- April 18, 2024
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Three proposed storage facilities — two of them on Old Kings Road — won approval from Palm Coast’s planning board during a meeting on Aug. 17.
Both the city and the county government have seen a rash of proposals for new storage facilities over the past two years.
“We have too much stuff,” one planning board member said at the Aug. 17 meeting, prompting chuckles from fellow board members.
The city received 11 proposals for new storage facilities in the last few years — five of them on Old Kings Road, according to records provided by the city government.
The first facility the board considered Aug. 17, called the Kings Crossing Storage Facility, would consist of two buildings on 35.9 acres, and has come before the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board repeatedly since 2019.
The board approved a special exception application that would let the facility be built in the city’s general commercial zoning district during a meeting in October 2019, and approved its site plan development order in February 2022.
“The planning board ... provided a lot of special conditions for this project — pages of special conditions — that needed to be met, because where it’s located was in a very sensitive area when it comes to floodplains and wetlands,” Palm Coast Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said at the Aug. 17 meeting.
By the Aug. 17 hearing, the applicant had met those conditions, but the 2019 approval had expired, and the facility’s developers were asking the board to renew it. The board approved the request.
If the applicant decides to add outdoor boat and RV storage, that would require a new application and another hearing before the planning board, Tyner said.
A proposed self-storage facility called “Palm Coast Park Lot 4” in city planning documents would bring three self-storage buildings to a 2.8-acre parcel on Matanzas Woods Parkway, 410 feet west of its intersection with U.S. 1.
The facility’s technical site plan shows 560 storage units totaling 90,000 square feet of space, plus 34 exterior spaces for boats and RVs.
The land is vacant and has already been cleared, and is part of the Palm Coast Park Master Planned Development.
The storage facility would share an access with the Amoco gas station off West Matanzas Woods Parkway.
The planning board voted 7-0 to approve the facility’s technical site plan.
A 556-unit storage facility called Broward-Palm Coast is planned for a vacant 11.4-acre parcel at 2240 Old Kings Road, about 1.7 miles south of Palm Coast Parkway.
The facility would have 89,690 square feet of floor area and is in the city’s high-intensity commercial zoning district. It would not have any exterior boat or RV storage.
It would have a full access on Old Kings Road, plus a secondary access for emergency vehicles.
The applicant is exceeding the city’s landscape buffering and planting requirements, City Planner Estelle Lens said.
“They’re leaving the southern portion of the site completely natural, and the northern portion of the site, also, they’re leaving quite a wide area of existing trees and buffering,” she said.
The city will require a right-of-way deed and easement agreement for the widening of Old Kings Road, as depicted in the proposed facility’s site plan, before city staff will issue a certificate of occupancy for the storage facility.
