Emerald Lakes Development Agreement Added to Palm Bay Council Agenda
A late agenda revision puts an Emerald Lakes development agreement amendment covering roads, a traffic signal and fire service before council Oct. 15.
Palm Bay City Council will consider a second Emerald Lakes item at its regular meeting tonight, Thursday, Oct. 15: a proposed First Amendment to the Emerald Lakes Master Development Agreement with Excess Land Investment, LLC (case DA26-00001). The item was added through an agenda revision posted Oct. 14 and is listed as a first hearing.
The amendment travels alongside the Final Development Plan for Emerald Lakes East Phase I, which is also on tonight's public-hearing calendar. According to the staff memorandum, the two are separate applications, and approval of one does not automatically approve the other.
The memo says East Phase I covers about 250.96 acres east of Interstate 95 on both sides of St. Johns Heritage Parkway. The program it describes includes 652 multifamily units and 1,106,700 square feet of nonresidential space, 200,000 square feet of it tied to a 400-room hotel, along with 115.47 acres of open space. The memo also notes that Brevard Public Schools issued a school concurrency availability determination for the 652 units.
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Under the draft amendment, the developer would extend St. Johns Heritage Parkway 700 feet east of its current end to Workforce Boulevard in the first phase. A traffic signal at that intersection would come in a later phase, once eastbound evening peak-hour trips top 600 or when that phase is completed, whichever happens first. If the developer builds more than 700 feet of the parkway, the city agrees to review a request for additional impact-fee credits.
The draft also addresses fire service. It states that Fire Station 9, the closest station, lacks the capacity for the added demand. It requires the developer to deliver a battalion chief vehicle or equivalent by the 200th residential certificate of occupancy, with further apparatus, or its cost, due if a shortfall remains when the hotel is completed. Those contributions can be credited toward the project's fire impact fees.
City staff recommends approval and asks council to authorize the mayor to sign the amendment.