- December 16, 2025
Two major roadways in Palm Coast could be getting bigger and better, according to the City Council.
The Palm Coast City Council recommended in a workshop Tuesday, March 8, that Orlando-based Dyer, Riddle, Mills & Precourt Inc. be awarded the contract widen Palm Coast Parkway to six lanes.
Palm Coast-based construction firm WadeTrim missed a tie by only one vote from an evaluation team of traffic engineers and general consultants. Of the ranking system in place, Mayor Jon Netts said: “The process is set forth by state statue. We follow the process.”
The widening plan, which would run from Cypress Point to Florida Park Drive, includes adding new turn lanes and sidewalks, tightening turning radii onto highway ramps and correcting intersections and landscaping.
The bridge on Palm Coast Parkway is already prepared for six lanes and would only require slight variations. City Manager Jim Landon suggested that older piping in the prospective construction areas be replaced, as well.
A vote to move forward with the state- and federally funded project will be held at the next City Council meeting, Tuesday March 15.
Though the designs reviewed in the workshop were preliminary, and extensive maintenance of traffic planning is still ahead, City Council member Frank Meeker indicated he was excited to get started. To widen these roads and correct the bottleneck onto highway ramps, he said, has long been a priority of the council.
No timetable for the project has yet been established.
Pine Lakes Parkway North
Pine Lakes Parkway North could be another roadway to receive a makeover from the city.
Along with adding left-turn lanes for safety and increased street capacity, incorporating asphalt sidewalks and extending road shoulders, the council is looking into “undergrounding” the streets’ utilities for better hurricane and fire protection.
With design costs of $99,000, the project is estimated to amount to $1.5 million. Also, only three driveways in the area would reportedly be affected — none of them residential.
“It shouldn’t be a hard project,” Landon said.
