Flagler Beach City magistrate orders repairs, sets cure deadlines and reduces two parking fines

FLAGLER BEACH CITY — The Special Magistrate hearing on Jan. 28 addressed a batch of code-enforcement cases ranging from parking-on-sidewalk citations to building maintenance and business-license delinquencies, producing denials, reduced penalties and multiple deadlines to cure violations.

Special Magistrate Gregory Pompa opened the session and took roll call, with Drew Smith (city attorney), John Gifford (code enforcement) and Michelle Figucello (clerk to the magistrate) recorded on the docket. The meeting produced several on-the-spot rulings and scheduling decisions but no new policy changes.

The most immediate enforcement actions included: the denial of one sidewalk-parking appeal, reduced monetary penalties in two other parking cases in exchange for community service or reduced fines, findings of violation and cure deadlines for property maintenance problems, and orders to obtain or display Local Business Tax Receipts for several businesses.

Denied appeal, safety rationale Magistrate Pompa heard an in-person appeal from a respondent identified in the record as "Dmitry Dreypich," who later stated his name as "Dimitri Alex DePreche." The respondent argued photos and adjacent construction made the parking area unclear. Pompa pressed on pedestrian safety, asking rhetorically how a wheelchair user or someone with a stroller would navigate…