- September 7, 2024
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In the last two months, the Palm Coast Planning Board has approved almost 750 homes for the next two phases and applications for a development within the Palm Coast Park development.
The Palm Coast Park Development of Regional Impact is a massive 4,700-acre, phased development project in the northwest portion of Palm Coast along Highway U.S. 1 that was originally approved in 2004. It is broken down into multiple tracts, with smaller developments within those tracts, and is expected to have over 2,000 homes once it is finished.
At its June 18 and July 17 meetings, the Palm Coast Land Development and Regulation Board reviewed and approved applications for Phases 6 and 4 of the Sawmill Branch development, respectively, according to planning board meeting documents. Sawmill Branch is within the Palm Coast Park DRI and the Palm Coast Park Master Planned Development, which was approved in 2020.
Sawmill Branch, a residential development, is split into seven phases. Phase 4 is on 213 acres of land on west U.S. 1, just half a mile south of Old Kings Road North. The application was for a preliminary plat review of the phase’s 425 single family residential lots.
Each home within Phase 4 will have a 4,000-square-foot lot size and can be built up to 35 feet high.
The Phase 6 application was for a residential subdivision master plan. The developer proposes 320 single-family townhomes for Phase 6, a 64.5-acre site just under a mile south of Old Kings Road North and on the west side of U.S. 1.
Phase 6 also neighbors a 30-acre site for a school, according to the June 18 meeting documents. The Palm Coast Park DRI was required to donate that land to Flagler Schools for a future school.
The Planning Board unanimously approved both applications, but the approval is contingent on several restrictions.
Primarily, Sawmill Branch Boulevard, the “spine road” connecting the Sawmill Branch development, must be constructed before any certificate of occupancies can be issued for Phases 3-5. In the case of Phase 6, only 50 units can be constructed until another road for Phase 7 is constructed and connected to U.S. 1.
In January, the Palm Coast City Council approved the final plat for Phase 2A and 2B of the Sawmill Branch development. Both phases combined will add 493 homes. These phases include a 9,500-square-foot amenity center, which will be shared across the other phases in Sawmill Branch. Infrastructure work on Phases 2A and 2B began in November 2021, according to information from the January council meeting.
At the July 17 meeting, several members of the planning board asked a representative of the developer how many homes on the previously approved tracts have been already bee built. The representative said he believed around 300 homes had been completed.
