Princess Place Preserve is a throwback to Flagler County's early days.

It's a place where people go to “get away from it all” and be surrounded by nature.

If you look across Pellicer Creek toward the Atlantic Ocean, you won't find high-rise towers in the distance, a rarity in Florida.

And Flagler County wants more people to enjoy it all.

County leaders are convinced people are willing to pay to stay in a small number of rental cabins here.

Tim Telfer, the Public Lands and Natural Resources Manager for the county is the one person who has probably walked every inch of the preserve. Of the cabins, Telfer says: “It's a great launching point for us to try to get folks out and get them better acquainted with our parks and preserve system.”

The plan is to place three cabins in this wooded area, which is already near developed areas of the preserve.

One cabin would be set aside for near exclusive use by visiting researchers at nearby Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve. The organization keep close tabs on this area.

There are long-term plans to place an additional six on this site though.

And that begs to question, if three cabins can turn into nine, what's to keep nine from turning into, say...18? That's exactly what opponents of the cabins fear will happen.

Dale Petruska, of Palm Coast, was at Princess Place to paint one of the many vistas. When it comes to expanding the cabin offering, she says “it will happen, you know, once they start. But I guess you can't stop progress.”

Telfer said the first three cabins will tie into an existing septic system nearby.

To boost the cabin count to nine, it will take an expensive and invasive infrastructure improvement.

"What we would end up doing is taking all of that waste material and piping it up to Old Kings Road and connecting it with an existing sewer line up there,” Telfer said.

The money to do that isn't funded in the first round of construction.

County commissioners also agreed to build 10 similar cottages at River-to-Sea Preserve.

That park is the site of an old, overgrown RV campground, which the county now owns.