After the latest round of public meetings regarding a potential replacement of the Longboat Pass drawbridge, talk about — and pushback against — the Florida Department of Transportation’s proposed fixed-span bridge have once again bubbled up on the north end of the Key.
Longboat Key North, a group of condominium association representatives and homeowners on the north end, have been vocally opposed to FDOT’s preferred 78-foot-clearance fixed-span bridge.
Hearing from its constituents, the Longboat Key Town Commission is repeating history, sending a letter to FDOT voicing its preference for the aging Longboat Pass bridge to be replaced with a drawbridge. Former Mayor Ken Schneier wrote in a 2024 letter that a fixed-span bridge “would be inconsistent with the character of Longboat Key.”…