- November 19, 2024
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Palm Coast Mayor Jon Netts has met with L-section residents, and one thing's for sure, he says: They want a golf course. But how they might get one still remains to be seen.
The Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday talked about the future of the Matanzas Woods Golf Course, which is owned by The Golf Group. (The Golf Group also owns the Cypress Knoll and Pine Lakes courses.)
“(Residents) don’t want to see a high-rise or a city park,” Netts said. “They want to see a golf course.”
Netts did say it’s not a city issue “until somebody brings something before the City Council for rezoning or some such thing.”
A few years ago, the plan was to renovate and reopen Matanzas Woods, but those plans never panned out. The course still sits overgrown and vacant in the L-section of Palm Coast.
Last month, developer Jim Cullis canceled plans to purchase the course, citing difference of opinion from neighbors in the area.
Some residents said earlier this month that they want to have say in what happens with the course.
One resident, Stu Einhorn, is beginning to explore a way to reopen the course in phases. A neighborhood meeting was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Flagler County Public Library, to discuss the issue. The meeting was expected to last about an hour.
More (digital) storage, please
When city staff met with design officials for the new Palm Coast City Hall recently, the officials were asked to be shown the current storage room the city uses to store documents and files.
As a city government, emails, texts messages, documents and other things are required to be kept.
And so, City Manager Jim Landon took them to a room. But instead of filing cabinets and manila folders everywhere, there were hard drives and servers.
The City Council on Tuesday heard a presentation that will upgrade the city’s Storage Area Netowrk — or SAN — with a contract that will save the city about $3,000 over the three-year lease agreement. The new contract is with Dell.
The city is doubling its digital storage capacity from 30 terabytes to 60 terabytes.
