- May 4, 2024
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Flagler County has swapped land with Florida Landmark Communities LLC, gaining three properties next to the airport and providing Landmark with frontage along State Road 100, some of which might be used for a gas station and convenience store.
“This should be really a win-win situation — a win for the private sector, and a win for the government sector,” County Administrator Craig Coffey said at a Flagler County Commission meeting Monday, April 7.
Florida Landmark Communities gave the county 44.3 acres appraised at $608,000, and the county gave Florida Landmark three acres appraised at $486,000 in the agreement approved unanimously by the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners at its regular Monday meeting.
“We’re actually getting more bang for our buck,” Flagler County Airport Director Roy Sieger said at the meeting. “We do not have to make up the difference to Landmark.”
One of the three parcels from Florida Landmark will be used for a runway safety area, and the other two will add a buffer between developable land next to the airport and the airport’s operations area.
Florida Landmark Communities will also construct an access road for the airport from Seminole Woods Parkway to replace an access road on land the county is giving to Florida Landmark.
“What the airport is trading for these properties is 3.03 that abuts their current property that abuts State Road 100,” Sieger said. “What that’s going to allow Florida Landmark Communities to do is expand their existing lot that’s on the corner of State Road 100 and Seminole Woods. Right now Florida Landmark Communities is working with a client to actually purchase that property. That client is a client that’s going to put a convenience-slash-gas station on the corner.
Commissioner Barbara Revels asked if fencing installed last year at the airport would have to be moved. Siegert said it would not.
The land the county is receiving in the swap is now in the city of Palm Coast and will be de-annexed, and the land provided to Florida Landmark Communities will be annexed into the city.
