BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Mayor Karen Lake summarized the city’s accomplishments in 2021 and laid out her goals for the upcoming year in her Jan. 1 podcast of The Lake View.
Lake said that some of the municipality’s accomplishments in 2021 were the South Lawrence Boulevard street scape project, a new food truck ordinance, completion of Phase 1 of a trailhead on the Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail, approval of a paddleboard kiosk at Keystone Beach and a new pickle ball court at Sunrise Park.
“I’m happy with the results of FDOT’s work,” she said of the street project. “I’m thankful for the collaboration of Clay Electric in agreeing to bury electrical lines underground. I was downtown when their crew took down the last wood pole and I have to say, it was a moment.”
Lake also mentioned the city’s intervention in a legal dispute between the St. Johns River Water Management District and north Florida water utilities, which resulted in the utilities agreeing to pay a portion of the costs for the Black Creek Water Resource Development Project.
The mayor added that the city’s theme in 2022 will be “developing a clear roadmap for future progress on all levels.”
