The Palm Coast City Council last week approved the final plat for 51 town homes in The Hammock at Palm Harbor, a 15-acre subdivision on the south side of Clubhouse Drive, about 200 feet west of Palm Harbor Parkway.
The property, shaped in the outline of a miniature Florida, parallels Crompton Place to the west, which is lined with single-family homes, and a section of Palm Harbor Parkway to the east. Bunnell-based Gray Enterprises sold the property to Hammock Town Homes Inc. of St. Augustine in 2023, for $3 million. The new owners are marketing the town homes for $360,000 for a 1,181-square-foot three-bedroom and $427,000 for a 1,853 square-foot three or four-bedroom.
“Our townhomes are a quick 10-minute drive from the beach, providing easy access to sandy shores and ocean breezes,” reads one of the selling pitches, notable for making a point Flagler Beach government has been increasingly making as county government attempts to craft a beach-management plan and taxing method: most of the people who go to the city’s beaches are from Palm Coast, yet the county’s plans so far have sought to place the heavier taxing burden on the barrier island. (See: “Flagler Beach Demolishes Any County Plan To Make Barrier Island Pay Higher Tax for Beach Protection.”)
The Hammock at Palm Harbor was approved in 2005 for 112 three-bedroom condos. The infrastructure was built. But only one building was built, with seven apartments. A new application for the 51 town homes was submitted and approved in June 2022, and a site development plan issued last August. Construction has followed, with preliminary plat approval at that time. The final plat step draws up the legal demarcations between lots and addresses, including streets and easements. One street will run down the center of the subdivision, Misty Harbor Trace, with a single point of entry and exit on Clubhouse Drive, already built and paved.
The property has a trio of ponds, a pool and will have an amenity center. The cluster of trees at the northeast end of the property will remain undisturbed.
The council followed the planning department’s recommendation and unanimously approved the final plat without comment or questions from council embers or the public.
Ed White says
The name “Hammock at Palm Harbor” is confusing. The “Hammock” refers to the area on the other side of the Intracoastal Waterway between Marineland and Flagler Beach…
Bobby says
Build, build buid, bet Alfin as usual had something to do with this going up. Has anyone asked him with all this building what is he doing about the traffic in PC? The streets are not equipped to handle all this development. Alfin is trashing the City of PC/
Tired of this nonsense says
Enough already! Stop all the building!
Laurel says
Ed White: Palm Coast has been drooling for years to take over the Hammock. Years ago, PC painted their logo on the water storage tank, and the locals made them stop. Then, PC tried to tell Hammock people they had to incorporate in order to get water, and that too flopped. Then, they tried to slip over the ICW and take a beach or two, or even three. Nada. Currently, they say the area is “Palm Coast and the Flagler Beaches” but they don’t want to pay for the beach re-nourishment. So, they, will keep trying to convince tourists, and others, that the Hammock is a part of PC. It is not, thank goodness! They can continue to fake it like the real estate magazines do.
Jim says
More developed property with no infrastructure development this city and county are decade’s behind on road development and other needs for the public.They must have a lot of money tucked away with all the money collected from impact fees and taxes.
Disgusted says
Sure. Keep approving homes that the average person cannot afford.
Bonnie says
Has this Council ever met a developer they didn’t approve? Mr. Danko is promising to limit growth, while rubber stamping every development that comes along. False advertising!
BARBARA ROYERE says
I’m with you. enough is enough. It is not the Hammock. Buyers you have to pay the toll to go to the beach.
You commissioners need to say no to no more buildings, store, gas stations. STOP