The restaurant sits at the former site of Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant.
A private contractor ruptured a pipe on Longboat Key under Bayou Sound at the intersection of Harbourside Drive.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has granted a permit to dredge Big Pass as part of a Lido Key shoreline renourishment project.
The citizen activist group alleges the city is not properly alerting residents about plans for certain downtown projects.
Police have not yet identified the man who died.
