The Key Club project is most likely capsized and perhaps even sinking. Perhaps Mr. Lesser finally tired of protracted legal costs and delays with no positive results. Perhaps a New York lawyer looked at what the town was attempting, by changing the town's Comprehensive Plan and land use ordinances to effectively spot-zone Mr. Welly's grand design, and advised Lesser that the Longboat Key Club was losing value with every passing year that the town commission tried to fit a square peg into a round hole.
This week Longboat Key residents learned that not only is the KC being sold, we also found out that the club manager is leaving. We may never know if he was let go because his grand design, for the KC expansion, became mired down in litigation for the past three years. I feel much of the blame belongs to the current commission, and their willingness to bend the rules for the KC proposal.
I hope the new owners of the Key Club work with local property owners at Islandside to create a renovation of the Key Club that also preserves the investments of hundreds of property owners within the planned unit development. If done quickly enough perhaps the IPOC people can withdraw their latest suit and save the town commission possible further embarrassment.
At this point only the new KC owners have any sense of what is to follow at the Key Club. Perhaps they will enlist a golf course management firm, such as Troon from Arizona, to revitalize the golf course. Someone needs to come up with a way to increase memberships and course play.
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