles Roberts quashed the ordinance by which the commission approved the project at the end of December, granting IPOC and the L’Ambiance and Sanctuary condominium associations a writ of certiorari in their challenge.

The town and Key Club then challenged that ruling. Their challenge is pending in the Second District Court of Appeals.

A declaratory challenge, in which IPOC is the plaintiff and the town is the defendant, remains pending in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court.

Contact Robin Hartill at [email protected].