- April 26, 2024
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Palm Coast’s Public Works facility on U.S. 1 at Hargrove Grade has a litany of problems: There’s not enough meeting space. Not enough bathrooms. Water seeps inside the buildings during storms. It needs a covered fleet service area.
The city now has a plan to begin fixing those issues, starting with a set of repairs and upgrades that are not to exceed a total of $975,000.
The City Council voted unanimously at its May 7 meeting to approve the proposal, which will be undertaken without any new taxes or fees.
The money will pay for additional bathrooms, an indoor meeting and training area, a covered fleet service area, and gutters and grading to improve drainage. New lifts will be added to Fire Station 25 for fire truck maintenance that has previously been performed at the Public Works facility.
The $975,000 would be the first phase of the plan for Public Works. Over the course of the following seven years — the predicted life of the temporary fixes that would be covered by the $975,000 — the city expects to spend potentially as much as $26.4 milling building a new facility.
City Councilman Eddie Branquinho, who’d expressed worry during a previous council meeting about the safety of the fleet maintenance operations at the facility, said staff members had allayed his concerns.
“I would like to thank you for the improvements,” Branquinho said after Fire Chief Jerry Forte gave a presentation on the proposed changes. “My main worry, which was the safety — it’s completely done.”
A rezoning approved by the City Council May 7 will allow the cemetery at the Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home to expand.
The council approved the rezoning of 7.1. acres abutting the funeral home, about half a mile south of State Road 100 and east of Old Kings Road.
The zoning designation is changing from Flagler County’s designation of agriculture (AC) to the city of Palm Coast’s designation of general commercial (COM-2) and preservation (PRS).
The Future Land Use Map designation for the parcel is currently mixed use, with a sliver of conservation on the eastern side. The part that’s mixed use will be zoned general commercial, and the conservation area will become preservation.
City staff and the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board approved of the changes.
