Palm Coast Council Seeks to Protect Old Matanzas Golf Course Viewshed in Perpetuity. Developer Has Other Ideas.
The Palm Coast City Council moved to tighten its Land Development Code to protect golf course viewsheds from development, specifically targeting areas around the old Matanzas Woods Golf Course for protection. There was intense resident opposition against a developer's plan to bu…
When is a viewshed on a former golf course protected from development? When may a developer exercise property rights, override the protections and build there? The question has bedeviled residents around the old Matanzas Golf Course in Palm Coast’s L-Section since 2021. The Palm Coast City Council tried to settle it today, but a legal question remains.
Two months ago some 120 people filled the cafeteria at Indian Trails Middle School largely in opposition of a plan by the developer of the 268-home golf course property to shift 39 houses from one tract to another.
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