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Nicole Buckles 0:24:29

Good morning Mayor and commissioners Um I'm Nicole Buckles Chief of Staff at the Clerk and Comptroller's office On behalf of Clerk Bexley and the entire clerk team thank you for recognizing the importance of Records and Information Management Month and for acknowledging the vital role our records professionals play in preserving and protecting the public record The clerk and Comptroller's office serves as custodian of official county records or as Clerk Bexley calls them precious county records ensuring that essential documents such as deeds mortgages and other property records are accurately recorded securely maintained and readily accessible to the public Across Florida and the nation property fraud has become a growing concern often affecting property owners without their knowledge To help protect our community the clerk and Comptroller's office offers a free recording notification system The service allows residents to sign up using their name or business and receive alerts anytime a document is recorded in their name While the system cannot prevent fraud It provides an early warning system that enables property owners to act quickly and safeguard their interest Clerk Bexley encourages all residents to take advantage of this free service by visiting our website flaglerclerk.gov clicking on the life ring and signing up Remember fraud can't hide when you're notified Thank you again for your support

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Brielle Goldberg 0:29:35

good morning Um my name is Brielle Goldberg I'm president of a local water safety nonprofit Water Safe Inc I'm also a local swim instructor for the last 7 years While May is National Water Safety Month drowning knows no month or season In 2025 120 children lost their lives to drowning in Florida 25% of those children were diagnosed with autism Children with autism are 160 times more likely than their peers to experience a drowning Now in 2026 we've already had 28 children lose their lives to drowning in Florida Drowning is a preventable tragedy yet it leads the nation as an unintentional death for children Formal swim lessons pool safety barriers constant supervision and knowing CPR are just a few layers of protection against drowning that all parents caregivers and pool owners should know Thank you for recognizing National Water Safety Month in Palm Coast and helping spread

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Jeannie Duarte 0:32:44

Good morning Jeannie Duarte Who is really running this city Because more and more it feels like the majority of decisions are no longer being driven by the people of Palm Coast or even this council but by consultants outside firms developers administrative agendas moving forward regardless of concerns Uh who approved all of this development Who authorized all who authorized to bypass the voters to move forward with the data center under SEC and uh But allows for expansion Who authorized to bypass the voters for the wastewater to potable water program known as toilet to tap Who authorized the bypass of the voters to rewrite the charter after the 2018 election Who authorized to bypass the voters to change the charter again April 25 2022 And now we see the same pattern repeating itself with the loop road Despite repeated council concerns traffic environmental and financial concerns it still continues to move forward At what point do consultants stop advising and start controlling policy and at what cost It seems to buy we seem to be passing out cash for consultants yet somehow it's too expensive to hold a special election POM Coast belongs to the residents not the consultants not special interests not developers and not unelected administrative influence People deserve transparency The people deserve accountability and above all the people deserve to maintain the final authority over the future of POMCOS With all the evidence brought forward I on behalf of the citizens of Palcoast call for the immediate resignation of the expired appointed District 4 seat held hostage by Charles Gambaro I also call for the immediate firing of the city attorney Marcus Duffy and his firm Thank you Thank you ma'am Anyone else for public comment

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Mr Stone 0:35:03

Mr Stone Stone I recently Well let me backtrack a little bit My dad was one of the biggest attorneys in New York City He not only represented New York City He had a very connection to people out in Vegas and he opened up a lot of the major hotels He was on the negotiation sides He also represented on the legal side of business the Maritime Union Meyer Lansky and Mr Sullivan you may recognize that name You're only a couple of years older than me and Big Paul What's going on in this city is a disgrace This woman is running for city council And you have a city attorney that's been way out of line and has targeted it to her So not only myself a lot of people have gotten frustrated coming to these meetings and there's about 6 or 7 different groups of people that are writing multiple letters Your attorney I just wrote a letter to the bar association saying he needs to be investigated You don't target a citizen It's not his duty or responsibility to target a citizen and he's done it on multiple occasions What the bar association decides to do with him They do with them That's it Thank you sir Anyone else for public comment Yes sir

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George Mayo 0:36:56

Good morning George Mayo Palm Coast Uh with the public works recently there was a lightning storm struck that struck and split a tree uh on city property next to my neighbor's house I wanna give kudos to the tree uh division They came out there uh assess the situation uh cut it up removed it safely cleaned it up Uh they did an excellent job and that is a very dangerous uh job to have was cutting trees up and everything So my kudos to your tree department You have an excellent one before our new city manager was installed I was here and asked you to put up nor truck signs on Beltaire Boulevard which runs south from 100 down to US 1 because of tractor trailers using that as a cut through Uh you have uh Different trucks flatbed trucks that are empty heading south they're probably avoiding the weigh station You have tank trucks that are placarded which means they have hazardous materials or flammable materials on it There's no way they need to be going down Beltaire Boulevard They have Enterprise Way off 100 that was opened They can Use that they can go right down to their uh the council said they were gonna look into it possibly talk about it in a workshop I hope you can do that put no through truck signs recently all of a sudden now I see FTC tractor trailer school using that going up and down uh that is not necessary through that situation uh my other thing is Data centers uh there have been two recent uh reports or segments on 60 Minutes at different times I've seen segments on CNN about data centers They are large water users 90% of the time in the country where data center goes in the electric rates for the community rise and go up sometimes dramatically In one community in Pennsylvania they put a data center Everybody was for it And then all of a sudden they had a 24/7 loud harmonic hum going on People complained to the city council there they had to pay six figures to get somebody out there to try and figure where that large harmonic hum was coming from It wasn't there before the data center but it was there after uh Just think twice before we get into that they always proclaim we need jobs we need jobs but any walkthrough that I've seen of data centers it's just large Servers row after row of servers and have yet to see a worker inside one doing anything It's not like a factory where you're gonna have 100 people doing this that or whatever their job may be Servers once they're in there they're kind of like a storage unit You have two people in the office and everything else just doesn't work So think twice please about data centers I know we need jobs and I know we need tech but I don't think that is a solution Thank you very much

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Mr McDonald 0:40:08

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Dennis McDonald 1:08:32

Dennis McDonald I'm

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Jeannie Duarte 1:09:13

Jeannie Duarte I am concerned with the funds for the fleet management um Those have been excessive through the last few years Also to the uh dredging I have a question on if they can't dredge it because it's so silty is there a way of doing a suction instead to remove those Silk Contaminants So anyways thank you Thank you ma'am Anyone else for public comment Uh seeing no one come forward we'll bring it back to dust Could you answer that question Oh I'm sorry Lynn dipped out Lynn could you answer that question real quick about the way they're dredging as as opposed to Any type of suction operations they could do I'm I'm I'm assuming this is like a standard practice for these companies Lynn Stevens deputy director of stormwater engineering yes it it it is not feasible to use a vac truck and try and vacuum the silty unsuitable soils out of there It's standard standard practice for that company that type of dredge it out an excavator Thank you ma'am You're welcome Any anything else from the council Uh Ms Cook called a vote

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George Mayo 1:20:09

George Mayo Palm Coast uh the next street that he refers to is Zebulus Trail which is a horseshoe that goes right around and there's a second Zebulus Trail which I live right off of that intersection right now currently can be and at times is just a real mess Uh sometimes coming northbound during what I call retiree rush hour when all of us go out at 2 o'clock before everybody gets out of work I have seen traffic back all the way up to the senior center that's there all the way up to 100 People going south still try and hold up traffic to turn left into Starbucks to get their Starbucks blocking traffic You do have a center lane to turn by uh tractor supply But I see people coming out I saw initial reviews of what this project is gonna come out and try and turn left to go northbound This is without any extra turn lanes This is just gonna create I know because I've lived there gonna create at times a monumental disaster for traffic I do not see so far they haven't started an entrance or exit on 100 so it appears everything's gonna be in and out of Bel Aire Boulevard and when I spoke about Beltaire Boulevard that is only two lanes that is not a four lane road from 100 to US 1 that's only two lanes So I can see already with the construction trucks going in people slow down sometimes the traffic turning left going south onto Beltaire Boulevard backs up onto 100 and blocks the road So I really want you to get as much land as possible to try and solve this situation or it is gonna be a traffic nightmare I absolutely know that So please help Thank you very

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Tony Amaral 1:22:09

Good morning Tony Amaral Palm Coast That property is 862 ft long Times 12 is 10,344 square feet We need it Don't get me wrong it does tee into the private property of a residence that as the corner of Zebulis I believe it was goes through We will have given credits for impact fees of 630,000 or 650,000 in the last The idea is great the value is questionable and I appreciate you guys asking that and set it aside 10,344 square feet It's slightly bigger than an 80 by 125 palm but it does seem steep Now where does it say you have to fully credit them You can partially credit them That would be less out of their pocket to pay But it does seem steep and I thank you for bringing it up Thank you sir Any further public comment Seeing that one come forward we'll bring it back to the dice Fona you think if we were to pull it and try to renegotiate They are about to be um um they they already under construction They

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Jeannie Duarte 1:39:29

Jeannie Duarte you had 90 days to make an appointment unless the vacancy occurred within 6 months of the next regularly scheduled election So you only had 90 days The vacancy occurred 79 days before the next generally scheduled election So basically from May 5th To the election date November 5th There should never have been An election or an appointment held According to your new language you only had 90 days unless it shows it right here on the unless a vacancy occurs within 6 months of the regularly scheduled election Which it did So

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Carla Amaral 2:05:48

Good morning Mayor and council My name is Carla Amaral and I am the vice chair of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee Today I believe this project represents both an opportunity and potentially a missed opportunity I want to be clear I support innovation I support flexibility and I support finding ways to make housing more attainable But if we are going to change ordinances and create substantial economic value for a project we should ask a very simple question What public benefit are we receiving in return As outlined in the proposed ordinance the city is being asked to approve significant development flexibility The ordinance would allow single-family residential where it was previously designated multi-family reduce minimum lot sizes allow 30-foot wide lots The minimum living area would be 1000 square feet Allow one-car garages for homes under 1550 square feet of living area reduce setbacks and increase development efficiency Those are substantial economic incentives Smaller lots reduce land cost per home Smaller homes significantly reduce construction costs One-car garages reduce construction costs even further And again I want to be very clear I am not saying these changes are wrong In fact I strongly support flexibility when it comes when it helps create attainable housing But this becomes a missed opportunity if we do not ask for workforce affordability in return Because while the ordinance includes requirements for landscaping breaks parks and playground amenities it does not include affordability requirements affordability periods workforce housing set asides or AMI targets At the same time your own housing needs assessment tells us that nearly half of Palm Coast households earn at or below area median income while the median home price is now over 350,000 Our teachers nurses firefighters sheriff deputies medical workers young families and seniors are increasingly being priced out of home ownership So if the city is creating substantial economic value through zoning changes reduced lot sizes reduced home sizes and development flexibility Why would we not require some percentage of these homes to remain attainable for Palm Coast's workforce Other cities throughout Florida already do this legally through workforce housing agreements affordability covenants and development agreements tied to affordability periods because this is bigger than just building homes This is about whether working families in Palm Coast will still have a path to stability homeownership and generational wealth Thank you

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Dennis McDonald 2:09:05

One of the things I urge you to look at here and put some kind of caveat on is the fact that you haven't addressed the parking issue You've got individual units You're going to have at least 2 maybe 3 cars for every unit You're reducing the size of the lots There's no place to go with this And yet I've spoken before to you and I can tell you that when I look around Palm Coast It seems especially in the multi-family and the very tight neighborhoods the high density neighborhoods nobody uses their garage and this is something that you need to require if you're going to be able if you're going to want to go forward with this OK You got to use your garage to park a car in it because you're getting credit for a parking space for it So it has to be carried forward especially when you're cranking down the density like this There's no question that this is a very unique situation and it's being done on its own on its own piece of property Um so you know that that's certainly a plus 4 in that respect but don't trip it up And and create all kinds of problems for the sheriff having fights with who's parking where and what and how a garage is utilized You've got to put a caveat on this so that the garage has to be used as its parking space which the planning department is a requirement So put it into the to the approval that they've got to use their garage as a garage not as a storage area not as a living area or an exercise room or anything else OK Cause the density is way down on this and I built density I know what it does to people So um I would like you to for a second here if you could put that map up of the of the project I want to just show you something here that one thank you very much OK so my question is why wasn't there a construction bond I don't care who did what and you know with the drainage water and the damage that was done to the mill The question is why wasn't there a construction bond in place to take care of that Why wasn't the planning Department and the people who pushed this stuff forward where is the construction bond that would have covered the um uh the the dedicated lands and the uh the historical lands that we have out there that would have taken care of any of the damage The other point I wanted to make on this is that if you look at this plan it's it's already done for It was a long time ago but look at it and consider the situation that we're in right now with the water having been a guy who built a couple 2 or 3 water companies in his own right Look at that project It's all impervious and you're saying to me Oh Mr McDonald it's not impervious Look at that big blue lake in the center there From an engineering standpoint that might as well be a parking lot It's the same coefficient because when the when the rain comes down hard the water goes it's just as hard as a blacktop surface and it goes right off and ruins the mill So you know when you approve these things and you see all this water it's impervious Thank you

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George Mayo 2:12:25

good morning or good afternoon Almost uh George Mayo Palm Coast uh I agree with Ms Pontieri It's kind of a good situation It's a bad situation You're you're you're damned if you do and damned if you don't It helps the situation but it doesn't Uh what I've asked this council before and ask any developer this is fine Well when you talk about workforce housing still at that price there are gonna be people who cannot afford a $250,000 house It sounds like yeah you could but some people just can't I have asked many times before many council before to see if you could get a developer to put in tiny homes houses that are 800 to 1000 square feet a community just with a uh not with a garage but just a little driving slot And have it uh well built There's one down in Daytona right off US 1 I've seen there's other places that is workforce housing and that is all sometimes uh retired single people or widow widowers that's all they require uh you know uh 800 to 1000 square foot home is more than enough more than they need and that is workforce housing And if you had its own primary development and it was kept up it would be just as nice as something else so that is something to think about in the future you may have to change zoning rules and everything but that would work That is true workforce housing Thank you very much

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Laura Payne 2:13:59

Hello I'm Laura Payne I've been a resident of Palm Coast for 25 years Um I want to just discourage just this continuous building I have seen my quality of life decline in Palm Coast especially over the last 10 years and I think that we should slow down I agree that expansion is inevitable Growth is going to be positive in the future but it needs to be planned properly and and slow down

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Jeffrey Brown 2:14:44

Jeffrey Brown B section Palm Coast I apologize for my attire I uh just came straight from the pool Those extremely limited hours that the only public pool in this county has makes it very difficult to do anything So um you know unless you're retired or you know this is just for a day off But yes just apologizing for my attire Uh good morning Mr Mayor Fellow council members Um pertaining to this every time I watch one of these meetings every time I see the posts on Facebook it's build build build That's it $140 million for a loop bro There's gonna be 22,000 more houses built here 40,000 more cars and build build build When when when when are we gonna have like a community center for the youth in this in this city You know there's problems with the police ripping them they rip around on their e-bikes all the time They have nowhere to go they have nothing to do How how many millions of dollars are you going to procure from the state for a loop road through a swamp and then not build anything for for the kids that live here And all those thousands of kids are gonna come move into all these houses you've got up here When when is when is something like that that really benefits the community When is something like that gonna happen That's what I'd like to know And I'm only here because I know a lot of people can't get to these meetings cause you have them at 9 1011 o'clock in the morning Most people are working I was fortunate to have some flexible time today So I wanted to come down here and Speak to you in person I know I've seen a lot of you at things like First Friday and whatnot But I know a lot of people you know they're sick and tired All 22,000 homes and then a few more 1000 here a few more 1000 there And the roads are crumbling and the swales are overflowing Nothing gets hardly ever dug out Yeah It just gets worse and worse like that like that lady said But no we can we need to build 200 30 40,000 more homes and get 50,000 more cars in here How's that gonna improve the quality of life for the residents that have been here 5 1015 20 years something like that It won't It's not going to Honestly I I I don't know what you all think you're doing with approving all this Every single time I I look at the YouTube videos and the posts on social media build build build You don't fix anything and you don't improve anything with facilities like the kids How many how many teenagers are in this town that have nothing to do all the time Cause there's nowhere to go and there's nothing for them to do How much trouble would it be to get uh you know half a million dollars to build some decent community center like Saint John's County has or Volusia has Thank you for your time and good day to you all Thank you sir Anyone else for public comment Um seeing no one come forward we'll bring it back to us Any follow-ups from the council

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Ms. Amarall 2:36:24

Ms Amarall We'll buy that land and we'll fill it and we'll build some Smaller homes She said no Earl

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Earl at Emerald Palm Coast 2:36:34

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at Emerald Palm Coast Uh I just wanted to let you guys know that when you look up the city of Palm Coast um owned property and then you print it out it's 68 pages um you guys have a ton of lots on Furnace Fulton You have duplex lots on Farmsworth Fanshawe Bradmore so I'm not exactly sure why they weren't on this list Or as a as an option for this list So we'll get the answer Straight away any further comments from the public Can you answer that Miss Virginia Miss uh what's the criteria that Miss Jackie I'm sorry Can you answer that question as far as yeah so those are um either bought with specific dollars that are designated um for the city to purchase and maintain and they are uh very close to big big mulberry branch uh conservation areas uh Yeah there's a There is an actual wetland water flow area in there which would pertain There are maybe two lots there that could have been done but it will take some infill but there is a wetland flow area there that would actually go through those and you cannot build in those areas at all

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Ms. Virginia Miss Jackie 2:38:41

Ms Virginia Miss Jackie Um we're gonna move on to item K our our last public comment Anyone have any final public comments for the council

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Mr. McDonald 2:38:58

I stuck around here a little bit to to use this opportunity to get an answer to a question that I asked before OK My question was when we were talking about the change in density of the MPD 6431 was the number OK Um Obviously you know we've all heard a number of accounts of exactly what went on on the historical lands that the ag museum has There's been all kinds of things written about it It's it's in the social media It's everywhere My question is basically this as as a developer OK I had to put up construction bonds and so I'd like to know before I move move from this room whether or not there was a construction bond that was required by the city of By this city by the land use administrator before these people went out there and cleared and this situation evolved is there a construction bond that would have made had some type of uh ability to cover this OK everybody is saying oh it's not my fault It's not my fault Well it's the city's fault for not requiring a bond So if there isn't a bond why wasn't there one And the question is why isn't there a policy to require a construction bond Because when you create a point of discharge anytime I ever created a point of discharge I was responsible for it And so whether I had to to do a downstream analysis or any one of a number of things that came before me All I'm saying is that I need an answer because I'm going to go to the county with this because the county is struggling with coming up with an answer on this also you know as to what the the you know who did what The bottom line is is that how are we going to fix it and how are we going to prevent it the next time so that there's some way to look back on this and get some resolution for the general public Thank you very much Thank

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George Mayo 2:41:03

George Mayo Palm Coast uh I recently saw a video on TV We are always here looking to put in new ballparks new football parks new baseball parks for the children and everything There's still a lot of senior citizens and retirees here Two people that moved into my street are retirees so we still have to consider that And what I saw on TV was a city put up a park I won't say what city And if you look at it it looks just like the regular park with permanent equipment out there like kids would have the seesaw and and whatever else Well this was a senior or a retiree senior citizen park and what it has is uh the pipes with about a 2 ft wheel centered with a bolt and a handle so that people can go there and use seniors move their uh elbows their arms and whatever Standing in place uh steps made of metal where you would see in any gym so you're walking in place and there are other things built specifically for seniors and what it has done it's covered to keep them out of the sun to get people out of their houses and cure loneliness and they've made contacts and now these people are contacting with each other So if we're going to build a park please consider that you know have a senior park You have plenty of parks Highland Park for the kids and that's all well and good but maybe there's time we think of putting in a senior park The other thing I wanna speak about is what I've read is we're talking about workforce housing and all this and that and what's been happening throughout the country is uh venture capitalist hedge funds are buying up all these new houses And now cities and states are now putting resolutions and laws in place barring them from buy this because all these hedge funds and their venture capitalists are preventing people from buying these house cheaply enough that we might call workforce housing So this may be something we wanna look into it if we wanna help workforce housing and people will be able to afford houses just watch you know who's able to Uh you know buy and control the housing market So thank you very much again

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Carla Amarjo 2:43:30

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Carla Amarjo Palcoast um I just wanna say that those lots on Furness and Fulton there are houses there on that street um so maybe some of them may be wet but not all of them that you guys own quite a bit um and then they didn't address the duplex lots that I discussed so I would really urge you maybe to go back and look at all the property Like I said it was 68 pages to print Um I think we could do better about finding lots for affordable housing and I know you know Habitat for Humanity Flagler They could do a lot with that So thank you