- July 12, 2025
Dear Editor:
Tossing sensibility to the wind and perpetuating the many controversies attributable to this City Council, Palm Coast residents will be able to paint their house in any color they want [upon the finalization of a new ordinance]. It was a notion heralded by the mayor when he first arrived on the scene. It was a way over-the-top idea then and remains as such even though the council has fallen in line.
On the council’s pending table are considerations of even more controversy bound to also tick off a lot of neighbors — backyard residential chicken coops and the forever parking of potentially colorfully decorated commercial vehicles in residential driveways. The commercial vehicle idea is the mayor’s baby, as well.
Combined with anything goes house colors, it conjures up a whole new aesthetic feel for our town and not at all in a good way — more like a rural traveling carnival scene than a Florida neighborhood. Only the carnival won’t be traveling on.
You want a black house with purple trim, a paisley pink commercial truck parked in your driveway, with chickens roaming in your yard, you got it. You want even more freedom for your little castle? Maybe a little more tackiness? Just ask the apparently “happy to oblige” mayor and the council.
After witnessing, in a mere seven months, the unacceptable and almost unbearable array of chaotic divisive nonsense and bad behavior emanating from our City Council, but more particularly the mayor, the legacy of this council is panning out to be one for the history books.
Mary Zito
Palm Coast
