5 hours ago Share The appeal for incorporating Siesta Key is its residents controlling the island’s land-use destiny. A vote inevitably will come down to cost. Is the benefit worth the cost? On Longboat, it is.
We all know that saying: Third time is a charm.
Perhaps that will be the case for John Davidson, arguably deserving of the title of Mr. Siesta Key.
Davidson the founder of Davidson Drugs and the Pelican Press (now Siesta Key Observer) and a longtime commercial property owner in the Village is trying for the third time to persuade his fellow Siesta Key residents to incorporate the barrier island. As Observer staff writer Brynn Mechem reported last week, Davidson and seven other Save Siesta Key board members are leading the efforts.