There, land and preconstruction homes were marketed starting at $13,000. “They were taken by boat to the emerging Welcome Center. “Prospective buyers were driven to a small dock on the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway across from the present day Palm Coast Resort,” Dycke wrote in a 2015 edition of The Palm Coast Historian, published by the Palm Coast Historical Society. In an ad on the Flagler Beach pier, ITT Levitt offered boat tours of the nascent community of Palm Coast. would bring prospective buyers in by boat to look at homesites, according to an article by Palm Coast City Historian Art Dycke. Saltwater canals were one of Palm Coast’s original amenities.Īround 1970, three decades before the city incorporated, ITT Levitt Development Corp. “… We’re all in this together, and it’s a huge amenity.”Īt his suggestion, the city has placed on this year’s National Citizen Survey a question asking respondents if they believe the city should hire a consulting firm to see what dredging would cost. “It’s part of our city, like anything in our city,” Danko had said at an Oct. Palm Coast City Councilman Ed Danko thinks it’s time. But it hasn’t done much to maintain those waterways, aside from fixing the occasional sagging seawall or removing debris.Īnd now the city faces a question: The canals have never been dredged, not since they were dug as dry ditches and an earthen plug was removed to let them fill with seawater. Palm Coast has long touted the canal system as an attraction: Palm Coast’s first welcome center was on the canal system now an overhead shot of the canal network forms the background for the city’s new website. Palm Coast’s network of tidal canals link locals’ backyard boat docks and lifts to the Intracoastal Waterway from there, it’s an easy shot for a motorboat to get to open water through the Matanzas Inlet. DAN BRYANT, Palm Coast resident and sailboat owner But if we start to do it like we’re building the Panama Canal, we might be making a false step." "I think there are probably a lot of cost effective ways to do this. For decades, that saltwater has enticed people to settle here. Although Palm Coast doesn’t have a beach - the nearest are in Flagler Beach, Marineland and unincorporated Flagler County - it does have saltwater, lots of it, in the city’s canal system.
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