Ward Seeks Coastal Barriers Reform and Impact Fees
Florida lawmaker James Ward outlines next session aims to move coastal barrier designations from the governor to the Legislature and to adopt impact fees to fund growth infrastructure without broad tax hikes. He predicts a statewide coastal designation policy, a rise in the legal drinking age to 21, and measures to reduce health care costs by limiting malpractice payouts. Ward, from Destin-South Walton, also noted tax caution and possible permit fee adjustments amid ongoing legal challenges.
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Steve Humphries
Bob Graham
James Ward
South Walton-Santa Rosa Beach
Ward
Florida
Islands
Robert Harden
Fort Walton Beach
Reagan
Bay County eyes joint incinerator plan with Walton County
Bay County Commissioner John Hutt Jr says a new state of the art incinerator on Highway 231 could haul garbage for South Walton and other areas. The plan envisions 100 tons per phase, six days a week, with total cost about 20 to 22 million dollars. Annual per family costs would be about 64 dollars, or 17 cents a day, with tipping fees for Walton residents at 25 dollars per ton or less. The project relies on bonds. electricity and steam sales plus ash used as road base would help recover costs over about 12 years. Walton feasibility study advised to decide whether to join Bay’s facility or build its own.
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Pam Mee
Bay County
South Walton
County Commission
South Walton County
John Hutt Jr
Panama City
Hutt
Walton County
Raymond Hall
Bay County Commission
Walton Board
Bay Board
Walton
O’connor
Highway 231
Bay Line Railroad
South
Bay
Blue Mountain Beach
Pat Blackshear
Freeport
DeFuniak Springs
Walton County Commission Agenda Set For Tuesday Meeting
The Walton County board of commissioners meets at 9 a.m. at the county courthouse in DeFuniak Springs. Items include a $50,000 South Walton transportation study with DOT’s Dave Byrd, financing a new county jail, Walton zoning needs by Barr Dunlop, and a landfill waste incinerator option discussed by Bay County’s John Hutt Jr.
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Walton County Board of Commissioners
DeFuniak Springs
Dave Byrd
State Department of Transportation
South Walton
Farmer’s Home Administration
Rick Hall
Richard Winter
Barr, Dunlop and Associates
Tallahassee
Walton County
CFSW to Define Subcommittees at January Meeting
The Committee for South Walton will form five subcommittees and select members to serve on them at 7 30 p m Monday at the Santa Rosa Community Center. The 12 person steering committee will outline each committee's role in building a research team for the incorporation issue. The Jan 8 South Walton Fire Board meeting was cancelled and moved to Tuesday Jan 15 at 7 p m at the Santa Rosa Community Center. Fire training remains set for 6 30 p m Jan 8 at the same center.
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South Walton
Santa Rosa Community Center
State Road 393
South Walton Fire Stations Near Completion
South Walton Fire Control District reports two new stations near operation. One site on State Road 395 in Seagrove houses three trucks and has water. the other at Sandestin is 95 percent complete and could hold a truck though water and electricity remain to be finished. Donated land and cooperative utility work aid progress as crews await final connections and a fire plug.
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Steve Humphries
South Walton
Larry Pentel
Fire Board
Seagrove
al Flowers
Flowers
John V. Smith
Sandestin
Tom Patton
Gulf Power
Suzanne Tyner
Patton
Utility
Pentel
Geronimo St
South
Walton Utility, Inc
DOT says fund deficit impact still unknown in Destin area
DOT official says it is too early to tell which road projects in the Destin South Walton area may be affected if a $339 million shortfall persists. District plans two budgets, one at current funding and one reduced, to review with Tallahassee. Priority projects include the U.S. 331 high rise bridge and the four lane U.S. 98 expansion, with the latter continuing.
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Steve Humphries
State Department of Transportation
Destin
South Walton
DOT
DOT Public Information
Dave Fierro
Destin-South Walton
Tallahassee
Fierro
U.S. 331
Choctawhatchee Bay
Okaloosa
Walton Counties
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Urida
John Hutt
CFSW
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