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Ray Stevens, In Critical Condition, Resigns His Palm Coast City Council Seat Two Months After Sweari

Published Feb 28, 2025 08:48PM

Ray Stevens, In Critical Condition, Resigns His Palm Coast City Council Seat Two Months After Swearing-In

Elected to the Palm Coast City Council last November after surviving a historically close primary race, Ray Stevens tendered his resignation today, citing ill health. He had missed three successive meetings and attended last Tuesday's meeting remotely, saying he'd be back in person next week, only to have a grave relapse.
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Palm Coast’s Waterfront Park Wins State Planning Associati

The American Planning Association’s Florida Chapter named Waterfront Park the winner of the Great Places in Florida People’s Choice Award for 2024, taking 60 percent of the vote in a statewide competition driven by community boosting. Waterfront ... Read more

At Tiger Bay, a Smart-Urbanism Expert Gives a Nice Slide Sho

Addressing Flagler Tiger Bay Club today, Sandra Baer, founder and CEO of Personal Cities, spoke a lot of buzzy concepts about "smart cities" no one would dispute and illustrated her talk with slides of some of the world's greatest cities, but the tal ... Read more

On Second Thought, Palm Coast Council Expands City Manager S

After getting a small and unimpressive batch of candidates from a four-week job posting in December, the Palm Coast City Council's head-hunter for a new city manager did a desperate thing, marking the want ad as "open until filled." That drew nine mo ... Read more

New Big-Box Store and Shops Slated Near BJ’s Wholesale, But Palm Coast Is ‘Leery’ of 255-Apart

Published Feb 18, 2025 08:54PM

The Palm Coast City Council approved on first reading the annexation from the county of a 39-acre parcel on State Road 100, adjacent to the BJ's Wholesale Club property just east of Bulldog Drive. The property is slated for a development similar to the BJ's shopping center. But the council did so with an informal condition: that a portion of the land zoned for apartments, entitling a developer to build 255 units there, be converted exclusively to commercial zoning. No apartments.
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Flagler County’s $114 Million Beach Management Plan Depend

Flagler County government's proposed $114 million plan to rebuild, maintain and protect 18 miles of shoreline over the next six years depends on raising the local sales tax by half a penny, imposing a $160-a-year tax on each barrier island property, ... Read more

With Little Controversy, Flagler Beach Approves Water, Sewer

After months of delay, the Flagler Beach City Commission last week approved a series of rate increases for water, sewer, garbage and stormwater. Water, sewer and garbage-collection rates will increase 3.5 percent. The monthly stormwater fee will incr ... Read more

Flagler Humane Society Takes a Lashing from Palm Coast Counc

Palm Coast City Hall's maintenance crews might still this morning have been cleaning up the bloodbath Amy Carotenuto and the Flagler Humane Society she leads endured Tuesday at the hands of City Council members and numerous residents who spoke, some ... Read more