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7 hours ago Share A new zoning designation could come with incentives and relaxed restrictions in exchange for lower prices, on a case-by-case basis.
Flagler County is considering a new zoning designation that would give the County Commission wide latitude to approve incentives, densities and heights of developments in an effort to increase affordable housing. The changes would not impact Palm Coast or Flagler’s other cities.
“Every county in the country is screaming the same thing: that they need more affordable, workforce housing,” said County Commissioner Joe Mullins, who also serves on the county’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. “We want to send the message that we’re open for business.”
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Off they’ll go again. (Palm Coast)
The annual Palm Coast fireworks celebration of Independence Day will return this year on July 3 along with the traditional Central Park picnic, with no restrictions on attendance except for a recommendation of physical distancing.
The city has been marking its own July 4 celebrations in tandem with Flagler Beach since 2010, always a day before or a day after Flagler Beach’s big-draw event that’s held on July 4. The announcement was a surprise: it was not discussed by the city council, neither at a meeting nor at a workshop.
But this year, like last year, Flagler Beach has elected not to go ahead with its July 4 parade and fireworks, citing covid safety issues and the impossibility of practicing physical distancing along the parade route or even on the beach and along State Road A1A when the fireworks go off. Anyone who’s attended Flagler Beach’s July 4 celebrations would be familiar with its throngs of people as the barrier island bec