The town of Longboat Key is hoping to host a meeting with Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport leaders to discuss potential flight path impacts to the barrier island.
Longboat Key is across from Sarasota Bay from the airport, and a recently altered flight path has led to concerns from those under the new path about air quality and particulates. In response, the town has contracted with a company called Vertex to perform sampling in the area. The air quality results are back.
“They ran their screens for a full day and there was zero from the clean jet engines that fly over us in this pattern,” Public Works Director Charlie Mopps said. “But to back that up, we’re doing a particulate sampling over at the Vice Mayor (Debra Williams’) condo complex and then another resident just about a couple thousand feet in another complex that were talking about the same thing.”…