- April 18, 2024
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A wooded parcel of land south the Boston Whaler manufacturing plant may become the site of 217 new single-family homes.
"This is one of the most beautiful layouts we've ever been able to do because of the [topography] and the wetlands."
— KEN ATLEE, Atlee Development Group
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board voted 6-0 in favor of a master site plan for the development, called Grand Reserve East, during a June 15 board meeting.
The Palm Coast City Council will have the final say on whether the site plan is approved, and will vote on it during a future business meeting.
The 217 homes would be designed by Matthews Design Group and built by Amherst Homes on 141.5 acres of land on the eastern side of Roberts Road, about 0.6 miles north of State Road 100 and south of the Boston Whaler property. About 44 acres of the site will be preserved wetlands.
"This is one of the most beautiful layouts we've ever been able to do because of the [topography] and the wetlands ... where if you look at it, you'll see very few lots don't have either a preserve, or waterfront," Ken Atlee, of Atlee Development Group, told the board. "So it's really quite a lovely layout compared to a lot of the things that we've seen, where you have lots backing up to one another.''
The city annexed the land from unincorporated Flagler County in August 2021.
The Flagler County zoning designation would have allowed for up to 300 homes on the property, but the city, after it annexed the land, adopted a Comprehensive Plan amendment limiting Atlee Development Group to 217 homes on the property.
The community would have a density of 1.53 homes per acre; the maximum allowed in the city's single-family residential zoning designation is seven per acre.
Of the 217 lots, 96 would be 50-foot lots, 71 would be 60-foot lots and 50 would be 70-foot lots.
The community would have two entrances: A main entrance on the south side, and a secondary one off Roberts Road.
It would not be age-restricted.
The development would exceed the city's requirements for recreation space: The city requires 4.17 acres of recreation space for a development of Grand Reserve East's size, and the developer is proposing 5.23 acres of recreation space, including an amenity center, a pool, a playground, dog parks, multipurpose fields, sidewalks and trails, a gazebo, and picnic tables in open spaces throughout the site, a city staff member told the board.
