Who benefits from the development plan?
Dear Editor: In your “Negotiate What?” June 25 editorial regarding the expansion of the Longboat Key Club, you opine that the disagreements between the residents of the Islandside community and the club are “short-term narrow interests versus a greater, long-term gain for all.” The interests of the Islandside community, as we have stated clearly, are to preserve the quiet enjoyment of our residences as we have for the past 25 or more years. The interests of the Loeb Group and Key Club are to earn as much profit as they can. The interests of The Longboat Observer, a free, weekly newspaper whose sole source of income is advertisements placed by the business community, is to increase the number of business enterprises and to profit from their advertising. Rudy Meiselman Longboat Key Editor’s note: You are accurate on all three counts, in a simplistic on-the-surface sense. As we all know, however, there are other “interests” beyond the three you articulated. To profit, every business enter
