- November 18, 2024
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At first glance, it may look like a bad deal for Palm Coast: 14 acres that are now part of the city’s boundaries will become unincorporated, and part of the Flagler County Airport, in a land swap that will transfer just three acres of now-unincorporated land into the city’s boundaries.
But the 14 acres the city will lose sit at the end of a runway on space the airport needs for a safety buffer — the area, essentially, that would be in danger if a plane missed its landing — while the three acres that will be transferred into the city’s boundaries are a plot owned by Florida Landmark, LLC at the intersection of State Road 100 and Seminole Woods Boulevard.
“You’re potentially looking at a service station, or barring that, some other use that would increase the city’s tax rolls,” Palm Coast Senior Planner Jose Papa said at a May 27 City Council workshop.
Florida Landmark Properties plans to develop the three-acre plot for an airport commerce center, but would need city water and sewer connections to do it.
“They have a retail establishment interested in that corner, but only if they can have that State Road 100 frontage,” City Manager Jim Landon said. “This is something that’s really a three-way agreement with Flagler County, the property owner that owns the corner of Seminole Woods and State Road 100 — that would be the southwest corner — and the city of Palm Coast.”
The three-acre rectangle of land borders a larger, triangular Florida Landmark plot that runs along Seminole Woods Boulevard.
The 14-acre plot that would become unincorporated could not be used for any residential or commercial development because of federal air safety regulations.
None of the land in question is owned by the city; the transfers considered involve boundaries, not land ownership, Landon said.
The matter will come before the City Council again for action during a business meeting.
