Destin West Beach & Bay Resort Condos for Sale

About Destin West Beach & Bay Resort

One resort name covers six separate condominium filings on the Okaloosa County roll, and the differences between them are the whole story. The campus carries a Fort Walton Beach postal address yet lies in unincorporated Okaloosa County, and the Fort Walton Beach area guide describes the town around it. On the beach side, Destin West Beach & Bay Resort carries a 2002 year built with a header record reading 96 units at 1517 Miracle Strip Parkway, and Gulf Side Villas carries 2006 with a header reading 35. Across the highway on the bay side sit Pelican and Sandpiper, both 2004 with headers reading 48 units each, then Heron with 54 and Osprey with 37, both 2006. That is four completion years, six declarations and roughly 318 recorded units under a single trading name. Sales from all six land in one pool on the Destin West Beach & Bay Resort market page, so a figure there blends beach and bay units built in different years. Frontage differs by half as well, and it is the fact most often stated too broadly about this resort. Gulf frontage here is not a property of the campus; it belongs to the beach side of the highway only. The 3.29 acre beach-side parcel reaches the Gulf. The state's coastal construction control line, which by law tracks the landward limit of the beach and dune system, crosses through this parcel rather than stopping at its edge, and no other owner is recorded on the county roll between this filing and the water. It carries 96 units, and Gulf Side Villas stands on the same side with 35 more, though its own 0.17 acre parcel stops short of the sand and sits at the inland end of that block. That is 131 of the 318 units those six header records count. The other 187, in Pelican, Sandpiper, Heron and Osprey, sit across Miracle Strip Parkway with no Gulf frontage of any kind; on that side the resort holds a 4.98 acre Santa Rosa Island parcel of residential common area running north to water outside the reach of the county's own mapped Santa Rosa Sound, whose polygon ends about seven tenths of a mile west of here, and the county's hydrography layer names no other water body at this site. The two halves stand about 200 feet apart across the highway at their closest, measured parcel to parcel. Neither yes nor no answers the frontage question for the whole resort; the answer turns on which side of the highway a unit stands. That is also why a Destin West listing on the Fort Walton Beach condo index is best set beside neighbors on its own side of the road, since it may come from any of the six filings.

• Six separately recorded condominiums under one resort name
• Gulf frontage on the beach side only, reaching 131 of 318 units
• Bay-side common area of 4.98 acres on water beyond the county's mapped Santa Rosa Sound
• Roughly 318 recorded units completed between 2002 and 2006
• B-3 island zoning under the county covenants