The sphere has grown to 5 for the 2025 Marathon Metropolis Council race, as present Mayor Lynn Landry filed for re-election.
Landry will launch his second marketing campaign after ending with the best vote whole (1,671) within the nine-candidate 2022 election, earlier than which he served because the chair of the town’s planning fee.
“There are plenty of long-term capital initiatives that we’ve began to maneuver on, and I’d prefer to see them completed,” he informed the Weekly, referencing updates to Marathon Neighborhood Park’s skate park and splash pad in addition to a two-boat-ramp redesign for the Quay park.
He mentioned he took delight in new income streams created by way of boat ramp and seashore parking charges for guests, serving to Marathon to maintain its taxes on the rollback fee the final two years.
“I’ve discovered a lot on metropolis council,” he mentioned. “I sat on planning for 9 years and thought I had a very good grasp, however you be taught a lot whenever you’re really serving. … I simply need to hold shifting ahead.”
A nine-year veteran of the town’s planning fee, Landry additionally mentioned he’s keen to handle upcoming challenges to improvement all through the town, introduced by way of brand-new laws limiting new constructing rights to at least one per vacant lot and mounting resident scrutiny over new developments.
“Once you sit on planning, you’re in a field, and each time you attempt to enterprise out of the field, council normally says, ‘hey, you keep in (there),’” he mentioned. “Once you’re on council, you must suppose exterior the field to situation issues so it’s higher for the neighborhood.
“We’re going to have to take a look at land improvement laws within the complete plan, particularly with the brand new BPAS (models) coming,” he added. “We have to give attention to inexpensive housing – if we will make it work to do duplexes, triplexes, issues like that, however we now have to have the models to do it. You’re not going to construct a one-off inexpensive (housing unit), and we have to attempt to work on our laws to make somebody who desires to owner-occupy their dwelling a precedence on our record.”
There are three open seats on the council within the 2025 race, as positions held by Landry, Vice Mayor Jeff Smith and councilwoman Robyn Nonetheless are all up for re-election. All three incumbents have filed to run this fall, together with newcomers Debbie Struyf and Gerrit Hale. For options on the opposite 4 candidates, see keysweekly.com.