500-home development proposed for land south of Flagler Executive Airport

Palm Coast Observer
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A developer hopes to convert 239.6 acres worth of vacant, wooded land south of State Road 100 and the Flagler Executive Airport into a community of over 500 homes.

The Seminole Palms development would have 451 single-family detached sites plus another 78 single-family attached townhomes about a mile and a half south of S.R. 100 on the west side of Seminole Wood Boulevard.

The city of Palm Coast’s Planning and Land Development Regulation Board at a Sept. 15 meeting voted 6-0 in favor of a rezoning that would replace the several zoning designations currently on the land — general commercial, single-family residential, and public/semipublic — with the Master Planned Development designation.

The board also voted 6-0 in favor of the developer’s request to change the Future Land Use Map designation for 37.7 acres of the property from mixed use and undesignated to residential, with a policy limiting development to a density of three units per acre rather than the current 15 per acre.

Storage facility, tarot card readings approved

The planning board on Sept. 15 granted a special exception to allow tarot card psychic and palm readings to be conducted at the Vedic Moons metaphysical and spiritual wellness shop in St. Joe Plaza.

Tarot card and palm readings are allowed in the city’s high-intensity commercial zoning, but require a special exception in the general commercial zoning district where the shop is located.

One board member asked what training people undergo to perform tarot card readings. The applicant said tarot card readers train under people who already perform readings.

The planning board also approved a technical site plan for a Storage King USA facility on 11.84 acres on State Road 100 east of Bulldog Drive.

The storage facility will have 690 internal storage spaces in two and 38 boat and RV spaces.

The city has worked out an agreement with the developer to swap land to allow the city a right-of-way along Citation Boulevard — which the developer plans to extend — for emergency services access, saving the city from needing to build another fire station in the area to improve its emergency response times.

The development would be built in phases, starting with the extension of Citation Boulevard and the construction of the 78 townhomes, followed by the creation of an amenity center and 155 single-family detached homes. Later phases would add more homes.