Gulf Shores to Review Second Marina Site Plan for Intracoastal Waterway

John Mullen • August 27, 2024

Summerdance project includes dry boat storage and wet marina slips

Gulf Shores Planning Commission

Gulf Shores, Ala. – (OBA) – The Gulf Shores Planning Commission will consider a site plan for a second marina for 218 acres on the north bank of the Intracoastal Waterway and east of Saunders Yachtworks at its August meeting. The commission will meet in council chambers at city hall today, Aug. 27th, at 4 p.m.

 

The latest plan for an overall project called Summerdance includes a marina on the west end of the tract. The entire area runs from just east where the state is putting in the new bridge to the south of the state’s Peteet Mariculture Center along the waterway.

 

Previous tax records indicated the property was owned by Coastal Resort Properties out of North Carolina but all but one of the six tracts now lists the owner as Cameron Summerdance Phase II with a Montgomery address.

 

Plans are to build the marina on a 24-acre parcel on the far west of the total of 218 acres and is part of the Coastal Resort Properties planned unit development.

 

Developers are seeking to build a 73,000-square-foot dry boat storage building capable of storing 210 boats and housing a retail ship store. A 90-slip wet marina is also part of the plan.

 

Coastal first came to the city in November of 2019 to have the 218 acres rezoned from ICW-N and BT-1N to a planned unit development.

 

“These zoning actions better aligned future development on the property with the approved Corps of Engineers environmental impact study as well as promoted several goals of the Gulf Shores land use plan,” a staff report on the agenda states. “The rezoning and PUD masterplan reduced the amount of density allowed and established design standards to implement the land use plan.”

 

In December of 2022, the commission granted site plan approval to construct three marina basins on the entire property and Coastal already had permits from the Corps in hand at the time of the request.

 

 At the July 23 planning commission meeting, Coastal presented plans for The Cove to be built near the site of the new bridge’s north landing. On this parcel, south of Geno Road, plans call for a 46-unit development with 31 single-family detached dwellings and 15 single-family attached dwellings for a total of 46 units.

 

The plan also calls for a 46-slip marina on the ICW, a central green, two small parks, a dog park and a play area. Part of the conditions the commission will ask for include a 12-foot multi-use path along the ICW in the area.

 

Developers also gave the preliminary details of the Summerdance West Marina on July 23 and are now seeking site plan approval for the project.

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