Pine Ridge Trace Homes for Sale

Living in Pine Ridge Trace

Pine Ridge Trace entered the Okaloosa County plat books in 1983 at Plat Book 7, pages 60 and 61, on two sheets whose title block calls it a townhome development. Choctaw Engineering of Fort Walton Beach dated the drawings October 1981, and the county engineer, the county planning commission and the county commission signed off between that October and April 1983. The boundary description closes on 18.54 acres, and its final call follows the line the second sheet labels Destin Airport Property. Inside, the plat numbers lots 1 through 176, many only 22 feet wide, on streets it names Pine Ridge Trace, Bayou Drive, Trail Court, Log Place, Cord Place, Timber Court, Knots Place, Wedge Court and Crest Place.

Three replats, each approved by the Destin planning commission and city council and each titled a planned unit development, later redrew parts of that plan as blocks of wider lots. Plat Book 12, page 14, filed in February 1990, turned original lots 18 through 27, 40 through 57 and 89 through 100 into blocks A through E. Plat Book 12, page 24, filed that June, did the same for lots 76 through 80 and 84 through 88 as blocks F and G, and Plat Book 13, page 46, filed in October 1992, took in lots 28 through 35 and 101 through 123. The retired lot numbers still print beneath the new lines, usually two of them under each new lot.

The county property roll keeps the two plans apart. Parcels it describes by Unit number on the 1983 plat are classed as townhouses, with actual build years of 1983 to 1985 along Bayou Drive, Timber Court and Knots Place, and 1993 or 1994 for the townhouses on Wedge Court and Crest Place. Parcels described by lot and block on a replat are classed single family and date from 1990 to 1996. The county's address records place every one of them at a Destin 32541 address, and FEMA's flood map puts all 134 parcels in Zone X, minimal flood hazard, which describes the ground and says nothing about one house's elevation or insurance.

The 1983 sheets and the replats draw strips labeled Environmental Preservation Area, one of them 30 feet deep and about 458 feet long between block C of the first replat and the airport line. A 5 foot pedestrian easement along each rear lot line is noted on the 1983 sheet and on the replats at Plat Book 12, page 14 and Plat Book 13, page 46; the June 1990 sheet at page 24 carries no such note. Each replat also warns that restrictions it does not show may sit elsewhere in the county's public records, so the plat a legal description names is the first document to pull.