Serenity at Dune Allen Homes for Sale

About Serenity at Dune Allen

Serenity at Dune Allen is an exercise in fitting a great deal onto very little. The county roll records 87 lots across roughly 6.2 acres, which works out near 3,103 square feet of land apiece, and yet heated living area on those lots averages about 2,511 square feet. That ratio, a full sized house on a footprint closer to a courtyard, is the community's defining fact and it follows directly from the zoning: Walton County places this plat in Neighborhood Infill under Ordinance 2018-29, adopted 11 December 2018, a district it applies sparingly and does not apply to the older subdivisions immediately around it. Read by share of ground across whole parcel outlines rather than at lot centers, all 88 parcels of the plat are majority Neighborhood Infill and none holds as much as one percent of a second district, so on this plat the community wide zoning answer genuinely holds. Every one of the 87 lots carries a finished house, unusual on a coast where vacant lots are common, and the completion years tell a two stage story rather than the single recent one the marketing suggests: they run from 2011 to 2024, with six houses finished before 2015, 27 between 2015 and 2019, and 54 from 2020 onward. What does not hold plat wide is the ground. Measured against whole parcel outlines, national wetlands mapping reaches onto the plat rather than stopping short of it, holding freshwater forested and shrub ground on three lots at the south end of Dolphin Drive and on the association's commons parcel, and covering about 45 percent of one of those lots. Flood mapping follows the same line: the same three Dolphin Drive lots hold Zone A ground, between about 17 and 45 percent of each, and the commons parcel holds Zone A and a little Zone AE, while five lots on Charming Way hold ground in the 0.2 percent annual chance band and the remaining 79 parcels are wholly Zone X. Not one of the affected parcels sits wholly inside a single flood polygon, and Zone A here is mapped with no published base flood elevation, so an elevation certificate rather than the map is what settles those addresses. The county's 300 foot coastal dune lake protection buffer around Lake Allen covers no parcel of the plat but comes within about 36 feet of its edge and about 200 feet of the nearest lot, and the Beach Highland neighborhood plan overlay stops about 990 feet short, so that adopted plan governs the ground nearby but not this ground. No incorporated place reaches the plat either: each of the 88 outlines, tested one at a time, comes back with nothing at all, and Santa Rosa Beach here is a postal name rather than a city.

• 87 lots on about 6.2 acres, all of them built
• Zoned Neighborhood Infill under Ordinance 2018-29
• Houses averaging about 2,511 square feet of heated area
• Zone A flood ground and mapped wetland on three Dolphin Drive lots, none of the rest
• State coastal construction control line about 1,045 feet south of the plat