Longboat Key voters will get the chance to vote on two residential density issues in November.
On Tuesday, the Town Commission unanimously decided to move forward with referendum requests for:
The conversion of 597 Buttonwood Drive from an office-institutional property to a residential use for two homes that would face Buttonwood Drive.
Redeveloping the vacant bank building at 6960 Gulf of Mexico Drive to a two-story building with four residential condominium units. The vacant building is zoned as office institutional.
Town Attorney Maggie Mooney explained what the commissioners’ decisions meant.
“You are not authorizing any sort of entitled development,” Mooney said. “You are not approving a particular project. You are not even weighing in your personal opinion about the values and benefits of a particular project.