Falcon Ridge Homes for Sale

Living in Falcon Ridge

Falcon Ridge is small enough to read one parcel at a time. The county parcel map draws its 1.53 acres as twenty records: nineteen homes classed SFR/TOWNHOUSE and a single 0.96-acre parcel classed RES COMMON AREA. That common parcel is one outline with three openings cut into it, and each opening holds a run of home parcels drawn edge to edge, four with a county build year of 1985, four of 1988 and eleven of 1992.

The runs were recorded under different schemes. The 1985 and 1988 homes are described as UNIT 1 through UNIT 8, with no lot numbers at all. Each 1992 home is described instead as a stretch of numbered plat lots: the one at 6 Falcon Ridge Lane is all of lots 73 through 87 plus a strip off lot 88, and the numbering climbs to lot 153. House numbers follow neither scheme, since UNIT 1 is 21 Falcon Ridge Lane and UNIT 5 is 14. On the state roll each of the nineteen homes has a numbered address in ZIP 32547, and the common parcel has none.

Those 32547 addresses do not tell a buyer which government answers for Falcon Ridge. The county's city-limit map leaves the whole plat outside every incorporated boundary, about 1,550 feet from the nearest Fort Walton Beach line, which leaves land-use decisions with Okaloosa County. County zoning holds all twenty parcels, the common ground included, entirely in R-2. R-1 meets the plat along its west edge and R-3 along its east edge, while the ground beyond its north and south edges is R-2 as well.

Falcon Ridge Lane itself is missing from the county's maintained-road layer, although James Lee Road, Woodrow Street NE and Newcastle Circle nearby are on it. Settle who holds title to the lane, and who repairs it, before closing. On the national flood map each of the twenty parcels lies wholly inside a Zone X area of minimal flood hazard, and the county's copy of the map agrees; neither map measures the elevation or drainage of a particular home.