- December 15, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council will revisit the idea of allowing home-based food businesses to operate in town.
At its April 10 workshop, the City Council reached consensus to delay aligning its regulations on the cottage food industry with the new state legislation, which was signed into law last year.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Palm Coast residents Rick de Yampert and Cheryl Sheppard asked the City Council to revisit the idea.
“We respectfully say to the council that Cheryl and I should have the opportunity to make our quite compelling arguments to the council,” de Yampert said Tuesday.
De Yampert also questioned the city’s workshop process.
“As someone who has covered city governments as a journalist, I understand the necessities of workshops,” de Yampert said. "But, whether or not an official vote was taken at the April 10 workshop, whether or not the city policy or law allowed you to vote on this matter, we can say this: It seems you’ve already decided this issue and — this is key — Cheryl and I did not even have any chance to address you, the council, before you decided.
“A public workshop meeting in which the public can provide no input? To us, such a government process seems fundamentally flawed and backward,” he continued.
City Councilman Jason DeLorenzo told the City Council that he would like to see a presentation from Sheppard and de Yampert, as well as any other residents, at an upcoming workshop.
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