- May 3, 2024
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Thanks to city officials who make Palm Coast beautiful
Dear Editor:
This letter is in response to the letter entitled, “New City Hall would not change workers’ productivity,” published July 10. The author seems all too typical of the hand-ringing, teeth-gnashing anti-progress complainers who decry any money spent by this city to make it more beautiful, more liveable and more efficient.
First, the proposed City Hall, which the author is clearly against on the basis that a paycheck, any paycheck, is reward enough for top employee performance. Mud huts? How 18th-century! Any purposeful leader of people in a business environment knows that fair pay is only one basic element of a high-performance organization. Other key elements are proper tools and training, a clean, efficient work environment and enlightened leadership.
Next, the author seems to complain about the growth of our city, and in particular, the beautification of Belle Terre Parkway. My guess is that he lives on the east side of Palm Coast and any money not spent in front of his house is money ill spent. Well, we west-siders love the landscaping our city has doing on Belle Terre, Pine Lakes, Palm Coast and other major city roadways. Every year this city gets more beautiful and more inviting for residents, visitors and prospective business investors. Kudos to our city’s professional landscape architect.
And finally, to the anti-red light camera crowd, (not the same author): Quit complaining, obey the law and you won’t get a ticket. I welcome the cameras in the hope that major accidents caused by red light runners will be reduced.
The complaint by many contributors to the Palm Coast Observer that the cameras target “honest, law-biding citizens” is ludicrous. If you get a ticket, you ran the red light and you are a scofflaw! And if the city collects fines that offset other city costs, great. Your inability to stop at clearly visible red lights keeps my taxes down. Keep those cameras clicking!
Mike Cocchiola
Palm Coast
Slow down, folks; life is short enough as it is
Dear Editor:
I have been an advocate of the red light cameras — even if my wife and neighbor got caught, they both deserved it. Today I saw why the need.
On Palm Coast Parkway going west at the Interstate-95 off-ramp, a vehicle blatantly ran the red light and almost got hit by the car coming off I-95, only to be stopped at the next light, Boulder Rock, because someone obviously ran a red light.
One vehicle was facing west and the other east. Not sure who was at fault, but I am sure the camera will tell us.
Then on my street, Farmsworth Drive, where I have been complaining about the excessive speed of the drivers, there was a young lady and her children following another vehicle who was doing the posted 30 mph limit, and while riding the bumper of the car in front of her, she was yelling out her window for the person to step on it. She was screaming this so that I was able to hear it all the way down our street.
Good example for her children. This is why we need the cameras. Slow down, folks. Life is to short as it is.
Ken Gistedt
Palm Coast
Use the names of the neighborhoods; drop the ‘C-section’
Dear Editor:
My wife and I moved to Palm Coast in 2003. Over the years, we have constantly heard the neighborhoods referred to by a letter designation, i.e. L-section, B-section, W-section, etc. As we all know, each neighborhood has a name displayed on the signs approaching each area: Pine Lakes, Cypress Knolls, Palm Harbor, Matanzas Woods and others.
Isn't it time we used the name instead of a letter, which sounds more like a prison cell block (E-section) or a surgical procedure (C-section)?
Don Lundgren
Palm Coast
