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SPORTS PAGE 12A THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021

Health Matters: Skin Edition Skin science and skin care tips, plus an interview with a lifeguard. SECTION B

One step closer to 100 beds AdventHealth’s facility advances PAGE 3A

BRIEFS Masks optional at city facilities

The city of Palm Coast has rescinded the requirement for masks to be worn at all city facilities. The city has placed its July 9, 2020, mask resolution on the May 4, 2021, agenda for consideration of immediate revocation citywide.

Mayor Milissa Holland said the city has consulted with emergency and health officials and concluded: “It is time to continue the long planned return to normalcy, to support vaccine efforts in Flagler County, and to recognize the hard work our community did in caring enough to mask up. The mask resolution has fulfilled its intended purpose and now our energy should now be shifted toward encouraging vaccine efforts.”

J.R. Ward’s original songs can be found at www.jrwardmusic.com. He also filmed a music video at The Porch.

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The city of songs Palm Coast’s J.R. Ward to perform at Songwriters Festival PAGE 10A

DAV reopens The Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 86, located at 27 Florida Park Drive, is open once again. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday through Thursday.

To schedule transportation to your VA appointment, call 386-439-2122 weekdays five days in advance. Service officers re available on Tuesday and Wednesday to assist with VA benefits and claims processing. Call first to schedule an appointment.

All DAV members and veterans are encouraged to attend our general membership meeting to be held at 10:30 a.m. May 11, at the VFW. Volunteers are needed to help with driving, answering the telephone, scheduling appointments, and assisting veterans with VA benefits and claims processing.

Sixth grade on the move Flagler Schools will shift sixth grade from elementary to middle school and will also rezone schools — all starting in the 2022-2023 school year. No change this fall.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Flagler Schools will rearrange its school grade-level configuration, shifting the sixth grade from elementary school to middle school starting in the 2022-2023 school year to relieve overcrowding in the district’s elementary schools.

School Board members approved the proposal unanimously at an April 20 board meeting.

The current grade-level arrangement is kindergartenthrough-sixth-grade elementary schools, seventh- and eighth-grade middle schools,

and ninth-through-12th-grade high schools. The change will leave high schools unaffected, while making elementary schools kindergarten-through-fifthgrade and middle schools sixththrough-eighth-grade.

The change will also necessitate a rezoning, with details yet to be determined; a district staff presentation suggests the possibility of planning an addition to Matanzas High School and one of the district’s two middle schools, but the board will not make a final decision on those steps until later in the process.

The district will seek to balance schools’ enrollments while

accounting for special programs, neighborhood boundaries, school choice and transportation.

The timeline for the rezoning process will be as follows, according to a district staff document: Late April to June 2021: District staff will work on proposed rezoning configurations July and August: The district will hold community meetings Sept. 21: The district will present the initial proposal to the School Board Oct. 19: The district will hold any additional necessary community meetings, public hearings and School Board meeting presentations of rezoning options Nov. 16: The district will present finalized rezoning maps to the School Board for final approval.

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FOREWORD

A late night text

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

I was up late one night when I received a text message from a friend on the other side of the country: “I’m tired of my life.”

I asked if he was having thoughts about harming himself.

No; he was tired of his lifestyle, not life itself.

Feeling somewhat reassured that he was safe, and knowing he has struggled with drug use in the past, I searched for the right words. I didn’t want to say something that might make things worse. After all, I’m not an expert in addiction recovery.

Then I thought about my recent interview with Greg Peters, the pastor of Parkview Church. He also said it’s important to recognize that you may not be able to solve someone’s problem. “I try to have resources available that are better than what I could provide,” he said.

And so, rather than advise him on how to overcome his addictions, I found a recovery hotline that could connect him to experts in his city. I am still worried, but I felt some peace thanks to Peters’ advice. I think it gave me — and my friend — some clarity.

COPS CORNER APRIL 13

DOIN’ DOUGHNUTS 8:27 p.m. First block of Bay Drive Reckless driving. Several witnesses called the Sheriff’s Office and said cars were zooming around recklessly in a park parking lot. Deputies arrived and found three teens standing outside of three cars.

They said they were there to take photographs. The tire tracks indicated otherwise, and one later admitted that they’d been doing doughnuts. All three were trespassed from the park.

APRIL 19

LOCK(S) DOWN 9:13 a.m. First block of Wayward Place Residential burglary. A contractor arrived at a home under construction and found that someone had tossed bricks through the walls, overturned cans of paint on the floor, ripped a thermostat off the wall, stolen four deadbolts and 16 door handles and strewn other locks around the interior of the home. Deputies are investigating.

APRIL 21

‘OWN’ GOALS 9 p.m. 1800 block of Guava Lane Loitering and prowling. A resident saw an unfamiliar man walking on his property. The resident asked the man what he was doing there and what his name was. The man gave his name and said he was lost. He then walked

across the street and onto a neighbor’s property.

The resident contacted the Sheriff’s Office, and a deputy went to the neighbor’s house and knocked at the locked gate. The man came out, and the deputy asked him why he’d been on the resident’s property.

The man said he’d been lost and thought it was his, and that the land he was on when the deputy found him actually was his own because the owner had “gifted” it to him. A deputy contacted the actual owner, who had no idea who the trespasser was.

The deputy arrested him.

Flagler nears herd immunity; Freedom Fest to proceed With vaccines likely to be available to anyone who wants them by the end of May, it’s just about time to start opening things up, Bickel says.

JONATHAN SIMMONS

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BAD TRIP 9:19 p.m. U.S. 1, Bunnell Narcotics. A woman called 911 and said she was on U.S. 1 in a car with her boyfriend and that someone was following and trying to shoot them, and that the couple was running red lights to flee.

A deputy found the car traveling at a “high rate of speed” with its flashers on, and stopped it.

No other vehicles were following.

When a deputy approached the window, the woman said she had marijuana in her bag. The boyfriend, who was driving, said his license was suspended and that the marijuana in the car was his.

A deputy noticed that the boyfriend was wearing a bullet-resistant vest and that there were other drugs and drug paraphernalia in the car, including MDMA. The deputy arrested the boyfriend.

With an ever-increasing share of Flagler County’s population vaccinated, it’s just about time to start opening up society — especially for outdoor events where social distancing is possible, according to Florida Department of Health-Flagler Medical Director Dr. Stephen Bickel.

“Outdoor events — way safer,” Bickel said. on Flagler Broadcasting’s “Free For All Friday” April 23. “If you can add social distancing to the outdoor event, then it almost makes masks superfluous.”

Freedom Fest, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on July 3 at the Flagler Executive Airport, can proceed as usual without restrictions, he said, given the size of the location and the number of people expected to attend, based on previous years’ events.

Flagler County is “in the realm of herd immunity, even maybe approaching the threshold,” Bickel said.

With vaccines likely to be widely available by the end of May, he

said, responsibility for preventing infection will increasingly fall to individuals, who can decide to get vaccinated or not.

“We need to get back to our lives. We’ve all taken quite a hit this year,” Bickel said. “If there was no downside to the institutional protection of people, that would be one thing. But it’s restricting commerce, restricting social activity, so that’s the tradeoff.”

Bickel added that he expects case rates to stay where they are for a while, because there are still a number of unvaccinated people — many of whom don’t want to be vaccinated.

“But we’re going to find the death rates continuing to go down, hospitalization rates continuing to go down, the most vulnerable section of our society protected,” he said. “So at that point it becomes more like the flu.”

Over the previous week, said Florida Department of HealthFlagler Communications Manager Gretchen Smith, the county has been averaging 17 cases a day, down from about 30 cases a day a few weeks prior.

The positivity rate has been about 5%, and there have been fewer ER visits for COVID-like symptoms, she said.

About 50% of the county’s population of people over 16 — approximately 50,000 people — has been vaccinated, and 79% of those over 65 have been vaccinated.

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Planning board votes 7-0 against duplexes The Palm Coast City Council will hear the proposal next.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

“It will provide emergency medical services substantially closer to central and north Palm Coast residents and be a major generator of well-paying jobs.”

BILL HOOVER, Palm Coast senior planner

The north side of the proposed hospital building.

Images courtesy of the city of Palm Coast

Picture of health

New 100-bed AdventHealth hospital on Palm Coast Parkway earns planning board’s support

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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alm Coast’s new hospital will have 100 beds spread over a 155,000, four-story building between eastand westbound Palm Coast Parkway and between Pine Lakes Parkway and Belle Terre Parkway, and will start with about 400 new jobs and ultimately generate about 700, AdventHealth Palm Coast Chief Operating Officer Wally De Aquino told the Palm Coast planning board April 21.

The proposed master planned development rezoning and master site plan for the new hospital received a 7-0 vote of support from the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board, which will recommend that the City Council approve it.

An adjacent medical office building to be built in a second construction phase of construction would be two stories and 30,000 square feet.

Construction on the new hospital is expected to begin in September and cost $100 million, according to an AdventHealh news release.

The new hospital,called AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, is AdventHealth’s second in Palm Coast, and is one of two potential major medical facilities in the Palm Coast Parkway area: Another hospital by an undisclosed company has been proposed for the west side of U.S. 1 at its intersection with Palm Coast Parkway.

The 69.5-foot-tall new AdventHealth hospital would sit on an 11-acre site, with patient parking in the northeast and employee parking behind the O’Reilly Auto Parts property in the northwest.

At 11 acres, the new hospital site will be much more compact than the approximately 95-acre existing AdventHealth site on State Road 100, but will have about the

same number of beds.

A heliport would be constructed on the hospital’s east side to airlift patients from the hospital to a trauma center, if needed, because the proposed hospital will not have one.

Aside from its emergency room, the new hospital will offer cardiology, surgery, orthopedic services and inpatient rehab, while the medical office building will offer outpatient rehab.

The emergency room will have 20 ICU rooms, plus another 20 that could be converted into ICU rooms if there’s another pandemic, De Aquino told planning board members.

“Thankfully, we have done that already in this [State Road 100] facility, so the other facility will be able to provide an additional 40 turnkey ICU rooms if there’s a need in the future,” he said.

Planning board member Sandra Shank asked if the new hospital will offer pediatrics and obstetrics, which aren’t offered at the current hospital on S.R. 100.

De Aquino said it will not.

In 2020, he said, there were 825 births attributed to Flagler County. New mothers can go to Daytona and St. Augustine for delivery, and if AdventHealth offered a local obstetrics center, it would capture maybe 50% or 60% of the market.

“So, we estimate that if we were to open a birth center today, we would have less than two births per day coming to our facility,” he said. “... It would be impossible to recruit skilled physicians that would be willing to come to a facility where they can only deliver one or two babies a day, if that. And then nurses also require training, and for that they need to acquire ‘X’ amount of deliveries so they can continue to keep their proficiencies in gear.”

In terms of pediatric care, he

The proposed location of the new hospital.

said, there’s not enough demand.

The vast majority of pediatric care is outpatient, De Aquino said, and over the last 12 months, the AdventHealth Palm Coast location on S.R. 100 had 2,500 pediatric visits. Only 85 required transfer to another facility, and not all of those were for inpatient care.

Hospital leadership often also fields questions about a trauma center, De Aquino said, but that designation is conferred by the state after a hospital meets a number of conditions. AdventHealth contracted with a consulting company in 2018 to see if it was getting close, but it’s not. The only trauma center in the region for now is Halifax Hospital, he said.

City planning staff found the proposed facility’s master site plan in compliance with city requirements.

The hospital will be located abut 300 feet from the nearest duplex home to the north and about 500 feet from the nearest single-family home to the south, with Palm Coast Parkway and a wooded canal providing a buffer, said Palm Coast Senior Planner Bill Hoover.

“By developing an infill property with a common architectural theme, it will provide emergency medical services substantially closer to central and north Palm Coast residents and be a major generator of well-paying jobs,” Hoover said. “... When you locate on an infill parcel that’s been passed over a lot, that’s a major plus as far as land-planning.”

The Palm Coast City Council will hear the proposal next.

The new hospital is one of two potential new major medical facilities in the Palm Coast Parkway area: Another has been proposed for the west side of U.S. 1 at its intersection with Palm Coast Parkway.

Contravening the recommendation of the city’s planning staff, the city of Palm Coast’s planning board voted unanimously April 21 against a rezoning that would have allowed for the construction of a duplex community on Old Kings Road.

The board’s decision followed public comment by more than a dozen residents of the neighboring Toscana and Hidden Lakes communities to the east.

Residents said they worried that the proposed development — 42.8 acres on the west side of Old Kings Road just north of Town Center Boulevard — would bring traffic and lower their home values.

Representatives for the developer said rezoning to the city’s “duplex” designation from the current office and commercial zoning wouldn’t increase the number of daily trips, and that the homes would be offered at market rate, not subsidized as affordable housing.

“Our goal is to provide 196 single-family-attached residences in a gated community with a common architectural theme,” Roy Hubbard, representing owner OKR Investors LLC, told the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board. He displayed an image of the proposed duplexes. “This is the style we’d be going for, modern transitional architecture. We just want to provide a high quality residence at market rate.”

Attorney Jay Livingston, representing OKR Investors, said the proposed development fills a gap in the housing market, while the market for commercial and office development has declined.

“There is no demand right now for that kind of use,” he said, “and in commercial development, it’s not like the ‘Field of Dreams.’ It’s not, ‘If you build it, they will come.’ It is driven by the demand, and that demand doesn’t exist.”

Livingston added that the proposed duplexes would be useful for people who don’t want a single family home, but don’t want an apartment, either.

“This is not ‘affordable housing,’ but it will hopefully serve as workforce housing, so teachers and policemen and firemen who otherwise might not be able to afford some of the single-family houses will have a place to live,” he said.

Board member Sandra Shank asked if there would be any restrictions on someone using a housing voucher to rent one of the duplexes. Livingston said there would not, but noted that Section 8 vouchers can be used in most of the residential areas of the city.

Speaking during the meeting’s public comment period, Tom SEE DUPLEX PAGE 13A

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Former elections supervisor ordered to pay $129,600 for false complaints The county government pursued Kimberle Weeks, Dennis McDonald and Mark Richter Jr. for attorneys’ fees after judges found their complaints frivolous or maliciously false.

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Kimberle Weeks

maliciously false.

The other two complainants were former County Commission candidate Dennis McDonald and Mark Richter Jr., the son of former Flagler County Commission candidate Mark Richter. Judgements had already been entered against both by the time Weeks’ judgment was entered at an April 8 court hearing.

Weeks, on April 5 — three days before the hearing — offered the county a $20,000 settlement, but the County Commission rejected that offer while leaving open the possibility of negotiating a settlement with all three of the former complainants once Weeks’ final judgment was entered.

Voters to decide fate of Florida’s constitution panel Florida voters next year will decide whether to abolish the 37-member state Constitution Revision Commission, which drew criticism as it placed seven constitutional amendments on the 2018 ballot and bundled into single ballot proposals unrelated issues like workplace vaping and offshore oil drilling.

The proposal was sponsored

by Mike Beltran, R-Lithia. It is now headed to the 2022 ballot.

The commission meets every 20 years.

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Monoclonal antibody treatment available at AdventHealth Monoclonal antibodies treatment is available at AdventHealth outpatient clinics across Central Florida, according to an AdventHealth news release.

The treatment helps prevent high-risk patients with COVID-19 from developing severe disease that requires hospitalization, and AdventHealth has seen a 50% drop in admissions among people who’ve received the infusions, AdventHealth Medical Group Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Cacciatore said, according to the news release.

Unvaccinated patients as young as 23 are continuing to be hospitalized for COVID-19, said Dr. Eduardo Oliveira, medical director of critical care services at AdventHealth Medical Group.

Community members with questions about monoclonal antibody treatments can call the AdventHealth Coronavirus Information Line at 877-VIRUS-HQ (877-847-8747).

JONATHAN SIMMONS

A Leon County circuit judge has imposed judgments totaling almost $129,600, plus interest, against former Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Kimberle Weeks for filing false complaints against county officials.

Weeks is to pay $60,682.40 plus prejudgement interest of $12,288.15 for false complaints against Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed, plus $68,888.11 and prejudgment interest totaling $13,949.80 for false complaints against former Flagler County Commissioner Charlie Ericksen.

Interest will accumulate at 6.83% until it’s paid.

The county government had pursued Weeks — along with two other individuals who’d made false Ethics Commission and Elections Commission complaints against county officials in 2014 — for attorneys’ fees after administrative law judges found their complaints frivolous or

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BY THE NUMBERS

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Palm Coast’s ranking, as of April 28, in its population category for the Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation. The challenge ends April 30.

See rankings at https:// mywaterpledge.com/citystandings/.

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New residential units planned for the southeast corner of Belle Terre Parkway and Royal Palms Parkway, comprising 64 single-family homes and 96 paired villas. See page 14 for details.

Pointing to market conditions, the owner of a 146-acre parcel on the east side of U.S. 1 south of Belle Terre Boulevard sought the city planning board’s approval April 21 to nix plans for a combined industrial, multifamily and single-family development in favor of an exclusively singlefamily development.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board approved two measures for the parcel — a Future Land Use Map amendment and a zoning designation change — 7-0, with little discussion.

Board member Sandra Shank asked the owner about the reason for the shift.

“It appears to be an impact on the economy, because we’re losing commercial,” Shank said.

“I just did not have a lot of enthusiasm from investors with the conditions the market is in,” said David Blessing, a managing partner of Palm Coast 145 LLC, the firm that owns the land. “As you are all aware, the residential market is extremely hot, so I can not swim upstream any longer. I need to go with the flow.”

The property had initially been designated in 2017 as a master planned development with 52 aces of industrial use

Image courtesy of the city of Palm Coast

The development area, outlined in red.

and 82 acres of residential, with residential development to include multifamily and single-family and capped at 348 units, while nonresidential would be capped at 350,000 square feet. The remainder was to be greenbelt or conservation land.

The FLUM and zoning changes that won the planning board’s approval eliminate the nonresidential and multifamily uses and convert the entire property to singlefamily-residential, but raise the cap on the total number of dwelling units from 348 to 450. The conservation areas will remain.

“What we have here is an applicant wanting to meet the

"The residential market is extremely hot, so I can not swim upstream any longer. I need to go with the flow.”

market demand as he sees fit for the housing market,” Palm Coast Senior Planner Jose Papa said. “... Rezoning the entire property to single family zoning provides a more consistent zoning designation with the adjacent single family neighborhood.”

The proposed changes are expected to decrease the development’s impacts on traffic, water and sewer demand while increasing impacts on schools and solid waste facilities, Papa said, and will require the approval of the Palm Coast City Council as well as review by state agencies such as the Department of Environmental Protection.

Contact News Editor Jonathan Simmons at jonathan@palmcoastobserver. com.

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MEN RESCUED AFTER 7 HOURS ON DISABLED BOAT Two fishermen, 68 and 87 years old, were rescued after spending 7 hours stranded in a disabled jon boat off Palm Coast’s Long Creek Paddling Trail on April 23.

The men called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office at around 4:10 p.m., saying their boat motor had died and that although they weren’t in distress, they didn’t know where they were, except that they could see a white marker sign that said “2” — one of the Palm Coast’s Long Creek Paddling Trail markers.

A deputy had them call 911 to get a “ping” for their location, which showed them in marshland off the Intracoastal.

Dispatch advised the men to call Sea Tow or another boat towing company.

The county’s FireFlight helicopter found their location, and noted that they did not appear to be in distress.

By 9:35p.m., the men called 911 and said that the 87-yearold was weak from trying to paddle and was having a hard time sitting up.

Volusia County launched its emergency helicopter and the FCSO prepared an airboat.

Flagler County Fire Rescue launched a jet ski, found the men and towed them back to Bings Landing at 11:37 p.m.

It was not clear from the FCSO’s report why they were unable to summon a tow.

Fire Rescue checked the men, who declined medical treatment.

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Here are other factors that make it hard to hire in Palm Coast Dear Editor: Your story on businesses’ hiring trouble focused on those who blame the government for competing with the business community for lower paid employees by providing increased unemployment benefits. But the story failed to account for other factors.

Nearly 50 years ago, I managed an office supply store in South Florida. Broward County, much like Flagler County today, was in the midst of a real estate boom. More and more people retired to South Florida, and there were fewer and fewer young people entering the workforce and taking entry-level jobs.

I recall the months and months when I advertised for help wanted for delivery drivers and furniture installers and did not have one person apply. I frequently hired any person who walked in the door and filled out an application.

And we were offering starting pay 25% to 40% higher than the minimum.

The second aspect is the availability of affordable housing. Flagler County is having the same problems as Broward County had in the 1970s. Fifteen years ago, prior to the recession, around 15% of Palm Coast homes were rentals. Speculators took advantage, building homes and renting them out as the property values increased, then selling them off during the recession. Also, many Palm Coast workers who were suddenly out of work due to the recession found themselves unable to pay the mortgage and were forced into foreclosure. Many of the workers who were renting homes, and those foreclosed, left the area in search of jobs.

What we are left with today is a lack of homes or apartments for rent in Palm Coast. A search of the rental market shows few homes available for less than $1,200 per month.

According to BankRate.com, no more than 28% of pre-tax monthly income should go to pay for housing. Using this formula for a rental home, a worker would need a pre-tax income of $4,300 per month, or $1,075 per week. Working a 40-hour week, that comes out to $26.88 per hour. A business that pays less than $15 per hour is going to have a hard time

finding someone to take the job unless the person is willing to work two shifts. There are just not enough young people living at home to take those lowpaying jobs, or young couples with each wanting to work at a low-paying job, and that’s if they could find an affordable place to live.

Another aspect is young people themselves, fresh out of high school. When I graduated from high school, college was not an option, nor was it for a number of my friends. We all entered the workforce, taking any jobs available. We did not have the option of government loans to pay for college as kids have today. A much greater proportion of kids are now going to college and not entering the low-paying workforce.

The last aspect, the proverbial “elephant in the room,” is the Trump administration closing the border to Mexico, reducing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country, and deporting illegal immigrants.

These are hundreds of thousands of people who gladly take low-paying jobs, jobs for the most part not wanted by much of the American labor force. Everything from garbage collectors, poultry plant workers, stoop labor for vegetable and fruit picking, etc.

Interestingly enough, it is not just low paying jobs that are going unfilled. Recently, the city of Palm Coast had 18 job openings listed on their website, paying $13.56/hour to $15/hour as well as jobs starting at $51,000, $67,000, and even $71,000 per year!

RICHARD DECKER Palm Coast

More research needed before spending millions on Tennis Center expansion Dear Editor: Throughout 2021, city residents will continue to hear more about the proposed expansion of the Palm Coast Tennis Center to add new pickleball courts and other facilities – with an up-front budget of a not so inconsequential $5,725,000.

Amid a pandemic, and with plenty of families struggling, this spending would be ludicrous, wasteful and would highlight the city’s political tone deafness.

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the public there is strong support for this expansion, much less the necessary demand to justify such an exorbitant expenditure.

Based on the report authored by the Regional Racquet Center Advisory Council cited in the Palm Coast City Council’s Workshop Agenda from March 9, 2021: The city plans to move forward despite an exploratory process and survey questions heavily biased toward the favorability and inevitability of the facility’s expansion. And, there has been no study into real demand for expansion.

How many new players or tournaments annually is the facility expected to draw?

How much new revenue would be expected for the city?

How many permanent new jobs might be created?

Have residents been consulted about the potential for increased noise and traffic to the directly adjacent neighborhoods?

If the answer to all these questions is a net zero, the city would be subsidizing this expansion for a yet unknown number of residents who would take advantage of use.

In addition, it could quickly become a permanent deficit for the city. Phase 1 has been budgeted at $5.7 million, with unknown maintenance costs to the city beyond then. Phase 2 is more mysterious, with an unknown cost and timeline.

Three sparsely attended public input meetings about the matter were held Jan. 13, 20 and 27, and included a combined total of 82 attendees. Similar low response rates and other scientific flaws have plagued Palm Coast’s online surveys when residents were asked about the issue.

I give credit to the city for seeking citizen input, but this shaky justification is hardly a mandate for such an expenditure in a city with an estimated population of 94,080. What’s more, the report also notes the committee was weighted toward “both city employees, tennis and pickleball ambassadors in the community.” The group considered a wide range of issues but failed to consider the opinions of the majority of Palm Coast residents who will never step inside the facility and are expected to foot the bill for this taxpayer-funded boondoggle.

CASEY C. CHEAP Palm Coast

Didn’t they support the Constitution before now?

Dear Editor: The recent actions by our County Commission remind me of a magician’s deflection trick. They are all American citizens and elected officials; did they not support the Constitution before? Their action was nothing more than pandering to a segment of the population that is easily satisfied with meaningless gestures.

Could it be that Commissioner Joe Mullins is trying to shift the focus from his recent legal troubles and his participation in the recent insurrection in the Capitol?

And ironic how after the insults and infighting the other commissioners went right along with his deflection.

EDITH CAMPINS Palm Coast

Keep commercial vehicles out of driveways Dear Editor: Ed Danko hit the nail on the head in all his wonderful ideas!

I must say the only thing I do not agree with is having commercial vehicles parked in the driveways. I wouldn’t want a plumbing outfit on one side of my house, an air conditioning business on the other side and an electrician’s truck across from me. So, I hope the restrictions stay as they are! Areas are already getting trashy because of all the housing and there is not enough code enforcers to keep up. It’s only going to get worse!

PAT STASIO Palm Coast

Belle Terre Swim Club already disrupts neighborhood Dear Editor: We live right behind the circle of Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club. To say we have had problems already with noise and lights from cars at 6:30 a.m. to close to 11 p.m. would not be an exaggeration.

Now they are considering selling to a place that wants to use the easement that borders ours and our neighbors’ properties, add another pool. Frequent buses and the drop in property values of tax paying citizens is

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not the news I wanted to read in your article.

I never could figure out why this business was located in the middle of a residential area. The thing we loved about Palm Coast is the fact they don’t do this. We now have a buffer of the easement at least.

Do any of the School Board members live next to the club?

Would they want this in their backyard?

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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has demoted one deputy and given another a one-day suspension over unrelated misconduct cases.

Mark Moy, formerly a detective and corporal, has been place on disciplinary probation and stripped of his law enforcement status in connection with a domestic violence charge.

Moy had been with the Sheriff’s Office for 14 years at the time of his misdemeanor domestic battery arrest in February.

He signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the State Attorney’s Office, agreeing to complete an 8-hour anger management class and an evaluation for substance abuse, and the prosecution dropped the charge.

Moy acknowledged to the Sheriff’s Office that he had slapped his daughter while he was drinking and that he’d initially lied about it to deputies, telling internal investigators that he’d panicked when deputies arrived at his home.

“I don’t think words can express how sorry I am that I have bought disgrace to this agency,” Moy said, according to an internal investigation report.

The Sheriff’s Office placed him on a 12-month disciplinary probation, reassigned him to the non-sworn position of digital forensic analyst, suspended

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FCSO disciplines deputies in unrelated misconduct cases him without pay for two months and required him to undergo a substance abuse evaluation and provide evidence of any recommended treatment.

The second case involved Detention Cpl. Peter Descartes, who has been employed by the FCSO for 18 years.

An inmate alleged that Descartes, who is black, had called him the N-word during the detention’s meal service.

The inmate said that he’d asked Descartes for a Styrofoam cup, and Descartes had said no. The inmate then called Descartes “nasty,” and Descartes had replied by calling the inmate a “thirst n-----,” the inmate said in a complaint.

Four other inmates also told investigators said they’d heard Descartes use the slur.

But Descartes said he’d actually said “knucka,” short for “knucklehead,” and not the N-word.

Descartes “was adamant that he did not and would not use that term at any time,” but did take responsibility for engaging in an “unprofessional verbal exchange,” according to an internal investigation report.

An internal investigation did not find that Descartes used the racial slur, but did find that the interaction was “less than professional and should not have occurred,” the report states.

Descartes was suspended for 24 hours without pay, with the time to come out of his annual leave accrual.

Teen hurt in Roxland Man tries to run Lane shooting over hotel guest The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that injured a 17-year-old boy on Roxland Lane at about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 24.

The victim was airlifted to the hospital by Trauma One’s emergency rescue helicopter.

“At this time, we do not believe that this was a random attack,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. “We are actively piecing together the events that led up to this incident and are following all leads that have been uncovered.

We ask the community to send tips if they have any information that may help in this investigation.”

Anyone with information can send it to TIPS@flaglersheriff. com or call the non-emergency line at 386-313-4911 and mention Case Number 2021-37949.

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Parents arrested after children found in filthy conditions Deputies arrested two local parents April 22 after deputies found their three young children living in filthy conditions at a Bunnell home.

“I am so glad that we were able to get these kids out of this house before someone was injured or became seriously ill as a result of the conditions inside the home,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Between the trash, bugs, and the human excrement found inside the home, this situation could have had a tragic ending.

Hopefully, DCF and other agencies will help these parents and children get the help they need.

It is unfortunate these conditions and the parent’s lack of actions deteriorated to a criminal case.”

Deputies responded to the house, in the 1700 block of County Road 75 in Bunnell, at 1 a.m. after neighbors called the Sheriff’s Office saying they heard children screaming inside the home.

Deputies who arrived at the home saw large piles of trash outside the home and found the interior filthy with feces and garbage and crawling with roaches. There were three children inside, ages, 2, 1 and 7 days old.

The parents, 26-year-old Christina Coe and 27-year-old Gilbert Bridewell, were arrested.

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Deputies arrested a 41-year-old Bunnell man April 22 after he stopped his car at an intersection to open another driver’s car door and grab his phone and cigarettes, and threw a garbage can lid at a hotel guest then tried to run him over.

Deputies responded to the Econolodge Motel in Palm Coast after receiving reports of a robbery. Traffic camera footage showed the man stopping in busy intersections, getting out of his car and walking around yelling at passing vehicles.

Deputies made contact with a gentleman who said that a man with “bugged eyes” came up to his car, opened the passenger side door and then took the gentleman’s cell phone and cigarettes.

At the same time, deputies were at the Econolodge investigating an allegation that the man had thrown an industrial sized garbage can lid at a guest’s Chevrolet Avalanche, breaking the side mirror, yelled “I got something for you” and brandished an item wrapped in white cloth, and then tried to drive over the hotel guest with his car. The hotel guest was able to jump out of the way.

Deputies found the vehicle and arrested the driver, 41-year-old Christopher Tehran Holmes, on multiple charges.

KFC evacuated over false bomb threat by ‘giggling’ caller The Kentucky Fried Chicken location on Old Kings Road was evacuated April 26 after a “giggling” caller said they’d blow it up because they were tired of staff getting their order wrong.

A manager was taking orders at the drive-thru when the restaurant’s phone rang at 11:35 a.m., according to an FCSO case report. The manager answered it, and “heard someone giggling on the other end,” according to the report.

She hung up, but the phone rang again from the same number, and a male voice said, “I’m tired of this s----, you keep f---ing up my order. I’m gonna blow that b---- up.”

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YOUR NEIGHBORS LISTEN TO THE MUSIC The Palm Coast Songwriters Festival is back. Listen to 31 of the world’s top country songwriters explain how they wrote their hits for some of the industry’s biggest stars.

For ticket information, visit https:// www.palmcoastsongwritersfestival.com.

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Palm Coast’s J.R. Ward to perform at Songwriters Festival

BRIAN McMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

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t was after a long night of performing cover songs at a Flagler County bar when aspiring songwriter J.R. Ward got a big break. He was scrolling through Twitter, winding down for the night, and he stumbled onto a retweet by Kendell Marvel.

The tweet — an online auction to benefit Ohio Craft Brewers — seemed like an odd thing to promote for Marvel, who has written songs for Chris Stapleton, George Strait and Brothers Osborne. Ward was intrigued, and as he clicked through, he discovered that Marvel had donated a one-hour co-writing session to the online auction.

Ward dreamed big: Imagine cowriting a song with someone like that — someone who had already “made it.” He bid $100, which was the amount of money he had made performing at the bar that night, and he went to bed.

His bid won.

The co-write went better than he could have expected. Marvel suggested during their Zoom session that they brainstorm a song from scratch. Ward, who grew up in Tennessee but moved to Palm Coast about 11 years ago, recalled reading in Billboard magazine a list of all the music venues that had closed for good because of the pandemic, and he thought it would be a good subject for a song.

Marvel immediately began working on a melody, and three hours later, they had the song, called “If This Place Shuts Down.”

Ward later had a music video made at The Porch, on Moody Boulevard in Bunnell. Check it out at jrwardmusic.com, or listen to him perform it at 5 p.m. April 29, in European Village, at the free kickoff show to the four-day Palm Coast Songwriters Festival.

With help from another connection in the music business (David Elliott Johnson, who cowrote the Blake Shelton song “Over”), Ward has recorded several original songs with independent label Organic Vinyl, available also on Spotify.

THE FIRST SONG

Ward will always remember his first song. He got the idea one night in 2017 after performing some country tunes for residents at a memory care facility, he said.

One man with Alzheimer’s got up in a cowboy hat and started singing and dancing.

Ward didn’t find out until a year later who the man was: James Gardner, former president of ITT, the development company that created what became the city of Palm Coast. Gardner’s son, Jay Gardner, Flagler County property appraiser, watched his father dance to Ward’s music that night.

“It was a great time — one of the happier moments,” Jay Gardner recalled.

The experience inspired Ward to write “Ready to Go,” about caregivers. Ward’s own family members have lived with Alzheimer’s, and the song remains one of his most personal. He later saw Jay Gardner at another event and

handed him a CD of the song he had written.

“We listened to it in the car and cried all the way home,” Jay Gardner recalled. “It was very touching.”

The health care company Ward was working for at the time turned it into a feel-good campaign video. Ward was encouraged by feeling like he had made in impact.

And he determined that he would keep writing songs that meant something to him.

‘A VALIDATION FEELING’

Ward recently sent his new song, “If This Place Shuts Down,” to Kevin Kane, a local disc jockey at Kix Country. Kane encouraged him and plays the song on the radio.

“It’s a validation feeling,” Ward said. “We all like our own ideas, but if someone says, “I’ll give you air time on my radio station,’ that is a really awesome feeling.”

About the upcoming performance at the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival, Ward says he’s not nervous.

“It’s an opportunity,” he said.

“If I have an engaged audience, then I’m on. I get more self conscious when I’m singing to the back of people’s heads at a bar than I do when I’m singing at their faces. I feel like I’m having a conversation.”

Regardless of whether he makes it big and gets discovered, he’s going to keep singing.

“Some of my best memories are playing music, listening to music,” Ward said. “It’s something we can all agree on: We all can relate to music.”

National DJ to help emcee festival A visit from Shawn Parr, host of ‘Across the Country,’ signals festival’s growing prestige.

BRIAN McMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

If you’ve listened to country music on the radio anywhere in the country in the past several years — including Kix Country here in Flagler County — you might recognize the voice of disc jockey Shawn Parr, host of “Nash Nights Live” and now “Across the Country.” He will be joining 31 of the biggest names in country music songwriting at the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival, beginning with a free kickoff event 5 p.m. April 29, at European Village.

“Shawn Parr is well known in Nashville,” said David Ayres, general manager of Flagler Broadcasting, the parent company of Kix Country. “It’s a real endorsement of the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival — that it’s truly a national event.”

Launched by Garry Lubi, the festival features visiting writers this year who have written over 125 No. 1 hits.

“That says a lot about your particular festival,” said Parr, who has been in the DJ business for 30 years, along with acting in TV shows. He spoke with the Palm Coast Observer from his Nashville studio on April 22, as he prepared to make the trip.

What is special about songwriting festivals?

A lot of songwriters write with a particular artist in mind, and I think it’s fascinating how an artist can take a song and make it their own. When you hear the thought process of how some of the biggest hits in the world have bene created, it changes the meaning of the song for you as a listener.

How has country music changed in 30 years?

In the early 1990s, it was a completely different sound, and then you went through the mid 2000s where it went a little poppier, and it seems to me it’s turning that corner again, back to that traditional sound, with John Pardi, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church. It’s really in a good spot right now.

For the full Q+A, visit this story on www.palmcoastobserver.com.

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Daytona Playhouse presents “Greater Tuna,” directed by Tyler Adcock and Amanda Sayles.

What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Didi Snavely and Phineas Blye all have in common? They are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas’s third smallest town, where the Lion’s Club is too liberal, and Patsy Cline never dies.

“Greater Tuna,” the long-running off-Broadway hit, features three Palm Coast actors (Tyler Adcock, Timothy Wilds, and Amanda Sayles) creating the entire population of this small Texas town in a “tour de farce” of quick-change artistry ‘— doffing costumes and characters faster than a jack rabbit runs from a coyote. It was written (and originally performed) by Jaston Williams and Joe Sears with Ed Howard. The hilarious

send-up of small-town morals and mores will run through Sunday, May 2.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $19 for seniors, and $10 for kids age 18 and under. Buy online at www.DaytonaPlayhouse.org or call 386-255-2431.

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REYES JR. ACCEPTS CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL FOR FATHER

Palm Coast resident Marcelino Reyes Jr. represented his family of eight siblings on Sunday, April 11, in a virtual award ceremony, to accept the bronze replica of the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of their late father, Marcelino Reyes Sr., who served as a second lieutenant in the Philippine Commonwealth Army in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. He enlisted on December 17, 1941, a mere three weeks after his wedding and served in the mountains of Mindanao and the beaches of Leyte.

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FCSO’S LAVERNE HONORED

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Deputy First Class Daniel LaVerne was awarded the 2021 Distinguished Victim Services Award during a virtual version of the annual Victim’s Rights Week Ceremony hosted by Attorney General Ashley Moody.

LaVerne was nominated for this prestigious award for his role in a juvenile sexual offense case that occurred in 2020.

LUNCH BUNCH GIVES IMAGINE SCHOOL STUDENTS A VOICE

On April 19, Lisa O’Grady, principal of Imagine School, and James Menard, assistant principal, hosted a Lunch Bunch with one representative from each class in fourth through eighth grades. They discussed the results of the annual Imagine Schools’ Student Character Survey.

“Allowing students to have a voice always creates for very interesting dialogue and perspectives,” the school reported.

“We are thankful for a culture built on trust and valuing the opinions and voices of others.”

HISTORICAL SOCIETY EVENT ON MAY 1 Palm Coast Historical Society presents a presentation to celebrate Preservation Month.

Professor J. Michael Butler will present a lecture entitled “Magnificent Drama: Martin Luther King in St. Augustine, based on the Civil Rights leader’s visits in 1964. Lecture is in-person at the Palm Coast Community Center at 10 a.m. May 1.

The Lunch Bunch at Imagine School

First Coast Opera in collaboration with A Classic Theatre Present

A WORLD PREMIERE! Act I (Cox and Box) brings a classic Victorian farce written by Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan, in which two gentlemen unknowingly rent and live in the same apartment. When the landlord’s ruse is uncovered, Mr. Cox and Mr. Box discover that they share other things, including a past fiancée, Penelope Ann. Act 2 is a World Premiere written by First Coast Opera's Artistic Director Curtis Tucker and Nelson Sheeley. The story continues, ten years later.

In the new operetta, Penelope Ann returns to put the two men in their proper places, with the typical twists, turns, accusations, revelations, and hilarity of the best British farces.

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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced that Flagler County Dispatcher McKenzie Davis has been selected as the 2020 Florida State Elks Associations Law Enforcement Support Employee of the Year.

Davis began her career at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in 2018 at only 19 years old. She was nominated for the award by her supervisor and Sheriff Staly for the incredible work she did as a dispatcher in 2020, including saving the lives of four Flagler County residents, two in the same day.

Davis previously received the Florida Sheriff’s Association’s 9-1-1 Communications Operator of the Year award.

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Heavy lifters Flagler Schools’ top boys weightlifting performance at the state meet was FPC’s Dominique Bennett.

MATANZAS’ FINISHERS

For the Pirates, Aly LouisCharles led the way with the team’s highest finish, taking fourth overall in the 219 division. Louis-Charles cleared 330 pounds for the bench press and 275 for the clean and jerk to finish with a 605 total score. Nick Morin also cracked the top 10, finishing sixth in the heavyweight division.

Matanzas’ seventh-inning comeback comes up short

Matanzas sent seven weightlifters to the 2A championships on April 23-24 at Port St. Joe High School, and FPC sent three to compete on April 24 at St. Cloud High School.

FPC’s Domonique Bennett, Malakai Grant and Isaiah Rivers.

KA’DEEM WYNN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Morin cleared 375 pounds for the bench press — to tie the Matanzas school record — and 295 for the clean and jerk to finish with a 670 total score.

Jason Charles finished 12th in the 183 division after he cleared 285 pounds for the bench press and 225 for the clean and jerk to finish with a 510 total score. Richard Rigby was 14th in the 199 division after clear-

ing 285/240/525.

Cameron Sleep was 15th in the 119 division: 190/135/325. Donovan Try took 17th in the 139 division: 215/205/420. Cole Hash finished 18th in the 169 division: 250/215/465.

“I cannot be more proud of all seven of our guys that qualified for states,” Matanzas head coach Matthew Forrest.

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Matanzas team: Aly Louis-Charles, Nick Morin, Jason Charles, Richard Rigby, Cameron Sleep, Donovan Try and Cole Hash.

FPC’S FINISHERS

FPC’s Domonique Bennett had the highest finish out of the two local schools, taking second in the 129-pound boys’ weightlifting division.

Bennett finished with a total of 470 after clearing 240 pounds for the bench press and 230 for the clean and jerk.

Teammates Isaiah Rivers and Malakai Grant took fifth and 11th in their respective weight divisions at 154 and 199.

Rivers benched 285 and 235 for the clean and jerk to finish with a 520 total score, where Grant also benched 285 but hit 260 for the clean and jerk for a total of 545.

As a team, the Bulldog trio finished ninth in the state.

“The guys did everything that was asked of them and left it all on the platform,” FPC head coach Duane Hagstrom said. “To finish in the top 10 in the state with only three lifters is a great accomplishment by itself.”

BETH PAYTON GUEST WRITER

Matanzas muscled in three runs in the seventh, but lost 8-4 Deltona in their FHSAA district quarterfinal round on April 26.

The Deltona Wolves enjoyed a 6-1 lead by the third inning, but the Pirates staged a seventh-inning rally attempting to overtake the Wolves at the end.

Matanzas junior Michael Martinez hit a terrific triple, and senior Sean Sparling put up 2 RBIs in 4 at-bats in this game.

The pitching game for the Pirates saw junior Jacob Cope strike out six batters and senior pitcher Rex Robich strike out four batters in their time on the mound.

Matanzas ends the season with a 9-15 overall record and as second place in league play, going 3-2 on the year.

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Lighthouse Harbor apartment complex earns initial approval

Duplex proposal nixed after community complaints

NEWS EDITOR

Plans for a 240-unit luxury apartment complex at the proposed Lighthouse Harbor Marina Village development on Colbert Lane at Roberts Road earned an initial vote of approval from Palm Coast’s planning board on April 21.

“I’m glad to see this area starting to develop,” Alliant Engineering Southeast Regional Manager Curt Wimpée told the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board, adding that he’d been working in the area since 1999.

“It’s a beautiful development. It’s right on the harbor front. ... It’s a very wooded area; I think it’ll be a beautiful addition to Palm Coast.”

The complex is part of the larger Marina Village master planned

Image courtesy of the city of Palm Coast

The front elevation of one of the proposed apartment buildings.

development on the old Lehigh Cement property between Graham Swamp and the Intracoastal, next to the Brunswick boat production facility.

Marina Village as a whole is approved for 663 homes, 160,000 square feet of commercial space, 80 wet boat slips and 200 dry slips and was annexed from Flagler County to Palm Coast in 2019.

The luxury apartment complex’s 240 units would be divided between five four-story apartment buildings with 48 units each, on 22 acres.

“It’s right on the harbor front. ... It’s a very wooded area; I think it’ll be a beautiful addition to Palm Coast.”

CURT WIMPÉE, southeast regional manager, Alliant Engineering

Overall, there would be 80 onebedroom units of 700 square feet each, 120 two-bedroom units of 900 square feet each and 40 three-bedroom units at 1,020 square feet each, Palm Coast Senior Planner Bill Hoover told the planning board.

Four of the apartment buildings would have wetland views, while the fifth would look out over a stormwater retention pond with wetland views in the distance.

The buildings are under the city’s 60-foot height limit, Hoover said, and the development meets the city’s requirements for parking, garage space and number of exits, as well as the standards associated with the Marina Village master planned development.

The planning board voted 7-0 to recommend that the Palm Coast City Council approve the development’s master site plan.

Barrett, president of the Hidden Lakes community’s’ homeowners association, said the HOA hadn’t received notice of the proposed development.

“The problem here as far as I’m concerned is this thing is being rushed through,” Barrett said. “... There is a concern from a lot of people in the community about the increased traffic and the increased homes.”

Resident Darlene Shelley, of Arena Lake Drive, noted that the nearby Toscana and Hidden Lakes communities have high-value homes.

“It’s our strong belief that duplex zoning will cause excessive traffic, noise, demand on infrastructure and devalue our beautiful single-family homes,” she said. “This proposed change does not conform with this area of higher-end homes and does not complement the community in any way, as current zoning could benefit us.”

Cindy McDowall, a Graham Woods Place resident, urged the board not to change the existing zoning.

“These people came in here and assured themselves, did their own homework, that you would keep

“It’s our strong belief that duplex zoning will cause excessive traffic, noise, demand on infrastructure and devalue our beautiful single-family homes.”

DARLENE SHELLEY, area resident

Kings Road zoned commercial,” she said. “Offices, maybe a strip mall, maybe a coffee shop. ... Our goal is to keep our values up and keep them increasing.”

Board member James Albano suggested that the board vote against the proposal.

“I think this is more of an MPD [master planned development], and it just opens a large can of worms with just rezoning it as duplexes,” Albano said. “... And based on the applicants’ numerous iterations of ‘rental,’ that’s the reason for my motion.”

The board voted 7-0 to recommend that the City Council — which will hear the issue next — deny the proposed rezoning.

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A wooded vacant lot behind the Palm Coast Tennis Center, east of Belle Terre Parkway and south of Royal Palms Parkway, may be transformed into a gated community of 161 homes.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board voted 6-1 to approve the development’s subdivision master plan during an April 22 board meeting.

The proposed development would have 65 single-family homes on 50-foot-wide lots and 96 “paired villas” that would each have 38-foot-wide lots (76 feet per pair), spread over a 95.8acre parcel.

“Floor plans ... will be quite spacious,” said Ryan Blaida, a senior project planner with the engineering firm Connelly & Wicker. “They’ll have a two-car garage; some of them will be two stories.”

Blaida said the homes, to be constructed by the Toll Brothers building company, will have open floor plans and a modern style, and will be at least 2,000 square feet.

“Even though they’re a national homebuilder, they do have a lot of variations,” he said.

The homes will be offered at market rate and will not be workforce housing, he said in response to one board member’s question.

Referred to in city staff docu-

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ments as “Tennis Pod,” the development would include a board walk to the Tennis Center, sidewalks linking it to Central Avenue and Market Avenue, a pavilion and kayak launch at a retention lake off Market Avenue behind the Publix shopping center, and several yet-to-be-determined “active element” sites.

City staff evaluated the proposal and found that it met the city’s development standards, said Palm Coast Environmental Planning Technician Jordan Myers.

Board member James Albano, the sole dissenting vote, objected to the development’s density.

“I’m a design professional and a building professional, and I love new houses and new housing developments, but I have to say, I’m really disappointed in seeing all of these high-density, nar-

row-lot houses that come across us monthly,” he said. “It’s hard to create good architecture when you can build a 30-foot-wide house.”

He urged staff and developers to “rethink.”

“Palm Coast is a great place to live, but boy, we just don’t need to be on top of everybody,” he said. “And then on top of this, today I learned a new name for a duplex — a ‘paired villa.’ It’s a duplex! So, that’s my comment.”

Board member Jake Scully disagreed, praising the development’s walkability.

Construction of the development may be divided into two phases. Next steps include a preliminary plat that will be heard by the planning board, then a final plat that will go before the Palm Coast City Council.

The anticipated length of the wait list for a T-hangar at the Flagler Executive Airport just got shorter.

The Board of County Commissioners on April 19 approved a Florida Department of Transportation Public Transportation Grant Agreement for $117,000 that will completely fund the design costs for three new T-hangar buildings of 14 units each – a total of 42 new hangars.

“The airport currently has 56 T-hangars, which are all occupied,” Airport Director Roy Sieger said. “The T-hangar waiting list has 79 individuals on it, with an average waiting period of approximately two years to get a hangar.”

The last time T-hangars were added to the airports assets was in 2011. Two buildings housing 10 hangars each were built.

Construction costs for this new project will be about $2.8 million — $560,000 to the Flagler Executive Airport — but T-hangar leases will offset the costs and then some.

“These T-hangars provide a nice revenue stream, which is important for us because we operate as an enterprise fund,” Sieger said. “None of our operating funds – or capital project funds – come from property tax.

Everything is paid for through revenues from grants, or earned through ground and building leases and fuel sales.”

Sieger made a presentation to commissioners during an April 5 workshop that proposed that would delay a long anticipated new general aviation terminal by one year to build the 42 new hangars with the goal of increasing airport revenues.

The additional monies will be used in part to help repay the loan needed for the terminal, which will be about $1.3 million to be paid by the Flagler Executive Airport. The Florida Department of Transportation has committed to paying 80% of the $6.5 million.

County Administrator Jerry Cameron praised Sieger for his financial management. “This creates an income stream that will support the debt service for a future terminal building,” Cameron said. “It’s fiduciary responsibility.”

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Condos James and Carol Stanton, individually and as trustees, sold 3600 S. Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 914, to David Weston, of Flagler Beach, for $499,000.

Built in 1989, the condo is a 4/2.5 and has 2,020 square feet.

Robert and Susan Brown sold 25 Greenbriar Court, Unit 25, to Jill Hawk and Diane Senney, of Palm Coast, for $158,000. Built in 1980, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,150 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $84,500.

Cypress Knoll Vintage Estate Homes LLC, of Melbourne, sold 24 East Diamond Drive to Malik Aziz, of Brooklyn, for $374,900. Built in 2017, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,542 square feet.

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ACROSS 1 Cornfield calls 5 Patronize, as a deli 10 Passion 15 Duet’s number 18 Texter’s “I’d say ...”

19 Way to go 20 Titter sound 22 “I knew it!”

23 Pro at damage control (last 3 letters of this answer + ...)

25 Desirable employee (... first 2 of this answer) 27 New Mexico pueblo 28 Olympics prize 30 Up and about

Hidden Lakes Darrell and Jill Murphy, of Palm Coast, sold 18 Arena Lake Circle to Melvin Palmer, of Palm Coast, for $359,900. Built in 2018, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,843 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $298,000.

Hunter’s Ridge Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 40 Huntington Place to David and Susan Dorner, as trustees, for $297,632. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,885 square feet.

Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 44 Huntington Place to Rupert and Rowena Petty, of Ormond Beach, for $293,990. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,885 square feet.

Indian Trails Brite Properties of Florida LLC,

Built in 1986, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,986 square feet. It sold in 2012 for $122,000.

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The top seller has golf course views and is located near the ocean.

of Orlando, sold 34 Birchwood Drive to Belen Duong, of Palm Coast, for $270,899. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,779 square feet.

Lehigh Woods Luis Santiago and Belen Rios, of Avon Park, sold 69 Robinson Drive to Mark and Deborah Schlesser, of Palm Coast, for $268,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,980 square feet.

WJHFL LLC, of Greensboro, North Carolina, sold 4 Ryecroft Lane to Gabriella Foran and John Okeefe, of Palm Coast, for $213,990. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,650 square feet.

Matanzas Woods Ana Fajardo, of Palm Coast, sold 44 Louisville Drive to Charles and Cindi Hackney, of Hilliard, Ohio, for $549,000.

Built in 2004, the house is a 6/5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 6,439 square feet.

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95 One may break a board

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111 “Dig in!” (... first 3) 116 ___ baby (fluffy pet, to its owner) 117 Iron deficiency 118 “Fingers crossed!”

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Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 8 Larchmont Place to Tommie Krawiec and Judd Schermerhorn, of Palm Coast, for $309,096. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/3 and has 3,190 square feet.

Pine Lakes Seagate Homes LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 20 Woodlawn Drive to Irina and Aleksandr Sipko, of Spokane, Washington, for $361,230. Built in 2021, the house is a 5/4 and has 3,154 square feet.

Patrick Joyce Jr., of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, sold 27 Wood Arbor Lane to Teresa Snow, of Palm Coast, for $200,000. Built in 2006, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,799 square feet.

Not in Subdivision Ruth Wylie-Le Beau and Donnie Pounders sold 14 Meridian Home Lane to James Ginella III, as trustee, for $950,000. Built in 2019, the house is a 4/4 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,868 square feet.

Plantation Bay William and Susan Davison, of Ormond Beach, sold 10 Magnolia Lane to Prodyut Poddar, of Ormond Beach, for $665,000. Built in 1989, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 4,612 square feet.

Palm Coast Plantation Valdemar and Alzira Cunha, of Flagler Beach, sold 296 S. Riverwalk Drive to Antonio and Wilma Alicea, of Palm Coast, for $537,500. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,458 square feet.

Sawmill Creek D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 103 Rivertown Road to Henry and Kimberly Veldenz, of St. Augustine, for $278,010. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Pine Grove Wayne and Kelly Deacon, of Bristol, Tennessee, sold 37 Pine Grove Drive to Ilya Lubenskiy, of Palm Coast, for $225,000.

Toby Tobin, of gotoby.com, contributed to this report.

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house in Hammock Beach was the top real estate transaction for the week of March 18-24 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. L.E. Shepherd Jr., individually and as trustee, sold 5 Hammock Beach Court to Billy and Anita Smith, of Bixby, Oklahoma, for $1.05 million. Built in 2004, the house is a 5/4/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool, elevator and 4,183 square feet.

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Rick's Power Washing

State Certified License CCC1325974

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Licensed & Insured

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Painting

386.931.4614

712 South Oceanshore Blvd.

Flagler Beach, Florida 32136

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“Specialist In Hard to Find Leaks” Shingle | Tile | Metal | Flat | Re-Roof Structural Repair | Skylights

386.677.9265 State Licensed | Insured CCC1328252 | CBC1254280

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2 Generations Family Owned & Operated

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Licensed • Insured Master Plumber CFC1426001

Office: 386-264-6281 Cell: 904-669-7743

NEXT RUN DATE: 04/01/20

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Fast, Reliable Service

Rick Crouse, owner Licensed and Insured

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439-3191 386-445-3305

27 years experience

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