- February 1, 2025
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Dear Editor:
Regarding the Letter to the Editor, “Let People Decide” (Jan. 30) remarking on the mayor’s and City Council’s decision-making on the house paint and commercial vehicle issue: Their suggestion to the mayor, made in person, “if he wanted to settle those issues let the people vote on it.”
We have a representative government in Palm Coast. Didn’t we just vote on it last November? And didn’t that election put people in office to make these decisions for us? And didn’t we (allegedly) choose the winners by majority vote depending on how we approved of their policy statements?
I don’t think we need to change to put every decision the mayor and City Council make to a public vote. How soon would voter fatigue set in and render that process dead, and then why would we need a mayor and city council?
Warren Mudd
Palm Coast
Dear Editor:
I wonder how many folks looking to move to Palm Coast, viewed now as one of the most desirable places to retire and buy a home, will be so put off and disappointed and head elsewhere because they actually wanted a neighborhood of brightly colored painted homes and commercial vehicles parked in residential driveways plastered with advertising signs?
Or would they be savvy enough to understand that a "do as you want" freewheeling approach to how a neighborhood looks can drag down property values? Will these prospective buyers be fearful that their next-door neighbors could opt for some unseemly house color palette and park their equally colorful and possibly dirty commercial vehicle with signage on it that could be advertising anything from pizza to an adult toy store?
Would they be deterred from buying here when the local mayor supports radically changing the aesthetics of Palm Coast with that do what you want philosophy? Very possibly. I for one am fearful as to what Palm Coast laws, rules and regulations, or lack thereof, this new mayor has in store for the rest of us folks!
Margaret Minutaglio
Palm Coast
Dear Editor:
I am 100% against a change in the restrictions in our beautiful city. Those very restrictions are why my husband and I built our house here. We toured the entire state, north, south, east and west, and decided this was the place to retire.
Rosemarie Klein
Palm Coast
