- April 24, 2024
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Dear Editor:
As a homeowner in Palm Coast, I have a complaint about daily dog walkers that walk their dogs and do not pick up after their dogs defecate.
Earlier this year, I notified Ms. Barbara Grossman at the Palm Coast city offices several times and was told that letters would go out to the dog owners in question. (I provided a list of addresses for these individuals.)
The same people are walking their dogs in the area of Bird of Paradise and Biscayne Drive. We can see them stopping in front of homes and on the median and not picking up the waste from their dogs.
Isn’t there an ordinance in this city? Shouldn’t these individuals be fined for continuing to break the law? Do I also need to provide pictures to the city as evidence?
Florence Hallahan
Palm Coast
Dear Editor:
As a former member and supporter of the Home Rule Coalition to make Palm Coast an incorporated city, I watched with pride the opening of our new City Hall.
However, it did bring me back to 1999, when Mayor John Masiarczyk, of Deltona, walked into our service district meeting in the Community Center to show us the furniture of newly incorporated Deltona City Hall, which was then a room on the second floor of the Deltona library. Mayor Masiarczyk and his team carried in a bridge table, a folding chair and a cardboard box with the totality of his city's documents. He was there to prove that incorporation need not be complex.
Since 1999, both Palm Coast and Deltona grew tremendously, and our expanded city administration and city halls reflect that. Anyone who remembers when we were a service district of the county also remembers having to beg for what we deserved as the largest entity in Flagler County.
Yes, incorporation is, in fact, complex, as is growing up in life. Would I support incorporation now as I did in 1999? The answer is clear: You can see me still walking around with the T-shirt that says, “For The City Of Palm Coast, Vote YES September 14.”
Arnie Levine
Palm Coast
