Victor Barbosa, the Palm Coast City Council member, in a still from a prosecutorial Facebook video he posted about a property in the city.
Since his election in November, and more so after he was himself the subject of code enforcement violations, Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa had taken to Facebook to publicize properties he considered to be in violation of city codes. Using his phone, he’d take video of a given property, comment about what he saw, post the video and pictures to his Facebook account, and let the address be disclosed.
“This is disgusting. I can’t believe that this is happening here in Palm Coast,” he said of one property in March as he walked around it. “Wow. I don’t know. So, the people that always put on Facebook that a working vehicle is, how do they say it, that a working vehicle is an eyesore, I think this is an eyesore. I think living next to this, this is a eyesore. Look at that. I’ll be writing a letter to the city manager about
2 hours ago Share The intimidation by a few residents at May 4 s city meeting was despicable. It also distracted many from a discussion of the choice to spend $5 million on the tennis center.
I sat in the very back of the Palm Coast City Council chambers on the night of May 4 as a few men took out their frustrations by shouting at other residents, refusing to follow the rules of procedure, and even challenging others to a fight, ostensibly about their views on the future of the tennis center.
It was an awful atmosphere the opposite of “community.”
To Mayor Milissa Holland and the law enforcement officers who help keep the peace, I want to say thank you for your efforts and your bravery. I, too, condemn such acts of public intimidation.
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Is the city of Palm Coast business friendly? Contrary to some anecdotes in the past, new data collected by city staff through surveys and stakeholder meetings show that the vast majority are very satisfied with the city’s permitting, inspections and customer service.
Chief Development Officer Jason DeLorenzo reported at the City Council workshop May 11 that, in recent months, three charrettes, or stakeholder meetings, were attended by a total of 50 people; email surveys were filled out by 287 business stakeholders people with experience dealing with city business departments.