- April 17, 2024
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A wooded plot of land south of the Flagler Executive Airport is slated to become a community of 529 homes, while Citation Boulevard will be extended so that emergency vehicles can reach the new homes and others nearby without the need for the city to construct an additional fire station.
The Palm Coast City Council voted at a Nov. 2 meeting in favor of a zoning change and Future Land Use Map change that will allow the development, called Seminole Palms, to move forward. It will be about 1.6 miles south of State Road 100 and just west of Seminole Woods Boulevard.
The developer will build the Citation Boulevard extension, and is conducing a land swap with the city in order to grant the city the property that will become the right-of-way for the extended portion of the road.
The development will have 451 detached single-family homes, plus 78 single-family attached townhomes.
Councilman Victor Barbosa said he would have liked the development to be gated — it won’t be — and was concerned by the small size of the community’s lots: The single-family home lots will be on lots of at least 40 feet by 120 feet, totaling 4,800 square feet, while the townhomes will be built on 2,000 square foot lots.
The community will have three exits, including one added as a result of a suggestion by Councilman Eddie Branquinho, who advised the developer to add it for emergency access.
The City Council on Nov. 2 was dealing with only a portion of the property — 37.7 acres out of the 239.6-acre whole.
The 37.7-acre section had a Future Land Use Map designation of mixed use and canal, and the council voted 3-1, with Barbosa dissenting, to change those designations to “residential,” at the developer’s request. One of the council’s five members, Councilman Nick Klufas, was absent.
The council also approved a policy limiting development on the land to a cap three units per acre. The limit under a mixed-use designation would have been 15 units per acre.
The council also voted 3-1, again with Barbosa dissenting, to change the zoning designation on the property from a combination of single family residential, general commercial and public/semipublic to Master Planned Development.
Both the FLUM change and the zoning change won 6-0 votes of approval from the city’s Planning and Land Development Regulation Board at a meeting on Sept. 15.
Construction of the new development will begin with the Citation Boulevard extension, then the construction of townhomes, the community’s amenity center and the first 155 single-family homes.
