- December 4, 2025
Dear Editor:
Responding to the comments of Bob Gordon and Mary Zito (“Observer,” Thursday, July 10), I wish these two folks had run for Palm Coast City Council.
Bob and Mary are right on! My son tried raising chickens in his back yard in a pretty little town up in Georiga. Cost him money for the babies, feed and a wire chicken run to house the babies. Later he built an air-conditioned coop for them but allowed them out to feed on the grass in the daytime.
His wife came home one day to find eight headless chickens in their yard and a fox galloping off their ninth. Three had already died mysteriously. He gave up on getting 12 “free” eggs every day.
And regarding Mary’s feedback – I bought here precisely because there are restrictions on what un-civil people can do in our neighborhood. For those who want to park trucks and RVs and boats and junk cars in their driveway, they should consider living in the county where there are no restrictions.
Leave the rest of us to wallow in our misery in our clean and civil neighborhoods. The mayor certainly cannot possibly represent a majority of homeowners here on these two ordinances. Put both items to a vote! Please!
William Lyon
Palm Coast
