Tuesday’s City Council Meeting: Seminole Trace Returns
Palm Coast, FL — City Hall. Tuesday, six o’clock.
Previously, in the room.
Late August. Council approves for roughly 260 acres of Town Center land.
It settles the Palm Coast Holdings lawsuit.
Early September. Council Seminole Trace.
The developer and staff go back to rework the agreement.
Mid-September. Three proposed city laws get their .
The land code rewrite. A Fire Rescue transfer ban. A ban on recycled drinking water.
Roll call.
Seminole Trace. Back, and changed.
Same 330 acres, formerly Cascades. The cap still goes from about 400 homes to about 750.
What the developer : open space up to 40 percent, a cap on townhomes, wider lots, deeper setbacks, a buffer strip.
And an offer of land for a .
Staff says the changes address the three reasons it had recommended denial.
Its remaining worry is the skate park: when it gets built, and whether the fees will be enough.
The . That was before these changes.
Tuesday is the first of two votes. The tentative calendar puts the second on .
After the Nov. 3 election.
Town Center. How the $17 million gets paid.
Two pieces: a line of credit, and any advance from the city’s General Fund.
The redevelopment agency’s tax money would pay them back.
The packet holds of the same amendment.
The agency’s version ends that support in 2034. Anything still owed after that comes from other revenues.
The council’s version leaves that sentence out.
A “” is on the calendar for later this month. The calendar doesn’t say what it covers.
Maintenance center. About for the next phase.
Most of it builds the fleet maintenance and wash buildings.
Whatever is left from the approved expenses can go to Phase 2.
Land code. Final vote.
The draft sets which projects the land use administrator , and which go to a board or to council.
Council asked for changes at first reading. Staff answers in writing.
On flood height, it cites the floodplain coordinator. On historic surveys, it points to a separate law. On buffers, it adds new language.
Fire Rescue and drinking water. Two .
One bans the transfer of the city’s Fire Rescue Department. The other bans direct potable reuse — recycled wastewater sent straight back into the drinking supply.
Both came out of a council workshop in early September. Neither has changed since.
That’s the board.
The rest happens in the room — and the room is open.
— Johnny Diamond · PalmCoastStorylines.com
City Council meets Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 6 p.m. in the Jon Netts Community Wing at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue. Proclamations start at 5:30.
Every major item has its background and the earlier deliberations on the Oct. 6 meeting page.