The Longboat Key Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance for the town’s south fire station. The decision to allow a variance to Town Code Section 158.118 allows for the construction of a perimeter wall and an earthen side slope with a greater than 4:1 angle at Fire Station 92 at 2162 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The town is in the process of building a new south fire station, which fronts the Longboat Key Club Harborside Golf Course. South-side firefighters are operating out of a temporary trailer until about April 2021, when the new station is scheduled to open. The new fire station will have a driveway that wraps around the south end of the building for the department’s fire trucks and ambulances to come and go. Taylor said the driveway will gradually incline as vehicles will park at an 11-foot elevation at the back of the building.