County Road 205 between Espanola and State Road 100 is one of the more rustic roads in the county. It is also one of its most asphalt-challenged, and narrowest. Flagler County government will be fixing that.
The County Commission on Monday approved a $3.2 million grant agreement with the state Department of Transportation, with an additional $868,000 required from the local government, to widen and repave the 1.9-mile stretch of 205 from SR100 to a dirt road just west of Espanola. CR 205 connects with County Road 13, which leads to U.S. 1.
The project must be completed by the end of February 2027 to stay in compliance with the grant.
“Proposed improvements will involve milling and resurfacing the existing roadway, paving shoulders, installation of guardrails (at the intersection with SR100), drainage improvements including box culvert extension, culvert installation, striping and signage,” a county memo states.
The DOT had previously appropriated $1.9 million for the project. There have been cost increases. “However the final cost of the project will not be determined until it is put out to bid,” the memo states. The current estimate is that it will cost $4 million. The county has appropriated only $500,000 of the needed local share. The administration will bring back the item to the commission at the time of the bid award to determine how to make up a shortfall, if there is any. The state’s share may be increased or decreased based on the final bid amount.
The road is used by trucks that travel in and out of a sand quarry along 205, by the Espanola community, and by drivers taking the shortcut between US1 and SR100, bypassing Bunnell. One of its two L-shaped stretches is so straight that it was used as an emergency landing strip by a Sunrise Aviation Flight School student whose single-engine Cessna developed problems.
The County Commission on Monday approved the grant unanimously as part of its consent agenda, the portion of the agenda that includes numerous routine items that are approved in bulk with one vote, unless a commissioner or a member of the public deems an item worthy of further examination or discussion. No one requested further discussion regarding the road grant.
T says
What a bout Palm coast roads potholes,cracks, sections are sinking
Doug says
It’s not a county issue. Palm Coast is its own city with a tax base. Complain to them, and good luck.
Retired says
What about Daytona North that was all suposed to be paved by now. Make a dirt road that is mostly used by dump trucks nice so they can speed on it. I think the current limit is 25 mph.
FedUpwithFlaglerCounty says
What about me? What about me? What about me? Lol.
JimboXYZ says
Widening probably has to happen, more because Bunnell approved 6+K new residential to handle that growth. I don’t know so much that guard rails enhance anything that improve ? I mean look at I-95 that runs North to South. This is just a wider highway like road there ? Doesn’t have to be anything more than paved ? Where Bunnell has approved the new residential is on FL 11 both W & SW of US-1. Wanna see Bunnell growth in action ? Head over to US-1 & Belle Terre. The forest alongside US-1 has been cleared to dirt, piles of pine trees laying around. Maybe future plans to grow that CR 205 are in the works ? As usual the rest of us continue to pick up the tab for a Vision of 2050 nobody ever wanted. And we can add more STF’s for that in future too, only because the Alfin-like cancer of growth that never paid for any of that. These are roads so many of us had to Google Map to know ever existed even, unused. We end up paying for future residents that don’t live there, haven’t paid taxes into the system and will show up at some point in the future.
Lance Carroll says
Evidently, Mr. Jimbo…you have not exercised your right to drive along CR205. If you did, you were not paying attention to the road.
Sincerely,
Lance Carroll
JimboXYZ says
Been out on the road a few times, enough to know that there isn’t much for development on it. It’s like most any other rural traveled road in FL, impatient motorists that live out in the middle of nowhere that if they aren’t wrecking into each other they’re hitting some species of wild life in a pickup truck or a muscle car. FL 11 & also SR 100 West of US-1 is the same impatient motorist trap. It’s more a struggle for anyone to resist pulling the impatiently stupid multi-car pass because the speed limit is 5 mph slower than the impatient motorist thinks it ought to be ? And when a dump truck or larger gets in front of those types of motorists ? They’re going to speed & multi-vehicle pass at the every opportunity, just in their DNA that way.
Erod says
This usually means another developer has his eyes on property.
in my one lane traveling along old kings at thirty five mph with forty thousand others says
Awesome sauce! The 10-20 drivers who use that road per hour will LOVE this news! Way to spend that county tax payer money to benefit the good of many. Standing ovation, honestly!
Lance Carroll says
Go for a drive along CR 205 and you will encounter well beyond 10-20 drivers…
Sincerely,
Lance Carroll