Gulf Place Homes for Sale

Living in Gulf Place

Gulf Place was laid out as a small town rather than as a subdivision, and Walton County's mile-by-mile guide to the Timpoochee Trail treats it that way: at the three-mile marker the guide finds a large group of shops and restaurants where 30A meets 393, on a ride whose opening miles otherwise offer a gas station, a mini-mart and a short list of places to eat. Residences sit over working shopfronts around an open green, with galleries and live music among what the county tourism department names at the town center. Directly opposite, on the Gulf side of the road, is the Ed Walline Regional Beach Access. The county's access chart lists it as access 39 at 4447 West County Highway 30A with 39 parking spaces, permits special events and bonfires there, and does not hold small events to the 30 attendee ceiling several nearby accesses carry; no other county lot on this end of the corridor is larger, and the county's mapped access layer carries seven accesses within two miles of it with no parking at all. The trail guide adds that the path changes sides of the road at that point and describes a viewing tower, restrooms and fountains, and the tourism department records lifeguards in season. What the single name covers is wider than the storefronts. Florida's corporate registry carries separately chartered, currently active owners associations for the Caribbean, Cabanas, Courtyard, Town Center, Town Center East, Townhomes and Residences sections, with two community level bodies above them, the earliest of the group filed in 1994 and the most recent in 2021. Which of those a given address answers to decides its documents, its dues and its rules before anything else does. Two of the county's own published lists settle the public side of these parcels, and they point in opposite directions. No adopted neighborhood plan overlay reaches here, which is worth knowing because the county's published list of the eight it has adopted includes Blue Mountain Beach a short ride east. What does reach these parcels is the C.R. 30-A Scenic Corridor, which takes in every parcel adjacent to C.R. 30-A along with C.R. 393, and whose submittal requirements and development standards sit in Chapter 13 of the Land Development Code. The county states plainly that projects inside that corridor are not required to obtain Design Review Board approval, unlike projects along the U.S. Highway 98 and 331 corridor.

• Ed Walline Regional Beach Access opposite, 39 county parking spaces
• Shops, restaurants and galleries at street level
• Open green used for live music and events
• Timpoochee Trail passing the front at the three-mile marker