Destin Sands Condos for Sale

About Destin Sands

Under the tax roll's address of 705 Gulf Shore Drive, Destin Sands holds 20 homes in Okaloosa County, within Destin city limits. The roll numbers them 101 through 105, 201 through 205, 301 through 305 and 401 through 405, all dated 1981, and the state condominium registry shows 20 units recorded May 27, 1981. The registry files the project at 300 Gulfshore Drive, a different street number from the roll's, so a document search should try both.

The 20 homes share one outline of about 1.35 acres, a strip roughly 600 feet from end to end and under 150 feet across. Heated living area splits into two plans. The homes numbered 103, 203, 303 and 403 list 1,600 square feet, and the other sixteen list 1,255. The numbering hints at four levels, though a recorded story count was not found, so none is given.

The federal flood map puts the whole outline in Zone AE, though not at a single elevation. Sampling the outline puts about 52 percent of the strip, its southern end, at a base flood elevation of 8 feet and the northern remainder at 9 feet. That outline is the shared site rather than a building footprint, so which figure governs a given structure, or whether one straddles the line, is a question for that structure's elevation certificate.

By the roll's reckoning the building went up in 1981, which put it past thirty before the July 1, 2022 cutoff in section 553.899. The inspection duty attaches to buildings of three habitable stories or more, measured under the Florida Building Code. Four numbered levels make that plausible, but the building official's file, not unit numbers, decides it. If it did qualify, the first structural inspection fell due ahead of December 31, 2024.