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Flager Beach Rotary’s Race for the Runways 5K Is On at County Airport, With Strong Covid Safety Guidelines

January 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Roy Sieger, the county airport director and a member of Flagler Beach Rotary, at last year's Race to the Runway event. (Facebook)

The pandemic requires format changes and safety guidelines for everyone’s comfort and safety, participant and volunteer peace of mind and safety being paramount in this 10th Anniversary Race. Participants will also be required to sign a release.

Appeals Court Sides With Hammock Association Against County and Developer on 240-Boat Storage Facility

January 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Hammock Harbour wants to level the old hangar where boats were manufactured, and build a 240-boat storage facility. County government said yes. Two courts so far have said no. (© FlaglerLive)

The Hammock Community Association won another victory today as a district court denied the appeal by a developer of a lower court decision quashing redevelopment of a boat yard into a 240-boat storage facility next to Hammock Hardware on State Road A1A.

Sea Ray Plant Will Reopen as Boston Whaler, Bringing Back 300 to 400 Jobs and Annexing Into Palm Coast

January 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Get ready for that familiar sight again as Boston Whaler will take over its sister Sea Ray's plant, abandoned two and a half years ago. (Rusty Clark)

Capping a whirling six months of major economic-development victories for Palm Coast, and two and a half years after the Sea Ray plant shut down off Colbert Lane, eliminating some 440 high-paying jobs, the plant will reopen very soon under the banner of Boston Whaler, a boat builder owned by Sea Ray’s parent, Brunswick Corp.

Senate Pandemic Preparedness Chairman to Advocates of Covid-Safety Lockdowns: Drop Dead

January 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Danny Burgess, a Zephyrhills Republican, chairs the Select Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Response. (NSF)

Businesses will remain open for the economic well-being of the state even as covid-19 cases continue to surge in Florida, the head of a Senate select committee on the pandemic said this week.

Flagler Unemployment Flat for 4th Month in a Row as Economy Struggles To Regain Pre-Covid Confidence

January 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flagler County’s and Florida’s December unemployment figure reflect continued struggles in an economy dominated by a hospitality industry, including bars and restaurants, that lost yet more jobs as the pandemic ramped up in the state.

Almost 20 Years Later, Construction Begins on The Gardens Along John Anderson, But Lawsuit Looms

January 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Crews have been clearing land on The Gardens project since earlier this month. (© FlaglerLive)

Crews began clearing acreage for The Gardens, a development along John Anderson Highway first proposed under a different name almost 20 years ago, but the controversies and obstacles that have dogged the project since continue, including a lawsuit filed just weeks ago.

AdventHealth Palm Coast Will Build a $100 Million, 100-Bed Hospital on Palm Coast Parkway

January 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A rendering of the planned AdventHealth Palm Coast hospital on Palm Coast Parkway.

In a surprise, AdventHealth officials today announced the system will build a $100 million, 100-bed hospital on the south side of Palm Coast Parkway, adjacent to Market Street, the assisted living facility, with construction starting in September.

Under Threat of Lawsuit and Sharp Public Opposition, Palm Coast Council Rejects Palm Harbor Cell Tower

January 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

There will be no cell tower over the Palm Harbor golf course. (© FlaglerLive)

Ending one of the most furious backlashes against a city initiative in recent years, the Palm Coast City Council voted 5-0 to deny the city’s own contractor a proposed lease to build a 150-foot cell tower in the heart of the city-owned Palm Harbor golf course.

Final 4-1 Vote Clears Lakeview Estates Development in Place of Matanzas Golf Course, With Yet More Restrictions

January 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Residents around the long-disused Matanzas golf course have largely opposed a proposed new development on some of the fairways, though the Palm Coast City Council adopted and expanded on development restrictions imposed by city planners. (© FlaglerLive)

The city’s template for the Matanzas golf course prizes compromise and pragmatism over an all-or-nothing approach–pleasing neither side entirely, but also carving out enough room for reasonable development within ample green bands, and without seriously endangering existing residents’ views. 

As Covid Patient Load Keeps Breaking Records at AdventHealth Palm Coast, ER Director Gives Inside Look

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The daily count of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of Covid-19 at AdventHealth Palm Coast since October, through today. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Covid-19 patient load reaches 35–the hospital is licensed for 113 beds–Dr. Paul Mucciolo, AdventHealth Palm Coast’s ER medical director until last year, and the Chief of Staff since, details the hospital’s response and challenges to a record surge.

Intracoastal Bank Announces 2020 Results

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Total assets at December 31, 2020, were $483.6 million , up $139.3 million, or 40%, from $344.3 million at December 31, 2019. Total deposits at December 31, 2020 were $415 million, up 105.1 million, or 34% from $309.9 million , at December 31, 2019.

Daytona Beach Condo Sales Overcome Worldwide Disruptions in 2020

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Despite the unmistakable economic impacts, ongoing uncertainties, and even a statewide shutdown of business for all non-essential businesses in April, condo sales and prices climbed much higher than expected across Volusia County during 2020.

Covid Vaccine Now Available to 65 and Over at 4 Publix Stores in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

The Publix store in Palm Coast's Town Center is one of four Publix locations where vaccines are being made available, by appointment only. (© FlaglerLive)

Publix Supermarkets is making “a limited number of Covid-19 vaccines” available at four Publix stores in Flagler County starting now. But as has been the case with vaccines offered by local health departments in Flagler and elsewhere, all available vaccine appointments were snapped up as soon as they were made available. 

Big Savings and Unexpected Revenue Allow Palm Coast to Hire 2 More Cops and Restore Raises Despite Covid

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Manager Matt Morton likes his decisions driven by data. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast’s ultra-conservative fiscal management is allowing the city to hire two additional sheriff’s deputies, restore employee raises, and restore the city manager’s own raise, which he had declined last year on the approach of Covid’s era of uncertainty.

FPL Wants to Raise Rates 15% Over Next 4 Years and Raise $2 Billion

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Powering up the rate increases. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida Power & Light customers in Flagler County and elsewhere paying $99 now for 1,000 kilowatts per hour of electricity each month would pay $114 a month in 2025, based on a proposal FPL submitted Monday.

‘Zero Doses’ of Vaccines for Flagler This Week, ‘Few If Any’ Over Next 5 as Covid Surges Amid Warnings of Bleak Months

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There were 398 confirmed new cases in Flagler in the week ending Saturday, by far a new record, with no letup in sight and no vaccines ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is sending what little supply of vaccines it has elsewhere for the next five weeks: The Villages qualify, Flagler does not. So even people due for their second shot may not get it as Flagler County’s Covid numbers surge to their worst levels yet. Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler County Health Department, spoke as if at a wake when he updated government officials this morning, and in many ways it was.

In 1st Loss Since April, Economy Sheds 140,000 Jobs as Pandemic Worsens and Vaccines Lag

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The national economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, the first loss since April. (© FlaglerLive)

After seven months of gains that had recovered more than half the jobs lost in spring, the national economy lost 140,000 jobs in December as the coronavirus pandemic worsened and efforts to contain it failed, with a president largely absent from governance and leadership since before the election.

3-2 Vote Clears 268-Home Development on Matanzas Golf Course, But With Severe Restrictions

January 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The disputed "Tract 3" in the Lakeview Estate development proposal: Palm Coast government opposes development there, saying it would block existing residents' view of the fairway. The developer of Lakeview Estates disagreed. But in the end, the development proposal the city approved excludes development on that particular tract. The drone view was shown during Tuesday evening's hearing. (© FlaglerLive)

The plan the Palm Coast City Council approved strikes at the heart of the proposal, denying the developer authority to develop a key tract and upholding the city administration’s interpretation of protected golf views.

Flagler Auditorium Announces Lineup of Live and Multimedia Shows Celebrating the Community

January 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Flagler Auditorium has been finding its voice despite the pandemic. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Auditorium pays tribute to the vibrant Flagler County community with a special line-up of programs celebrating its history, artists, service organizations, and heroes starting later this month.

Questions Remain About Added Jobless Benefits for Floridians

December 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

That empty feeling. (© FlaglerLive)

Questions remained Wednesday about when extended unemployment benefits from a newly signed federal stimulus package will be available for Floridians out of work because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stimulus Bill Is a Welcome Stopgap, But Not Nearly Enough

December 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

It's going to take a lot more when people are going hungry. (Georgia National Guard)

The Covid-19 relief bill will help, but much more needs to be done to combat the pandemic and make the country stronger in the face of future crises.

Flagler’s Unemployment Rate Ticks Back Up, Florida’s Stalls as Covid’s Effects Take Economic Toll

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler and Florida's economies have stalled since late summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s unemployment rate in November rose slightly to 5.9 percent, from a revised 5.5 percent in October, as Florida’s rate remained unchanged at 6.4 percent, signaling a deepening stall of economic activity since summer’s end as the coronavirus continues to take a human and economic toll in the state: seasonal hiring has not materialized as it has in less diseased years.

At Groundbreaking on $23 Million Sheriff’s Operations Center, County Hopes ‘Difficult’ Years of Errors Are Over

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Ready shovels today on the site of what will become the Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell, south of the Government Services Building complex. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff’s, county, Bunnell and Flagler Beach officials broke ground today on a 51,000-square foot, $23 million Sheriff’s Operations Center on the future Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, possibly ending eight years of costly errors and misjudgments and what will be a four-year exile for the sheriff’s agency from a place of its own.

Palm Coast Council Awards Jacksonville University $2.5 Million to Open Town Center Campus, But Without Unanimity

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Jacksonville University President Tim Cost addressing the Palm Coast City Council this morning.

While the Palm Coast City Council’s majority supported the subsidy with enthusiasm, Council members Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa opposed awarding some or all of the money to the University of Jacksonville for different reasons, a split that did not exist when the council welcomed the University of North Florida with a $1.5 million subsidy.

County Approves $20 Million Loan to Build Sheriff’s Operations Center, With Groundbreaking Wednesday

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Jay Glover, the county's financial adviser, addressing the commission this evening. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

The Flagler County Commission voted 5-0 this evening to approve a $20 million commercial loan with CenterState Bank to finance a 51,000-square-foot Sheriff’s Operations Center south of the Government Services Center in Bunnell.

County Scraps Rent-Free Space for Senior Meals in Flagler Beach to Pay $3,000 a Month, With $1,200 Yearly Increases

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Senior services no more at Wickline in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

County commissioners Monday evening were set to approve a plan that would move the senior meals program from the Wickline Center in Flagler Beach to Church on the Rock in Bunnell and pay the church $3,000 a month in rent the first year, rising by $100 a month per year over the potential 15-year life of the lease, ending a 38-year, rent-free relationship.

Jacksonville University Plans Major Campus Expansion in Palm Coast in City’s 2nd Higher-Ed Partnership

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Jacksonville University opened its campus in 1934. It is planning its first-ever expansion in Palm Coast by next fall. (Facebook)

Jacksonville University and Palm Coast announced a joint partnership that will open a JU campus in town–the university’s first-ever expansion beyond Jacksonville in its 86-year history–and enroll 150 to 200 full-time students within 24 months. The focus will be health-care education, and more specifically, nursing.

Flagler Beach Commission Unanimously Clears a Step Toward Flagler Beach Hotel Construction in Center of Town

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Flagler Beach Hotel around 1950. (Florida Memory)

The vote was unanimous. The discussion–what there was of it–took all of eight minutes. There was no discussion among commissioners, no controversy, and aside from one public voice opposed, no dissent, clearing yet another hurdle for the planned hotel.

Project Share, Flagler Beach Rotary’s Christmas Gift-Giving to 1,000 Children, Needs Your Help in a Difficult Year

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Giving Tree needs your help ensuring that toys and other gifts will brighten children's Christmas this year.

Rotary Club of Flagler Beach Project Share is now in its 22nd year of providing toys, clothing and bicycles to families in need at Christmas. But Covid-19 has impacted just about everything this year, and Project Share’s ability to raise funds for the annual Christmas toy drive is no exception.

Democrats Attack DeSantis Handling of Covid as Unemployment Claims, Cases and Deaths Rise

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Democratic senators renewed pleas for the governor’s office to provide more data about the impact of the virus on the state’s health-care industry and to lift a limitation on the ability of local governments to enforce coronavirus regulations such as mask mandates.

Florida Joins 45 States in Lawsuit Accusing Facebook of Exploiting Its Dominance

December 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The states’ lawsuit, also joined by Guam and the District of Columbia, focuses in part on Facebook’s acquisitions of message-sharing app WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram, transactions the lawsuit alleges were predatory because the apps “each posed a unique and dire threat to Facebook’s monopoly” in the social-networking sphere.

Talk of Stimulus: Cancel All Student Debt

December 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

The Federal Reserve board room at the Marriner S. Eccles building. (Federal Reserve)

Research by the Federal Reserve and the Levy Economics Institute shows that debt cancellation would boost the national economy. Freed up from these financial burdens, former debt holders would have more buying power just when we and they need it most.

Fifth New Cell Tower in 2 Years, at Palm Harbor Golf Club, Draws Less Than Beaming Reception

December 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The year-and-a-half-old cell-tower monopole on Palm Coast Parkway, near Heroes Park. A similar pole is planned for a parcel on the city's Palm Harbor Golf Club.

A new, 150-foot monopole off of 20 Palm Harbor Drive, on the grounds of the city’s golf club, drew a little bit of resistance from a council member and a few residents, though the Palm Coast City Council appears ready to approve construction later this month.

Alcohol To Go With Food Orders Could Become Permanent Allowance After Covid

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Pack it up. (© FlaglerLive)

Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, and Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, separately filed measures that would allow a business holding a state alcohol license to sell or deliver spirited beverages by the package for off-site consumption. The proposals would require the liquid to be in a sealed container and to be part of a food order.

43rd Flagler Resident Dies of Covid; Local Covid Hospitalizations at 15; Fire Chief Out Sick, County Refuses to Say Who’s In Charge

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The number of Covid-related hospitalizations is reaching highs last seen in summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 47 Palm Coast city government employees are currently out either directly or indirectly affected by Covid, but the county is refusing to disclose numbers, or say who’s leading the fire department, whose interim chief, Joe King, has been out with a covid diagnosis.

City Approves Development of Medical Campus that Would Extend Palm Coast Parkway Across U.S. 1

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Back when Palm Coast Parkway was in its infancy, when the west side of what is today the parkway was still called (Flagler County Historical Society)

The 89-acre development may include a hospital, medical offices, laboratories, primary care center, urgent care center, a wellness center, outpatient surgery center, educational facilities, other medical-related uses, and ancillary retail and restaurant uses, according to the development agreement.

Unemployment Payments Are Weeks Late in Florida and in Nearly Every State

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

When Palm Coast organized its food drop in May, Florida was filling only 44 percent of unemployment benefit applications within three weeks, a rate half the required federal standard. In October, it was 57.7 percent, still 30 percent short of the federal standard. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal standard requires 87% of unemployment claims to be met within three weeks of filing. Florida wasn’t ,meeting the standard even before the pandemic, and since spring, saw the standard fall as low as 22 percent. Florida’s dismal record prompted a lawsuit.

Flagler Beach Hotel Replacing Farmers’ Market Gets Key Board’s Approval, With No Public Opposition

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

A rendering of the proposed Flagler Beach hotel at the center of town.

The Flagler Beach Planning Board Tuesday evening voted 7-0 to recommend the plan for a 97-room hotel and town houses adjacent to Veterans Park on land used for a farmers’ market for 30 years. There was. surprisingly, no public opposition. The proposal moves on to the City Commission on Dec. 10.

12-Room Motel and 3-Unit Development, Including 2 Vacation Rentals, Advance in Flagler Beach

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

A rendering of the proposed 12-room motel on State Road A1A, at South 13th Street, in Flagler Beach.

While three tourism-focused proposed developments in Flagler Beach point to a bullish economic future that would help balance the city’s tax base, the spate of high-visibility proposals may also be contributing to a mixture of public unease and antagonism to so much palpable change, much of it in iconic areas.

97-Room Hotel and 10 Town Homes Would Replace Flagler Beach Farmer’s Market Parcel in Heart of the City

November 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 117 Comments

The Flagler Beach Farmers' Market in its heyday, in 2015. A 97-room hotel is proposed for the site along State Road 100, returning the 1.3-acre parcel to its former uses. (© FlaglerLive)

A South Florida architect and resort developer is proposing to build a 97-room resort and 10 walk-up town houses for short-term renters in Flagler Beach on the rectangular vacant acreage in the heart of city best known for its weekend farmers’ market, which has not been active in the past year. The resort, 35 feet tall at its height, would vastly change the complexion and skyline of downtown, though it would also be a return to form of sorts.

Florida (and Flagler) Can Thank ‘Luck’ as Most Active Hurricane Season on Record Ends Monday

November 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The more sterious storms stayed away from Flagler County and its fragile shoreline this year. (© FlaglerLive)

In a season that overlapped the coronavirus pandemic, most storms spun away from Florida, sparing communities double-barreled crises of responding to a major storm while contending with restrictions and safety concerns imposed by the coronavirus.

Audrey II Puts Bite in City Rep’s “Little Shop of Horrors,” Opening Outdoors on Thanksgiving Weekend

November 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Alexander Loucks comes under the spell of the bloodthirsty plant Audrey II in the City Repertory Theatre production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” (© FlaglerLive)

“Little Shop of Horrors” is City Repertory Theatre’s most expensive production in 10 years, and is intended in part to give theater-goers a break from pandemic fatigue even as the show easily invites allegorical leaps to the present-day.

Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.

November 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

As Covid-19 cases skyrocket, political leaders have struggled to balance concerns about individual freedom and harm to the economy with the imperative of curbing the virus’s spread. (Alliance for Excellent Education)

Eleven states let school districts decide whether students and staff must wear masks. One Georgia middle school where masks were optional–only about half of the children wore them–became the center of an outbreak.

Powered by Vacation Rentals, Flagler’s Tourism Revenue Is Up Significantly as State’s Drops 30%

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County’s tourism-tax revenue has gone up three successive months between July and September, substantially so in August and September, in contrast with statewide tourism revenue, which plummeted 30 percent in the third quarter. Vacation rentals, the beach, and vacationers traveling shorter distances account for the county’s success.

Disney Springs May Be Accessible By Train by 2022

November 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Disney Springs may finally be accessible by rail. (© FlaglerLive)

The private passenger-rail service Brightline announced an agreement Monday with Walt Disney World to build a station at Disney Springs as part of expansion plans from South Florida to Central Florida.

Recovery Stalls in Flagler and Volusia as Job Gains Slow, Consumer Confidence Drops and Covid Cases Surge

November 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A note announcing Farley's permanent closure at European Village in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s unemployment rate in October was 5.7 percent, down a statistically insignificant decimal point from the previous month, and consumer confidence statewide again dropped in a reflection of the sharply worsening covid pandemic locally and statewide.

How the ‘Massive’ Rollout of the Covid Vaccine Will Happen in Phases in Flagler and Palm Coast This Spring

November 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Flagler County Health Department Chief Bob Snyder, an eternal optimist. (© FlaglerLive)

Health care workers and first responders will get the vaccine first, followed by residents at large. The health department will use the same infrastructure it uses for Covid-19 testing, but on a more massive scale–assuming the more than 112,000 doses needed to approach herd immunity in Flagler are available by spring.

Finally Confronting Warming, Florida Lawmakers Set to Address Rising Seas and Flooding Systematically

November 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A flooded property in the Hammock in 2016, in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, whose effects were limited to tropical storm conditions onshore. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida lawmakers’ new perspectives and readiness to more directly tackle the crisis represented a further evolution in the position of Florida Republicans about climate change. But environmentalists said the GOP leaders are not going far enough.

Heralding ‘Big Change,’ County Approves Gardens Development on John Anderson With Few Conditions

November 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Flagler Beach City Attorney Drew Smith (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission at a minute after 11 p.m. Monday approved The Gardens development of 335 homes on the east side of John Anderson Highway in a 3-2 vote, with few conditions, possibly ending the developer’s nearly two-year, three-front battle with county regulators, Flagler Beach government and a community organization that had opposed the proposal. But opponents hinted at litigation several times. 

Judge Denies County’s Motion to Dismiss Captain’s BBQ Suit But Cracks Open a Way to Get There

November 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Circuit Judge Perkins in court today. He denied Flagler County government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against it by Captain's BBQ, the restaurant at Bing's Landing. (© FlaglerLive)

While all but ridiculing the county’s claim that it had broken the law by approving a lease amendment with Captain’s BBQ without putting it out to bid, Circuit Judge Perkins was far more receptive to the county’s claim that the amendment had not yet kicked in, and so could not have been breached. He all but drew a map for the county’s next attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, pending the taking of depositions.

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