City of Palm Coast Schedules Public Hearing for Palm Coast Parkway 6-Laning
Widening will extend 1.23 miles from Cypress Point Pkwy/Boulder Rock Drive to Florida Park Drive
Palm Coast, FL – March 5, 2010 – The City of Palm Coast, in cooperation with the Florida Department of Transportation District #5, has scheduled a public hearing regarding the proposed improvements to Palm Coast Parkway from Cypress Point Parkway/Boulder Rock Drive to Florida Park Drive, a distance of approximately 1.23 miles.
The hearing will begin as an open house on Tuesday, March 16h at 6:00 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Pkwy NE. A formal presentation will follow at 7:00 p.m. Immediately following the formal presentation, officials will open the meeting for public comment. The hearing is being held to allow interested persons an opportunity to express their views concerning the location, conceptual design and social, economic and environmental effects of the proposed improvements to Palm Coast Parkway. The proposed improvements consist of widening the roadway from a four-lane to a six-lane divided facility with shared-use paths on both sides and improvements at the intersections at Cypress Point Parkway and Old Kings Road. Minimal additional right-of-way may be required. The project is scheduled to begin in 2012.
The Draft Project Development Summary Report (PDSR) and environmental documents, along with other pertinent information, will be available for public review during normal business hours at the City of Palm Coast offices located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway. These materials will also be available at the hearing site from 6:00 p.m. until the end of the meeting/hearing.
Persons desiring to submit written statements and other exhibits, in place of or in addition to oral statements, may do so at the hearing or by sending them to the City of Palm Coast, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite #B106, Palm Coast Florida, 32164. All exhibits or statements postmarked no later than March 26th will become a part of the public hearing record.
Public participation is solicited without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability or family status. Persons with disabilities who require special accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act or persons who require translation services (free of charge) should contact Marsha Lidskin, Community Relations Coordinator for the City of Palm Coast at 386-986-3708 at least seven days prior to the hearing. For all other inquiries, please contact Michael Esposito, Project Coordinator for the City of Palm Coast at 386-986-2461.
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Road Widening
Haven’t we suffered enough with their incessant "improvements." Enough already!
no way
palm coast parkway will be bigger than Rt95. does anyone see a problem with that?
Palm Coast is growing, so we need to be smart abou
We should definitely have widened the pc pkwy a long time ago. When I go to work in the am and take I-95, going westbound over the highway on PC Pkwy is always backed up, so obviously it needs to be widened because I don’t think the traffic will lessen in the future. And 3 lanes each direction would not make it wider than I-95, so get your facts straight "old palm coast" because, we need this for the future and Palm Coast. The town will never be the "old Palm Coast" and small town it was in the past, so deal with it and allow our beautiful city to grow in smart ways or just leave. Keeping an already congested road the same will not help the problem obviously, so widening it is out best and only option, and will improve the quality of driving, and reduce traffic, their for improving the quality of life, so I am all for it.
Brigadeer General Jose Hernandezs St. Josephs Plan
Local historian John Clegg “The History of Flagler County” reported that a number of Spanish grants were purchased by Joseph M. Hernandez whose plantations called St. Joseph, Bella Vista and Mala Compra (that translates as ‘bad purchase’ in Spanish) figure strongly in Flagler County’s history. St. Joseph Plantation had a sugar mill which was near a prior St. Joseph Mission, a Indian mission run by the Francisican Friars. Mr. Clegg said the foundation of the sugar mill existed until the time of the Palm Coast development. Today there is “St. Joseph Plaza” near the traffic heavy paved section of Old Kings Road.
The sugar mill was reported to be in the area of 45 Florida Park Drive today near Old Kings Road. A record of the research to locate this Mission is located at the Flagler Beach Museum.
Mala Compra today exists within a Flagler County Park near A1A and was explored and relics
shown in a library display. Some relics also exist in the Flagler Beach Museum.
————–>It can be said that the streaming auto traffic that now passes Palm Coast Parkway and Old
Kings Road is also intersecting near one of the most historic areas in Flagler County., 1. ———————
Major plantation locations included Mala Compra, St. Joseph, New Hartford, Bulow, Dunlawton, Putnam, Addison, Bunch, Oswald and Smyrna. There were also a multitude of smaller holdings along the route. Many of the Spanish land grants, which extended from St. Augustine to New Smyrna used Old Kings road as a reference point, it was sometimes called “public road.” These grants indicated that Old Kings Road pretty much followed the original British tract.
National Heritage Area , Palm Coast, etc.
National Heritage Area (parts of Palm Coast / Flagler County / St. Johns County)
‘…Stakeholders receive help to achieve their own goals for resource enhancement, conservation, and promotion…’
‘…Through the National Park Service, up to $10 million in 50-percent match funding is available to a National Heritage Area over a period of 15 years
For every $1 of federal match funding, the existing National Heritage Areas have leveraged an average of $9 in other funding. Portions of this funding direct, indirect and induced–goes to local businesses.
Sustainable management of heritage tourism and nature tourism brings long-term economic benefits to designated regions while protecting cultural and natural resources….’
National Heritage Area Working Group: Volunteers, Stakeholders, and Scholars:
NHA Working Group: Volunteers, Stakeholders and Scholars
American Assoc. of University Women/Flagler County; Anchor Light, Inc.; Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve; GTM National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Advisory Group; Flagler County; Flagler County Historical Society; Flagler Beach Historical Museum, Inc.; Florida Agricultural Museum; Florida Depart. of State / Division of Historic Resources; Florida Heritage Book Festival; Florida National Guard, Florida Sea Grant; Friends of A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway; Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area; Heritage Crossroads; Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program; National Park Service; City of Flagler Beach; City of Palm Coast; Town of Marineland; Ponte Vedra Chamber of Commerce; Slow Food First Coast; St. Augustine Archaeological Association; St. Augustine Attractions Association; St. Augustine Historical Society; St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, Inc.; St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District; St. Augustine Yacht Club; St. Johns County; St. Johns County Board of Realtors; St. Johns County/St. Augustine Builders Assoc.; City of St. Augustine Beach; City of St. Augustine; St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce; St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce Historic St. Augustine Area Council; St. Johns River Water Management District; University of Florida; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Matt Armstrong; Denise Bevan; Kristee Booth; Robin Burchfield; Olivia Bush; William Butler; Tom Bledsoe; Troy Blevins; Curt Bowman; Elyse Brady; Jan Brewer; Keith Brown; Brendan Burke; Marsha Chance; Carrianne Churmblo; Krissie Cleary; Martin Cleary; Mary Ann Clark; Michael Cunningham; Dr. Kathleen Deagan; Andy DeLorenzo; Kathy Dvornick; Art Dycke; Beau Falgout; Kathy Fleming; George Gardner; Kathryn Getz; Mark Giblin; Dr. Thomas Graham; Dr. Patricia Griffin; Carl Halbirt; Glenn Hastings; Paul Haydt; Marty Healy; George Hanns; Peggy Heiser; Milissa Holland; Jay Humphreys; Roy Jaeger; Pat Jaeger; Frances Keiser; Hugh Keiser; Barb Kelly; Judith Kent; Leslee Keys; Monica Rowland Kile; Linda Krepp; James E. “Ed” Long; Hester Longstreet; Ryan Mauch; Dr. Maia McGuire; Phil McDaniel; Amy Gilboy Meide; Chuck Meide; Mollie Malloy; Sacha Martin; Marcella Matthaei; Jane Mealy; Greg Moore; Robin Moore; Caryn Miller; J.B. Miller; Sarah Miller; Christine Newman; Sallie O’Hara; Walter O’Kon; Jose Papa; Dr. Susan Parker; Sandra Parks; Beau Phillips; Bruce Piatek; Fred Pirkle; Teri Pruden; John Regan; Vickie Renna; Tom Rivers; Barbara Roberts; Max Royle; Nancy Russell; Bill Ryan; Nancy Sachs; Andrea Samuels; Bob Samuels; John Seibel; Herschel Shepard; Melissa Sheets; Lenora Silver; Mike Shirley; Paula Sisson; Wil Smith; Dana Ste. Claire; Patsy Stephens; Karen Strandhagen; Lea Stokes; Tim Telfer; Dr. Sam Turner; Ray Tyner; Richard Villadoniga; Leslie White; Catherine Wilson, Michael Wilson; Charles Wolfe; Marilyn Wiles; David Wiles; Oel Wingo; Chrystal Yates; Shelly Young; Janet Zimmerman
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