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ICI Homes’ Latest Expansion at Plantation Bay Approved, 3-2, But Not Before a Drubbing Over Stinginess

November 5, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Flagler County Commissioner Dave Sullivan was critical of ICI Homes, developer of Plantation Bay, at a commission meeting Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Dave Sullivan said ICI Homes is not doing enough to share in the county’s burdens of repairing Plantation Bay’s troubled water and sewer utilities. The commission approved a 132-home phase of the development.

In Plantation Bay, 1,600 Customers Are Stuck Between Cruddy Water and Cruddier Bills

October 2, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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As Flagler government fully acquires the Plantation bay utility from Bunnell, residents have seen water bills more than double, and may see further rate increases yet if the shoddy water plant is to be improved.

After Thrasher Fracas, Florida Board Rethinks How Universities Search for Presidents

June 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Sen. John Thrasher’s desire for the Florida State University presidency was said to be keeping other potential applicants from putting their name forward for the position while damaging FSU’s reputation.

“So Happy You Guys Have Come Along,” Plantation Bay Residents Tell County and Bunnell

March 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

If questions lingered over Flagler County’s and Bunnell’s expensive and controversial acquisition of the Plantation bay utility, Plantation Bay residents dispelled them Thursday by enthusiastically giving their endorsement to the deal, though county and city commissioners are still facing questions from constituents beyond the development.

County and Bunnell Buy Plantation Bay Utility for $5.5 Million in Hurried Late-Night Deal

February 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

The two governments late Wednesday evening jointly voted to buy the troubled Plantation Bay utility, a wreckage of a 28-year-old water and sewer system serving about 1,600 customers, most of them in Volusia County, plunging Flagler County in the utility business.

Questions and Costs Abound as Flagler Moves to Acquire Troubled Plantation Bay Utility

January 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

As Flagler County government sees it, the Plantation Bay water and sewer plant would help it control the direction of growth and generate revenue, but rate-payers would see cost increases.

Flagler County commissioners had more questions than answers even as they approved going ahead with a $5 million acquisition of the deteriorated Plantation Bay water and sewer plant, and throwing the county, in a hazy partnership with Bunnell, in the utility business for the first time.

ICI Homes Gets Its Way, Mostly, in Cypress Knoll Development as Palm Coast Settles Suit

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Mori Hosseini’s ICI Homes has been battling Palm Coast since 2004 over a zoning designation in the E Section that ICI claims denied it its development rights. The deal means 58 homes on lots smaller than the norm in Cypress Knoll can now be built there.

Palm Coast Council Rejects Latest Cypress Knoll Development Proposal

February 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The proposal, rejected 4-2 by the Planning Board, is part of a settlement of a long-running dispute between developer ICI and Palm Coast, would have allowed up to 60 homes west of East Hampton and south of Eric Drive.

The Live Wire Weekend Edition: Chief Chitwood’s Moron Moment

September 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Daytona police chief calls the Volusia sheriff a “moron,” Ginn defaults on another property, John Tanner enters the Daytona State College board follies, FedEx lays off in Lakeland and elsewhere–and raises its earnings outlook, and more.

Ego and Egoer

May 31, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Two of Volusia’s giant egos, Daytona State’s Kent Sharples and ICI Homes’ Mori Hosseini, have turned the college board into their own little Khe Sanh. The NJ puts in some worthy war reporting.

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