Buttonwood Harbour community meeting scheduled

By S.T. Cardinal
| 5:00 a.m. January 21, 2026

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The town of Longboat Key will host a public meeting Feb. 5 to discuss potential improvements to the Buttonwood Harbour neighborhood.

The town hired planning and designing consultants Kimley-Horn to assess stormwater drainage for the neighborhood. That consulting firm along with town staff will be on hand at the meeting, which begins at 5 p.m. at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center.

Buttonwood Harbour, a neighborhood developed in the '60s, is prone to flooding. Kimley-Horn was tasked with reviewing stormwater infrastructure, elevation and surveying data and designing potential infrastructure improvements for the neighborhood, which may include road reconstructions.

The public meeting will include a presentation beginning at 5:10 p.m. and a question and answer segment following.

Buttonwood Harbour has defined boundaries, which include land on Buttonwood Drive, Winslow Place, Triton Bend, Neptune Avenue and a sliver of land bordering the Town Green.

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S.T. Cardinal

S.T. "Tommy" Cardinal is the Longboat Key news reporter. The Sarasota native earned a degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando with a minor in environmental studies. In Central Florida, Cardinal worked for a monthly newspaper covering downtown Orlando and College Park. He then worked for a weekly newspaper in coastal South Carolina where he earned South Carolina Press Association awards for his local government news coverage and photography.