According to the Palm Coast Observer edition 10 from years ago this week ...
- Palm Coast's City Council had voted 4-1 to require residents to get a permit to hold garage sales. The ordinance limited people to two sales per year. People objected to the new policy in letters to the editor, and then more people wrote letters about their objections to the original letters.
- Palm Coast’s planning board voted unanimously to approve developer Jim Cullis’ proposed Grand Living assisted living facility in the Woodlands. Many residents who spoke at the planning board meeting did not support the new facility, saying it should be built in Town Center instead.
- The School Board committed to keeping its middle school sex education curriculum abstinence-only in order to maintain eligibility for a three-year, $150,000-per-year Florida Department of Health grant which required that the curriculum was one of four options, each of which were abstinence-only.
- The Palm Coast City Council and Flagler County Commission were at odds on the question of red light cameras, with the city planning to add more, and the County Commission deciding to draft a letter asking the city to stop. Palm Coast's red light cameras are no longer being used for traffic enforcement: The city ended its agreement with ATS, which ran the cameras, in 2017.
- The Tourist Development Council created a marketing plan that included a rebrand, marketing the county as "Palm Coast and the Flagler Beaches." The plan passed the TDC 3-2, and the rebrand led to some criticism, in part because Palm Coast doesn't technically have any beaches. But the name was a compromise designed to include "Palm Coast" in the title while also including the word "beaches" in the title, since visitor research showed that most visitors wanted to go to the beach.
