Crystal Shores Condos for Sale

About Crystal Shores

Crystal Shores is one street. All 69 of the county's address points for this plat read Ocean View Drive, Destin 32541, which is a rarer arrangement than the district's grid suggests and it shapes everything from parking to how a buyer reads a comparable sale. The plat's real distinction is a line it does not cross. Florida's Department of Environmental Protection sets a coastal construction control line, and adopting one establishes an area of jurisdiction where special siting and design criteria apply to construction, standards the department describes as potentially more stringent than those used elsewhere in the coastal building zone. That line runs within 50 feet of this plat without entering it, and the Gulf shoreline lies within about 400 feet. FEMA's effective mapping puts every parcel here in Zone X with no published base flood elevation. So this is beach-adjacent ground that carries neither the state's coastal permitting jurisdiction nor a special flood hazard designation, while properties a short distance seaward carry both. Buildout took a quarter century and is still not finished. The county records year built dates from 1993 through 2018 across the 70 parcels, most of them clustered in the middle nineteen nineties, with later houses recorded in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018 and three lots still standing vacant. Lot size is not the constant it looks like from the street. The parcel roll gives every lot its own acreage rather than repeating one figure, and the spread between the smallest and the largest is wide enough that two houses of similar age do not necessarily stand on comparable ground. One 0.12 acre parcel is titled to Crystal Shores Owners Association, and a second phase recorded as Crystal Shores 2 carries two of the parcels.

• Every address on a single street, Ocean View Drive
• Landward of the state's coastal construction control line
• FEMA Zone X across all parcels, no published base flood elevation
• Common parcel titled to the Crystal Shores Owners Association