- January 19, 2025
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Palm Coast will permit a slight deviation from its usual landscape placement standards to allow for the construction of a new Checkers restaurant on a small parcel of land at 16 Old Kings N., west of the Island Walk Shopping Center. Such a deviation is permitted under city code when the applicant meets certain requirements.
The 0.66-acre parcel on which the restaurant will be located is on the small side for a commercial site and is also encumbered by two easements that lead to a Dollar General and other parcels to the west, making the typical landscape layout infeasible.
So the applicant, Bingham Realty, sought the city planning board's approval for an alternative landscape plan that keeps the required number of plantings but shifts them to revised locations.
"It's a very small lot," Palm Coast Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said at a Nov. 4 Planning and Land Development Regulation Board meeting. "We were able to make the site plan work with a Checkers. Checkers is typically a pretty small building. ... Our landscape architect worked with their landscape architect to make sure they comply with our code."
The actual restaurant building will be just 954 square feet, with a drive-thru, bathrooms and an outdoor seating area. Checkers restaurants, which serve burgers, fries, hotdogs and milkshakes, don't have indoor seating. Construction is expected to start near the beginning of 2021.
The planning board voted 7-0 to approve the proposed technical site plan and landscape plan.
