Draper Lake Coastal Village Homes for Sale

Living in Draper Lake Coastal Village

Draper Lake Coastal Village was planned around water rather than around road frontage. The association describes 96 single family lots on about 40 acres across two wooded peninsulas divided by a tributary of Draper Lake and stitched back together by footbridges and trails, laid out in partnership with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company under a regulating plan with its own architectural, urban and street standards. Scenic 30A runs along the northern edge, close enough that the northernmost addressed site sits roughly 60 feet from the highway and the middle of the village about 470 feet from it, while the lake occupies the ground on the other side. Draper Lake is one of the fifteen named coastal dune lakes in South Walton, about 38 acres in the federal hydrography record, which makes it larger than either Redfish lake to the east; Walton County's trail guide notes the covered bridge that carries the Timpoochee Trail across it between the fourth and fifth mileposts. The shared amenities face the water instead of a beach: two pools, boathouses that reach the lake, a 48 foot observation tower, and pedestrian trails linking the greenway through the property. Slips at the boathouses go to owners one apiece on a first-come basis, carry an annual charge, and do not pass with a sale. Owners also hold a beach cabana with its own parking, reached on foot or by bicycle through the west gates at Betty Street and Buddy Street; the nearest public alternative is the county's Gulfview Heights regional access, a little over four tenths of a mile off. What governs building here is unusually documented for a village this size. New construction and modifications go before a town architect under a published design code, approvals lapse after eighteen months if nothing is built, and every residential building must carry a fire sprinkler system. Above that private layer sits the county's own zoning, and it runs in the same direction: Walton County's own zoning map places the village under an adopted Traditional Neighborhood Development district, county Ordinance 2018-29, adopted December 2018, the public zoning counterpart to the private regulating plan rather than a separate or conflicting rule; the county's planning overlay layer and its municipality layer both return nothing at this ground, confirming the village sits on unincorporated land with no additional overlay district layered on top. Separately, Walton County maps a 300 foot band inland of Draper Lake's high water line under its resource protection standards, and 40 of the 61 dwelling sites the county has addressed inside this village fall within it, which is where a land clearing permit and a bar on shoreline armoring begin. Cedar siding and wood roofing carry the architectural theme the association traces to a 1930s landowner's family house at the lake.

• Boathouses on Draper Lake with owner slips
• 48 foot observation tower and two community pools
• Footbridges and trails linking two peninsulas
• Owners' beach cabana with parking, reached through the west gates