Council revokes Riviera accord
MELANIE MARQUEZ
Herald Staff Writer
BRADENTON - The future of Riviera Southshore, a highly scrutinized and debated development project, is again in doubt.
The City Council voted Wednesday evening - without assurance of the action’s legality - to rescind an already-approved settlement agreement that established height and density limits for the developer. The agreement left Frank Maggio with 90 days to return to the city with revised plans for his project. The council in September 2006 denied the project for what some council members called “incompatibility with the surrounding neighborhood.”
The motion to rescind, made by Ward 4 Councilman Bemis Smith, was born from new information he says he gathered since the previous council meeting - that public land and streets were used in the calculation of the project’s increased density allowance.
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