- November 7, 2024
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When cities undertake road projects to change the number of lanes on a street, that usually means an expansion.
But for Palm Coast’s Citation Parkway — a 0.4-mile roadway stretching between Seminole Woods Boulevard and Sesame Boulevard — the city government is planning to do the opposite, and remove two of the road’s four lanes.
The change will let the city construct a multi-use path alongside the road, eliminate the stop light at the intersection of Sesame Boulevard and Citation Parkway, replace an ailing bridge on Sesame Boulevard and give city staff and Florida Power & Light workers access to city property.
Palm Coast City Councilman Steven Nobile finds the city administration’s vision statement — “To be recognized as one of Florida’s premier cities in which to live, work and play” — not evocative enough.
“Our vision statement says that it doesn’t matter what we do as long as we do it well, and generally that’s what it’s saying: ‘We want to be a premier city, so whatever we do, we want to be the best at,’” Nobile said at a City Council workshop Jan. 10. “That’s more of a mission, not a vision. ... Vision is where do you want to be. … Where do we see ourselves in the long end.”
Nobile’s comments came as City Administration Coordinator Denise Bevan presented the council with an update on the city’s 2017 Strategic Action Plan and budget process.
Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland said she felt the Strategic Action Plan’s timeline could move faster. “We’re all new, and I think this is a new day, a new opportunity,” she said.
Both Nobile and Holland praised the mechanisms the city has included in the Strategic Action Plan to set goals and objectives on various issues and work toward achieving them.
