The city says the developer has no legal right to build on one of 10 golf course tracts. The developer says he does. City staff is recommending approving the development as a whole, but against development on the disputed tract. The council will have to arbitrate, and in doing so, it will have to interpret the language of its Land Development Code.
Alex Ustilovsky
City Planners Urge Significantly Scaling Back 300-Home Matanzas Golf Course Development to Preserve Views
Palm Coast city planners’ response to a planned 300-home development along the disused Matanzas golf course cites rules that prevent building on fairways and blocking existing residents’ backyard views. That would eliminate swaths of planned homes within the 278-acre project.
