Old Bay Homes for Sale

Living in Old Bay

Old Bay is a 6.48-acre replat in the City of Destin, Okaloosa County, marked on its vicinity map between Airport Road and Emerald Coast Parkway, with Mattie M. Kelly Boulevard running down its western side in a 50-foot right-of-way. Bonezzi Development Company dedicated the plat as Old Bay Townhomes of Destin, a replat of Old Bay Village, and the county clerk filed it on June 30, 2004, in Plat Book 21, pages 49 and 50. The replat lays out 56 townhouse lots, each 83.21 feet deep and about 20 feet wide, in rows separated by common area, plus a Lot 57 labeled Old Bay Village Condominium. The county roll lists an 18-unit Old Bay Condo, units 101 through 306, and gives every one of those units and all 56 townhouses a 2005 year built.

The dedication gives the public only that right-of-way and a 20-foot pedestrian easement, and no other street, alley, easement or common area. The pedestrian easement runs through the common ground south of the southern row, and the plat's south line follows the southerly edge of a 100-foot Gulf Power easement recorded at Official Records Book 148, page 99. Between the rows the drawing shows strips labeled variable-width utility and access easements, and general note 8 gives all lots cross access through the common areas, plus a drainage and utility easement over and under all of the common areas.

The county roll names the Old Bay Village owners association as owner of the 3.03-acre common area, and a separately named corporation, Old Bay Condominium Owners' Association, Inc., filed with the state on May 11, 2005, is listed as active. No record reviewed here shows whether a declaration of covenants was recorded for these lots or which association a given townhouse or unit belongs to, and the plat's statutory notice warns that restrictions not drawn on it may be found in the county's public records. Ask the seller and closing agent for any recorded declaration and each association's budget.

On the interactive zoning map the city links from its Zoning page, a lookup inside a townhouse lot and one inside the condominium parcel both show Residential, Office, Institutional, Village Residential (ROI-VR). That district's factsheet names permanent single-family detached homes as its purpose and lists multi-family attached dwellings only as a conditional use, while calling itself an excerpt not meant for zoning decisions. Before planning a rebuild or addition, ask the city's planning division how the existing buildings are classed.