- March 6, 2025
For the last two months, the red light camera located at State Road 100 (westbound) and Memorial Medical Parkway has had the most violations.
This week, spanning April 8 to April 14, there were 771 violation events. However, there were just 14 citations issued, something that had city officials questioning the efficiency of the camera location.
This particular camera location has led the violation events for eight consecutive weeks.
During Tuesday’s City Council workshop, City Councilman Jason DeLorenzo said the city is planning to bring it to the attention of the Florida Department of Transportation.
Officials hope to add a dedicated green turn arrow on westbound State Road 100, turning right into Florida Hospital Flagler, on Memorial Medical Parkway.
According to City Manager Jim Landon, Florida law states that if a driver slows down and is safe enough, they are not required to completely stop when turning right. However, city rule states that the driver must be traveling 12 mph or slower.
“The camera still sees that the driver is not stopped, but most of the (violations) gets rejected,” Landon said.
The camera location has averaged about 716 violation events each week over the last eight weeks.
City takes next step on zero liquid discharge
The City Council on Tuesday moved forward with the construction of a zero-liquid discharge facility at Water Treatment Plant 2.
The reason the plant is changing from being a membrane softening water treatment plant is because of a May 2008 notification from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, stating the city was not permitted to dispose of the concentrate.
The new zero-liquid-discharge process will be integrated into the existing water treatment plant and will operate as one facility, officials said.
The project, which will be completed by Wharton-Smith Construction, will be completed in two phases.
The first phase will be pre-construction services and cost $100,000. The second phase, which will be construction, will cost about $9.442 million. The project is expected to be completed by September 2014.
The new facility will increase the city’s capacity by about 1.2 million gallons per day.
New soccer league a go?
Soccer officials stopped by the City Council workshop to present the plans for the public/private agreement between the city of Palm Coast and Players Development Academy of Florida Inc., a New Jersey-based soccer club.
The agreement would allow PDA to build up to six soccer fields on a parcel of land that is currently under the Palm Coast Park Development of Regional Impact, located off U.S. 1, between Palm Coast and Matanzas Woods parkways.
Officials said the piece of land is currently in the process of being deeded over to the city. Also, the zoning for the land, which currently is a cow pasture, is recreational.
The lease term is for 25 years with options for five-year extensions. The lease payment would be $10,000 per year, but the city would waive the annual lease payment if PDA hosts two significant special events per year.
PDA would pay for all of the construction, maintenance and ancillary facilities, according to the agreement.
The City Council appeared in favor of the project and will take a formal vote at the May 7 regular meeting.
