GENE JALESKI
Guest Columnist
opinion@lbknews.com
Contrary to the constant incantations coming from the Town Commission and the LLSA Chamber of Commerce, the residents residing in the northern reaches of our community really would rather not rely on commercial developers or academics to tell us what we will or will not do with our real estate. When I read that the town does not have the money to include the residents in any north end development study, I think of the half million the town just spent for a lot adjacent to Bayfront Park. The current commissioners seldom use the word resident, preferring instead to dwell on commercial interests. Who pays the taxes?
In 1998 or 1999, the then-commission commissioned a community overlay project at the north end of Longboat Key. The express purpose of the project was to have the residents in
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