- October 13, 2024
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A proposed 482-home development off Colbert Lane is on track to become Palm Coast’s fifth community development district.
The Palm Coast City Council voted 4-0 to approve the creation of the new CDD, called Colbert Landings, at a Feb. 21 meeting.
The vote was a first-reading vote, and Mayor David Alfin was absent due to a scheduled surgery; Vice Mayor Ed Danko presided over the meeting in his stead. The proposal will come before the council for a second-reading vote on March 7.
The Colbert Landings development will be on 293 acres on the west side of Colbert Lane just north of State Road 100, and the council approved a preliminary plat for it in May 2022. The land has a mix of preserved wetlands and residential zoning.
A CDD, City Attorney Neysa Borkert said, is like a small city, where the district is responsible for installing, maintaining and repairing some of the infrastructure.
“[It] can include things like road maintenance, storm water management, amenities, securitizing that community — things in that nature,” she said.
Environmental Planner Jordan Myers said one of the benefits of a CDD for the developer is a reduced financing cost. For the city, a CDD removes any obligation for infrastructure debt.
In the case of the proposed Colbert Landings CDD, the city would only be responsible for water and wastewater systems and some offsite improvements, Myers said, while the community development district would be responsible for the other infrastructure.
After infrastructure is completed, Myers said, the CDD will be managed by a board of supervisors.
The city’s four active CDDs, according to meeting documents, are Grand Haven, Palm Coast Park, Town Center and Seminole Palms, the 653-unit apartment complex in the works at Seminole Woods Boulevard and U.S. 1.
Palm Coast will replace historic Fire Station 22, repair Station 25, and build a new fire station, which will become Station 26.
The City Council voted 4-0 on Feb. 4 to approved contracts with SchenkelShultz Architecture and Wharton-Smith, Inc. for the design, construction and repairs.
Kathy Reichard-Ellavsky, the new president of the Palm Coast Historical Society, said during the meeting’s public comment period that she had believed that the Historical Society would be moved to Station 22 to preserve it. Then she recently read online that the fire station is now slated to become a parking lot for the nearby Community Center.
The society has been run by volunteers for over 20 years, she said, and they have been working to preserve historical sites like Station 22.
“Do you have it in your will to reconfigure that lot and work around the structure, or will it become dust?” Reichard-Ellavsky said.
The council had heard a presentation about ideas to expand the Palm Coast Community Center’s parking at a Feb. 14 workshop.
The options proposed would expand the parking across the street on Clubhouse Drive in two potential phases. The first would add parking to an empty lot between the fire station and the Florida Health Care Pharmacy. But Phase 2, if needed, would add parking to the station’s lot.
Fire Chief Kyle Berryhill, who presented the plan, said on Feb. 14 that the council could decide how to memorialize the station, if it chooses to go that route.
