DeFUNIAK SPRINGS Walton County commissioners will hold a public hearing later this month on an ordinance proposal from local attorney Gary Shipman that would allow digital parking enforcement on private property across the county.
The hearing is set for the commission s Feb. 23 meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. at the South Walton Courthouse Annex at 31 Coastal Centre Blvd. off U.S. Highway 331 South near U.S. Highway 98. The meeting will be available for public participation online via Zoom teleconferencing at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86012293137.
Shipman, working on behalf of several communities along County Road 30A, is proposing an ordinance that would allow trained and licensed security personnel to use smart immobilization devices to enforce parking regulations on private property. A particular concern, Shipman said at the recent commission meeting where he introduced his proposal, is the use of golf carts along and near County Road 30A, which he said drivers see
Herring was recently active in opposition to a solar electric power generation facility proposed by Gulf Power for more than 850 acres in the northern part of the county, contending then to commissioners that the facility was not a proper use in an agricultural area.
In a related bit of business, commissioners on Tuesday ratified a decision they made last month to deny a development order that would have allowed construction of the Gulf Power facility to proceed. Tuesday s final vote not to approve a development order was the same as the commission s December vote, with Commissioners Danny Glidewell, William McCormick and Mike Barker voting to deny the order, and Commissioners Trey Nick and Tony Anderson dissenting.
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS Walton County Commissioner William Boots McCormick will ask his commission colleagues Tuesday to consider a resolution on former president Donald Trump s extension of a federal moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to the year 2032.
McCormick has placed the issue on the agenda for the commission s meeting, set for 9 a.m. at the courthouse annex on Coastal Centre Boulevard off U.S. Highway 331 in Santa Rosa Beach. The meeting also will be available for public participation online via the Zoom teleconferencing tool at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89735026838.
Information attached to McCormick s request, posted on the county government s website at https://rb.gy/lxino6, includes a resolution apparently previously submitted by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who represents Northwest Florida in Congress.
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