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Residents press Palm Coast council on drainage, utilities and moratorium as development continues
Summary
Several residents at Thursday's special Palm Coast City Council meeting raised flooding and drainage concerns after recent development near private homes, questioned stormwater upgrades and urged continuation of a building moratorium. Speakers cited a $620 million utilities estimate for needed upgrades and urged the council to slow new housing.
Residents used the public-comment portion of the Palm Coast City Council’s special meeting Thursday to press elected officials on drainage problems, recent approvals for infill development and the city’s capacity to support new housing.
A resident who said an approved infill home next to her property had been built 30 inches higher and without drainage mitigation told the council she measured the canal outfall and found a 36-inch pipe where the city had said upgrades were to 42 inches. “That means the upgrade is incomplete and the system is still bottlenecked at the most important point,” she said, urging the council to fix the outfall and the permit…
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