- December 19, 2024
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A proposal to add 750 homes at the Palm Coast Park development in northwestern Palm Coast was among the developments that won the Palm Coast Planning Board’s support during a meeting on April 19.
Other measures approved by the Planning Board would add 180 homes to land off of Seminole Woods Boulevard, create a new subdivision in Town Center and amend the Coquina Shores Development of Regional Impact.
The city’s Planning Board approved all four of these major developments and alterations. Some must go to the Palm Coast City Council for final approval.
The developer of Palm Coast Park, Byrndog PCP, requested two amendments to the community’s development plans.
The amendments would add 750 residential units, decrease the office building area by over 51,000 square feet, decrease commercial space by 105,000 square feet and increase industrial space by 300,000 square feet.
Byrndog’s representative, Michael Chiumento, said the language of Palm Coast Park’s development plans was meant to allow flexibility.
“It was always intended to develop and more as the community developed,” he said. “It always provided for flexibility of moving things around.”
The changes will bring the total number of residential units in the development to 6,454 units, almost 3,000 more than initially planned. In 2004, when it was originally approved, Palm Coast Park was set to have 3,600 residential units and 3.2 million square feet of non-residential building area.
This amendment, if approved by City Council, would be the ninth amendment to the Palm Coast Park Development of Regional Impact.
The proposed development called Coquina Shores sits on just over 500 acres of land on the north side of State Road 100, a quarter mile east of Old Kings Road.
The developer’s requests would reduce the number of residential units planned for the land.
The property was originally approved as a development of regional impact in 2006, and was entitled to 2,411 residential units, 80,000 square feet of non-residential building area and 150 hotel rooms, according to Planning Board meeting documents.
The latest amendment would, if also approved by City Council, limit development to 750 units and change the land use designations from mixed use and conservation to residential and conservation, eliminating all non-residential building.
The project’s density would be 1.48 units per acre. Jay Livingston, representing the applicant, JX Palm Coast Land, LLC, said the new plan would actually increase conservation land by 10.9 acres.
The Planning Board approved both the land use and rezoning requests 6-0.
The planning board also approved two requests from a developer seeking to build 180 units on 41 acres on the east side of Seminole Woods Boulevard and just over half a mile south of Sesame Boulevard.
The Future Land Use Map designation for the property is currently greenbelt, but the developer is asking to change it to residential and change the zoning to single-family residential.
At a previous Planning Board meeting, the developer submitted a request to build 200 units on the land. Since then, the developer has agreed to reduce the number of units to 180.
The lots would be a minimum of 50 feet wide, and the development would also have multiple retention ponds.
The planning board voted 6-0 to approve the land use and rezoning requests.
A new, 333-lot subdivision may be built in Town Center.
The property, situated at the end of Royal Palms Parkway on the west side of Interstate 95, totals almost 195 acres. Lot sizes vary, but all will be at least 40 feet wide.
The subdivision is also expected to include an amenity center, kayak launch, waking paths and pocket parks.
The Planning Board unanimously approved a subdivision master plan for the development.
