The Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday approved the final plat for the 182-home subdivision known as the Enclave at Seminole Palms, on 70 acres north of the Citation Boulevard extension, between Belle Terre Boulevard and Seminole Woods Boulevard, and just south of the county airport property. Platting is a legally required final regulatory step in a development, mapping out individual property boundaries, easements, roads and other infrastructure features.
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In an indication of this new council’s leeriness regarding anything that could associate it with new development, Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris wanted the public to be absolutely clear he and the council had nothing, or almost nothing, to do with the Enclave. “As one former council member used to say, for prosperity,” Norris said, referring to former Council member Nick Klufas (he meant to say “posterity”), “let it be noted that we’re just closing out this plat, and it was already in the work years and years ago.”
But the subdivision’s development has never been reported until now, because its previous regulatory steps were crossed either administratively or at the city’s planning board, drawing little attention. The planning board approved the development’s master plan in March 2023, and administration planners approved the preliminary plat last March, issuing a development permit for the site last May. Since then, 80 percent of the subdivision’s infrastructure has been built.
JTL Grand Landings sold the property in March 2023 to a company affiliated with the Kolter Group, the Palm Beach-based real estate development and investment firm whose development arm is building the 1,200–home Radiance development, formerly known as Eagle Lakes, at the south end of Old Kings Road. The Enclave is part of the Seminole Palms Community Development District.
The property is zoned single-family residential. It will have a density of 3.23 homes per acre, with 13.75 acres preserved as wetlands on the east of the property. The subdivision’s houses will be built in close succession along a street called Enclave Avenue that will loop north from the subdivision’s single entrance on Citation Boulevard. The lots will be 6,000 square feet each, generally with widths of 50 feet.
“The infrastructure improvements, including the storm water systems, the roadways, the wastewater lines, the potable water lines, lift stations, etc., are constructed at the sole cost of the developer for this project,” City Planner Estelle Lens told the council. The developer is providing a performance bond of $2.3 million, in case the project is not completed. The amount is equivalent to 120 percent of the cost of completion. The internal roadways and storm water management facilities will remain privately owned and maintained by the Community Development District.
Norris before the vote wanted to ensure that the city has capacity to account for the subdivision’s expected production of 35,000 gallons of wastewater per day. Other than that, the council had no questions and approved the final plat with a 3-0 vote (Council members Ty Miller and Ray Stevens were absent).
Mike says
They should note that those planes will be over those homes all day long!
FlaglerLive says
The subdivision is not in the flight line of the airport’s runways.
BLINDSPOTTING says
Those homes are still going to be affected by the noise, lead pollution
and safety impact of student flight school planes, those cessas are loud
and perform their touch and goes continously , over 170,000 touch and
go operations annually.
Cindy says
Really?????? If not over the subdivision then right next door to it and that is close enough.
Tucker says
I live in grand landings,and believe me, plans from embry riddle, all day and evening!
Valerie Lauer says
All this building is destroying palm coast
BLINDSPOTTING says
Did the previous council people , planning board, and their administration: DeLorenzo,
Cote look into getting AVIGATION EASEMENTS for those homeowners????? The
FCBOCC along with Sieger is not going to do anything to protect them. They should
now use some of that FDOT GRANT FUNDING ,six million dollars, that they intend to
grant to the airport for Siegers corporate terminal Tah Mahal , a clubhouse for the flight
school students which he does not need as he has a corporate terminal and use it to better
sound proof and insulate those homes windows , doors, roofs to add some buffer against
the student flight schools mills that have taken over the airport. Sieger reported in a
previous county meeting there will be more to come. We are happy that the old city regime
is out and citizens have a new concerned Mayor and council people including Pontieri who
care for their constituents, let’s see if the newly elected county commissioners will come on
board to help resolve some of this insanity and to come up with creative ways in which
citizens can live a decent quality of life.
Atwp says
Keep approving, who will build? Deportations are ramping up, who will build the houses?
Klr says
“H-2B Visa
One of the quickest routes to bringing construction employees to the U.S. is through the H-2b visa. The H-2B program can be used by employers that demonstrate temporary, seasonal, or peak-load shortage of staff and need of additional workers- this is often the case for our clients in the construction industry. “
It is LEGAL to work here, if you fill out the paperwork and the employer uses eVerify. The way they’re supposed to
FLF says
Planes prefer to land into a headwind, what’s below in flatland doesn’t matter.
Willy James says
Why would anybody want to buy/build a house near an airport? How long will it take these homeowners to start bitching about aircraft noise and demanding the airport be closed?
XYZ says
Good point Willy Boy, the homes should just sit there
and not sell,then again its the flight schools that create
the havoc, one can count on their fingers how many
jets come in and out weekly, never heard complaints
from prople about the NG practicing,the county has
the control to regulate, they need to step up their game
and stop saying they can’t do anything , once again
where are the noise studies, EPA studies, noise compatibility
program.?????
Bigger, Better says
Norris before the vote wanted to ensure that the city has capacity to account for the subdivision’s expected production of 35,000 gallons of wastewater per day.
Current capacity?
That can be answered with a “NO”
Taxpayer capacity?
Politician would answer “Of course, our current taxpayers can absorb the costs for this much needed improvement”
XYZ says
Keep in mind the airport has no radar and we have flight schools
that come into our aiportat anytime beyond control tower hours
that turn off their transponders and practice their touch and goes
and whose to guarantee that as the airport grows runways won’t
be made longer or more added..
Rob says
Why is every developer approved! Is there no conservation in Seminole Woods!
CRB says
Apparently no conservation anywhere in Flagler County!
Meanwhile, I live tier 29 years and was always told that conservative land is just that conservative land. It cannot be built on and that was the assumption that I was also under myself but here we are all these stupid wood frame homes being built, literally in 34 weeks And literally displacing thousands of animals at a time!!
I have saved videos from when they cleared out the middle of Ryan Drive and I have one wooded lot next to my house. So the day that they cleared out this huge couple acres worth of land whatever it is, the deer had nowhere to go. They made it to the wooded lot next to my house. I had over 30 deer, scrambling running into each other, not knowing which way to go traumatized jumping over each other! And I can’t sit here and say that it did not make me sad for them because you could tell how scared all of them were and all these years of being in Florida, I’ve never seen that many deer together in one time it’s just all selfish nonsense if you ask me And I really wanna know where all these jobs are that people are going to?
FLF says
Airport has been there since 1942. Sorry about your bad luck :(
XYZ says
FLF: You are misinformed, there were housethere since the 1930’s.
James says
That “airport” is a decommissioned military air base.
Probably decommissioned in part due to it’s short runways that could not accommodate the new jet fighters of it’s day. Probably found too costly to lengthen them and add new radar/flight control systems. Besides, they probably were already planning Cape Canaveral down the coast.
I suppose we should be thankful they didn’t leave a toxic mess behind. Humm… or is that why it’s still an airport and not residential?
Just an observation.
T says
Stop destroying palm coast greed palm coast sucks now people come then leave smart
Karl says
As I’ve mentioned before, the airport will become much more busy in the near future. I’ve seen a huge increase in a NJ, Wall Township, airport in a short number of yrs. And factor in the alnewly added runway lenght which was added so that larger private jets can take off fully fueled, thus is why the runways were expanded. Well that all equals more jets, more flights, more noise. Obviously the Palm Coast is changing, buyer beware.
XYZ says
Karl: our tower is not equipped to handle what we already
have, ATC uses binoculars , no radar, why would them rich
folks with private jets want to even land here when they
can land at Daytona airport is much safer and why would they
even want to land here when the flight school plane mills
occupy most of the runways????
Valerie Lauer says
Enough with the building of bond you guys are destroying palm coast
Concerned inn Palm Coast says
Yes and when there is more inventory than people buying it’s going to drive everyone’s home values down. People will be upside down on their mortgage causing an economic chain reaction. Over building has many layers of problems.
Susan Bush says
I have attended meetings where they explained the cost of adding roundabouts versus traffic lights, etc. What are the plans to widen roads and add traffic lights so people who are already residing here can get in and out of there developments? The traffic has already increased so much on old Kings in 100. Along with accommodating water, Wi-Fi and electrical issues.
Cathy P says
We recently moved to Palm Coast, into a brand new community. Traveling along US 1, I was amazed to see just how many new sub-divisions were going up. The thought that kept running through my head was, “wow, what is this area going to look like in one, three, five years.” coming from a densely populated area, I have a few concerns as well. But I also consider points like the tax base, school subsidies, conservation efforts, water use, traffic and congestion. Perhaps a bit naive, I would like to think that local government, builders and conservation groups are working together to address these and many other issues. As for the Seminole Woods community, does the proximity of the airport get disclosed in the buyers prospectus? Most major cities have thriving communities around bust airports. Could Palm Coast be a city of tomorrow as a business and vacation destination which would pump money into the abundant independent businesses in and around the area?
BLINDSPOTTING says
Flagler Live: Didn’t you mention in a previous article that
enclaves are illegal? They should build a park there for
green space and conserve what is left of our flora and
fauna.
FlaglerLive says
It is only named Enclave. It is not an enclave as far as municipal boundaries are concerned.
Hammock Bear says
Moratorium for Flagler County for one year building new homes and subdivisions. Past time to deal with current residential development existing problems. New homes built in the past three years have had over a thousand home sites that were not properly engineered causing flooding of neighbors and new home sites during our heavy rain season. Situations like this need and should be resolved before any new building proceeds. Greed from large developers should not be Flagler County residents concerns but it Is. Fix our ditches with no more excuses.
Jeff says
Had a 60×100 (6K sq ft) lot in California. Just a small 1,150 sq ft home on it. There wasn’t much yard left to separate you from your neighbor. I’m sure these hones will be much larger covering more of a 6,000 sq ft lot. I wouldn’t want to live there. That’s why I appreciate the low density 10,000 to 12,500 square foot lots in most of Palm Coast.
Land of no turn signals says says
I’m glad all the road improvements made on RT 100 has traffic moving freely now 24 hours a day. ( yes I was being disingenuous).
MC says
This proliferation of new homes being built in Palm Coast is bloating the housing inventory. It is already affecting home sales of existing homes here. We have three beautiful homes in our neighborhood for sale and nobody even comes to look at them. The more they build, the more difficult it will be to sell an existing home at asking price.
Paradise Lost says
MC nailed it with your comment. Florida housing boom is about to bust. These politicians and developers better wake up. Home prices are on the decline, closings are way down, mortgage rates, insurance rates, taxes, etc., are headed up.
James says
Norris rubber stamps his first development, blames the last council. Didn’t you just vote for it, dude?
Norris is more worried about allowing wacky house colors than how many houses are actually being built. He’s just like the rest of the BS politicians…you’ll see.
Jim says
There building a bunch of these odd random small local businesses in certain patches throughout Palm Coast and most are empty with literally no people walking in, how they stay in business beats me. Personally I would love to see indoor activities for families and local resident, the city needs more life an indoor Mall would be great because you have all theses homes with nowhere else to go only one theater that barely supports an entire city and these small outlets are starting to get crowded because we got nothing fun to do in the city.
Dennis C Rathsam says
NEW MAYOR…..SAME SHIT!!!!! With all this constrution, land disappearing, I now have to walk my dog, with a 9mm in my pocket to protect my dog & myself from BOBCATS. The ones in the L section are bigger than my St Bernard! Seems to me, soon as you take the oath of mayor, you turn into a blooming idiot.
Joe D says
In response to the flight training school air traffic…
I was waiting in line at BJ’s to buy gas at approximately 4:50 pm on Friday 1/17/25…and in a period of 15 minutes ( it was a LONG line)…FIRST HAND, I saw and HEARD 3 small engine planes taking off overhead…literally (no joking) as loud a a train going by! I would lose my mind if I had to live near that noise!
I did use to live near train tracks, but I got used to them going by only 4 times a day…NOT every few minutes!
Local residents have my TOTAL SYMPATHY…
BLINDSPOTTING says
We pray that one of those student flight school planes don’t crash
into a gas station we would have a disaster, besides flying low and
loud over homes they also fly low and loud over the high school,
hospital, senior daycare center, and othe businesses, today 1/24/25
there were homeowner complaints that a seaplane this am was
performing nose dives over peoples homes continously with the
transponder turned off. A homeowner called the airport, asked for
Sieger who was not there and a person who id himself as John answered
reported to the homeowner that he could not identify the aircraft,
the only seaplanes at our airport belong to Ryan Aviation who is
a tenant, beside ATC should be able to identify with the 160, 000
tower that was part of granting funds, whst happened????
Tucker says
On some days, planes from embry riddle fly over my house every 60 seconds
LOLO ALPAI says
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!! Thats all these PIMPS want…they COULD CARE LESS ABOUT WHERE THESE STRUCTOR’S
ARE BUILD..all U Board Members do you live next to an Airport? When a plane crashes into the housing area…all you all will say…
OUR HEARTS, LOVE, CAREING GO OUT TO FAMILY MEMBERS!!!!….BS..
XYZ says
They all will be sued, except for the ones who were on board
to help remedy these issues, once again there is no liability
insurance against punitive damages and we will be the handing
in all our data to the insurance companies. How can any responsible
level headed airport staffer respond to a citizen who feels threatened
and whose lives are in danger to call the FAA is beyond insanity while
a plane is doing nose dives over their homes, the danger should have
been properly addressed and handled immediately, then the complaint
comes in by the home owner. This is the climate that Roy Sieger perpetuates
among his staff just like his bad temper outburst with a tenant pilot who
made an emergency landing at our airport because his life was in danger
of which Sieger is trying to evict. Sieger neither has the temperment
nor the compassion for the citizens of Palm Coast to direct this airport,
he should be terminated, and he has also gone way beyond his scope of his
job discription in other sneaky efforts that would benefit him and his fat
cat buddies and not the citizens of Palm Coast.
BLINDSPOTTING says
PUBLIC NOTICE:
MEETING FIND OUT HOW THIS CAN EFFECT YOU , YOUR HOME AND PROPERTY VALUES
RE: THE AIRPORT OVERLAY ORDINANCE
WORKSHOP: 2/5/25
TIIME: 5:30 pm
LOCATION: FLAGLER COUNTY COMMISSION CHAMBERS
1769 EAST MOODY BLVD.
XYZ says
Tucker: were you aware of the AIRPORT NOISE COMPLAINT PORTAL
that the county set up several months ago without any PUBLIC NOTICE?
They removed it, there were over 500 complaints in that portal that needed
to be investigated and we were never notified of the results of those 500
or so complaints. The noise of these flight schools over our comunities
go well beyond the airports surrounding communities we are finding out.
Time the REAL TRUTH BE TOLD. On February 5th there will be a meeting
at 5pm in the county chambers regarding ordinances Sieger along with
Moylan to be signed off by Hadeed that they are trying to pass of which
may have adverse consequences to the citizens.
BARBARA A ROYERE says
MR/MS city mayor,council members. Enough is enough. Toy are all so greedy to get the property taxes. We have had enough construction. Every road has some constructions. WHY? MONEY. You don’t care about the people you serve. I’m sick of all of you
If you tax the barrier Island prepare for war. You are the ugly American/.
BARBARA A ROYERE says
Stop with all the construction. You are just greedy money hungry mongrels. You have destroyed once a quite place to live. All for property taxes. Your all pimps. Your never going to stop until the last spec of land is used up. You don’t care about the people the animals. ITS ALL ABOPT YOU & $$$
I hope all of you get your due process in hell
BARBARA A ROYERE says
Stop with all the construction. You are just greedy money hungry mongrels. You have destroyed once a quite place to live. All for property taxes. Your all pimps. Your never going to stop until the last spec of land is used up. You don’t care about the people the animals. ITS ALL ABOPT YOU & $$$
I hope all of you get your due process in hell
Ed Danko, former Vice-Mayor,PC says
Promises Made, Promises Broken Norris rubber stamps his first housing development! Looks like Mike is more focused on stealing the boat parade and leading it in his rowboat than keep his word to voters. Soon comes his water and tax increases!
Doug says
How the heck can Norris assure us that we have enough wastewater capacity for another development when the state said we were already OVER our total capacity LAST YEAR?
James says
Does anyone else here find the thought that Dennis Rathsam is packing a 9mm disturbing?
Just-a-duck’n-and-a-cover’n.
JaceyJones says
Ok, #1, EVERY one of those new streets in this new ‘subdivision’ should start with the letter “T” in keeping with who Palm Coast is in naming areas streets after the alphabet. This would be the new and needed “T” section, since the S section also has the “U”, “K” and “Z” sections in the same area. I drive daily down Seminole Woods past this slashed and burned monstrosity with NO trees (once upon a time this would have been a HUGE NOPE back in the day when Palm Coast regulations required new homes to keep trees, not bushes like Crepe Myrtle). It looks like devastation, and I SINCERELY hope that Centex Homes is not the builder (subpar) nor any Atlanta, nor out of state builder who wants to build homes the way they do in their non-hurricane state! I always admired Florida for their strong quality building standards. What happened???
I admire the W section for the mature trees in nearly every yard that adds huge value to their homes and area. Next set of subdivisions built should be required mature trees kept and SIDEWALKS on EVERY street, with top-covered lighting along the street to bring illumination without creating lighting pollution in the sky. Palm Coast and Flager County should REQUIRE all of the aforementioned ideals.
Skibum says
Buyer beware… I would love to believe that those who might eventually be looking to buy or rent one of the many homes that are currently being built in this area as well as new developments in the early stages of design anywhere near our local airport would do their due diligence PRIOR to moving close to a longstanding airport that has been there for many decades. Please DO NOT move close to this airport and once there, suddenly have an epiphany that OMG there is airport noise, we must complain incessantly and shut down the aircraft that are taking off and landing because it is destroying our community’s peace and quiet… LOL!
Joe D says
In response to Klein:
Yes H -2B “temporary” immigrant work visas help with labor shortages, but they are limited in number, and they are limited in time
For example: the crabbing areas of Maryland/Virginia/Delaware can’t get enough immigrant worker visas approved to fill the slots needed to “pick” crabs (pulling apart blue fin crabs and separating the different types of crab meat: lump/backfin/ claw). It is a messy /smelly difficult job that doesn’t pay particularly well. The canneries can get enough US workers willing to do the job (at any salable price), and the number of Federal government allowed visas is so limited there is almost a lottery for the canneries and seafood restaurants to participate. If you aren’t lucky enough to get one of the company visa allotments, your company might go out of business. Same thing in Pennsylvania for the Spring planting , fruit and vegetable growing farms and again the fall peach/apple harvests. H2B visas are limited in number…not a solution in itself for the labor shortages in construction/hotel/ restaurant/service industries.
Joe D says
In response to James:
Rather than your question about Dennis C carrying a 9mm, wouldn’t the correct question be ….are you SURPRISED?
With the current “almost anyone” can carry a gun without a license, without a police background check and with no mandatory gun safety training…current environment in Florida, I’ve pretty much assumed when I go out shopping and to local events that (almost) everyone is “carrying.”
I’ve never owned a gun or had one in my house (too concerned about my 3 kids safety growing up, even with gun safety storage …it only takes one lapse in memory to have a tragedy). That being said, I for the first time in my adult life am NOW considering a hand gun for personal protection since retiring to Florida . Not so much being robbed, but being caught in the crossfire between 2 immature (potentially drunk or high ) “hot heads” wanting to settle a score over a parking space or who just “disrespected” someone’s girlfriend or mother….and their only solution is to pull out a FIREARM.
Valerie Lauer says
Palm Coast can’t even control all the flooding. We get when we have smoms. Then they tell us to concert water. I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of money on Crappy palm coast water I’m not happy about the increased.You’re gonna give us for c***** water?But let’s keep building.The traffic here is crazy.
Please for the love of god stop