Palm Bay, Florida Palm Bay, Florida City of Palm Bay Flag of Palm Bay, Florida Flag Official seal of Palm Bay, Florida Palm Bay is a town/city in Brevard County, Florida.
The city's populace was 103,190 at the 2010 United States Census, making it the most crowded city in the county.
Palm Bay is a principal town/city of the Palm Bay Melbourne Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a populace of 543,376 at the 2010 census. The Timucua citizens , thriving to the mouth of Turkey Creek at the Indian River by contaminating springs, fish, oysters, and wildlife, are thought to have been the first inhabitants in the Palm Bay area.
Palm Bay's recent history began in the 1850s when the first European pioneer assembled homes along Turkey Creek.
In the 1920s, the town/city was retitled after the bay bordered with sabal palm trees known as Palm Bay, positioned at the mouth of Turkey Creek.
Starting in 1922, a 180 miles (290 km) grid of 80 canals was dug to drain 40,000 acres (160 km2) of swampy territory west of Palm Bay.
In 1926, a fire among the dredges and a harsh hurricane economically depressed Palm Bay.
In 1959, General Development Corporation purchased and platted extensive tracts of territory in Palm Bay for its large residentiary universal known as Port Malabar.
The town/city incorporated itself on January 16, 1960. Prior to expanding their borders, the town/city population was 2,808 that year. The active evolution of the town/city after that point was intertwined with GDC, who laid out and assembled many of the streets, sold and assembled many of the city's now older homes, and assembled a water treatment plant later purchased by the town/city after GDC filed for bankruptcy in 1991.
For three consecutive years between 2003 and 2005, the town/city was made a finalist for the All-America City Award.
There are hundreds of miles of roads that are in such poor condition that the town/city Public Works Department considers them unserviceable.
In 2011, the town/city government created a Palm Bay Road Maintenance District that they hope can levy taxes and alleviate the situation. In 2008, fires on Mother's Day finished 37 homes in the Southwest region of the city.
In 2009, the Brevard Zoo moved the remaining 15 Florida scrub jay families native to the town/city to Buck Lake Conservation Area in Mims.
In 2010, plans were revealed by a private business to precarious Emerald City, a large prepared city inside the town/city limits.
John's Heritage Parkway (also known as the Palm Bay Parkway), an arterial roadway that runs north to south along the limits of the city.
Later phases of the universal will bring the roadway further south and then east following the lower town/city limits, eventually connecting to I-95 just north of Micco Road. There are other roadway enhancement projects presently in the evolution phase, including widening SR 507 (Babcock Street) from four lanes to six.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 68.8 square miles (178.3 km2), of which 65.7 square miles (170.2 km2) is territory and 3.1 square miles (8.1 km2), or 4.56%, is water. Palm Bay is developing its portion of Bayside Lakes "downtown" to problematic a focus for the city. During the early 1990s, Palm Bay Regional Park, a soccer and athletic complex in the part of the city, was constructed.
Climate data for Palm Bay, FL Palm Bay Demographics 2010 Enumeration Palm Bay Brevard County Florida Harris Corporation manufacturing has 3,400 employees on its Palm Bay ground on Palm Bay Road Palm Bay Hospital (formerly Palm Bay Community Hospital) owned by Health First In 2007, the average size of Palm Bay's workforce force was 49,935.
Members of the Palm Bay town/city government in 2003 See also: List of mayors of Palm Bay, Florida Palm Bay utilizes the council-manager form of government. The Mayor and City Council are the legislative branch of town/city government; its members are the community's decision manufacturers.
Power is centralized in the propel Mayor and Council (City Council), which approves the budget, determines the tax rate, focuses on the community's goals, primary projects, and such long-term considerations as improve growth, territory use development, capital enhancement plans, capital financing, and strategic planning.
In Palm Bay, a five-member Mayor and Council, operate in accordance with the City Charter.
Three positions created by the Charter (Charter Officers) are appointed by and report directly to the City Council: City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk.
The City Manager is responsible for all activities related to the operations of the city.
The City Manager hires a experienced staff to assist in the administration and enforcement of the City Charter, ordinances, resolutions, financial conditions and all of the various procedures and policies that are required for the town/city to function properly.
In 2010, the town/city opened a data base to the public, that tracks town/city income and expenditures. The Fire department consists of about a hundred firefighters and five stations. Each shift works 24 hours on and 48 hours off. The Palm Bay Fire Department responded to over 12,000 calls in 2011. In May 2008 (Mothers Day Fires) a wild fire was started that burned a total of almost 26,000 acres (11,000 ha) 40 square miles (100 km2), 30 homes were finished and 140 were damaged. Firefighters from Palm Bay and athwart the state fought the fires around the clock. In 2013, the town/city concluded an agreement with the county to furnish fire and emergency medical aid to whichever governmental unit was closer to the problem: a Palm Bay unit or a Brevard County unit. Palm Bay Academy Charter School Palm Bay Elementary School Palm Bay High School which actually lies inside the town/city of Melbourne Major roads in Palm Bay include the following: 1 This road serves the northeastern section of the city.
It is intersected by four chief roads: Malabar Road, Port Malabar Boulevard, Robert J.
Conlan Boulevard and Palm Bay Road.
I-95.svg Interstate 95 The primary freeway serving the East Coast of the United States runs northwest to southeast through the center of the city's area.
The town/city is served by Interchanges 176 (Palm Bay Road) and 173 (Malabar Road).
Florida 507.svg Babcock Street This road runs through the easterly portion of Palm Bay.
Main intersections include Palm Bay Road, Port Malabar Boulevard, Malabar Road, Waco Boulevard, Valkaria Road, Grant Road, Eldron Boulevard, and Cogan Drive.
Florida 514.svg Malabar Road This road joins U.S.
It is the chief road to the town of Malabar, which gives its name to the road and is largely surrounded by Palm Bay.
City Hall and Palm Bay Regional Park are positioned at its terminus.
Brevard County Road 516 FL.svg CR 516 Palm Bay Road Main intersections include Wingham Drive, Sapodilla Road, Degroodt Road, Eldron Boulevard, Walden Boulevard, Waco Boulevard, Malabar Road, Minton Road, and Jupiter Boulevard.
In 2013, the enhance works director reported that most roads in south Palm Bay were "failed roads," for lack of maintenance. In 2012, Palm Bay had the lowest walkability of any town/city in the United States with a populace over 100,000 citizens . representative for Texas's 5th congressional district, 1955-1965, retired and died in Palm Bay in 2015 City Council/City Clerk - City Emblems, Palm Bay City Emblems.
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