Key West city commissioners cautiously began to discuss options to potentially control the number of cruise ships visiting the local port at their meeting on Tuesday night. City Attorney Shawn Smith told commissioners there are options if DeSantis signs the bill, but the commission on Tuesday was unwilling to take any formal steps on the cruise ship issue until Gov. Ron DeSantis decides whether to sign a transportation bill that would overturn last Novemberâs city of Key West successful referendum capping both ship size and passenger/crew daily disembarkations. âIf, in fact, we are preempted from acting, that would certainly preclude us from moving forward at Pier B,â he said, referring to the privately-owned Pier B, one of three cruise docking piers in Key West. âHowever, Mallory [Square] and the Outer Mole are city-controlled assets.