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A hillside subdivision of 170 platted lots north of Blue Mountain Beach, standing roughly 31 to 55 feet above sea level, with state forest mapped against its edge and most of the plat, though not all of it, mapped outside the one percent annual chance floodplain.

2017

Year Built

No

Gulf Front

Year built, floor and unit figures are as published by the sources cited at the foot of this page. Confirm them against the association's own documents during diligence.

About Highland Parks

Highland Parks is a hillside address, and federal elevation data settles how much of one. Sampled on a grid across the plat, the ground runs from about 31 feet above sea level at the low corner to about 55 feet at the high one, while the crossing of County Road 83 and Scenic 30A, a little over half a mile south, measures at sea level. That fall explains the street names the developer chose, Gulfview and Emerald Beach, and it also explains why the flood map treats this ground differently from the beach blocks below. Read against the parcel outlines rather than against a point inside each one, the county's flood layer puts most of this plat in Zone X, outside the one percent annual chance floodplain, and runs a Zone A boundary across six lots at the Emerald Beach Circle and Emerald Beach Way end of the subdivision, every one of them carrying a finished house, so the designation is an address by address question here rather than a community wide one. The plat holds 170 lots across about 17.2 acres, 164 of them carrying a finished house on the county roll, with completion years running from 2011 to 2024 and clustering hard in the second half of the twenty tens. Heated living area averages roughly 2,538 square feet, so the houses are full sized on compact ground rather than cottage scaled. Two boundaries shape the setting more than any facility does. Point Washington State Forest is mapped hard against the subdivision's edge, which fixes what can happen on that side. And the county's adopted neighborhood plan overlays all stop short of it: the nearest, Blue Mountain Beach, ends about 2,265 feet away, so countywide rules govern here, including the South Walton area's 50 foot height limit.

HOA & Fees

The tax record names an association here but describes almost nothing about it. The roll carries common area parcels in this plat's own parcel identifier series, recorded to an owner carrying the Highland Parks name, and their legal description says only that they are all streets, common areas and the like. No land area and no building is carried on any of them, so the roll establishes that an association holds the streets and the common ground and stops there. What that association actually owns and maintains has to be read out of the recorded declaration and the plat rather than inferred from the roll. Ask for both, together with the current budget and the architectural standards, because on graded lots the exterior rules are what protect an outlook.

Rental Policy

Every home on this plat is a detached house, and that is what decides which half of Walton County's rental code reaches it. A house let for stays shorter than 30 days, on more than three occasions in a calendar year, becomes a short-term vacation rental in the county's terms and holds a certificate of its own that is renewed every year. Detached houses then pick up the life safety schedule as well: occupancy capped at one person for each 150 square feet, that figure posted inside where guests can read it, and an exterior sign no larger than 216 square inches carrying the certificate number and a 24 hour contact. None of that decides whether a given lot may be rented at all. The recorded covenants do, and they should be read for the specific address first.

  • Ground about 31 to 55 feet above sea level
  • State forest mapped against the plat edge
  • Zone X across the plat, with Zone A ground on six lots
  • Zoned Traditional Neighborhood Development

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Building Answers

Highland Parks FAQ

How high does Highland Parks actually stand?

Federal elevation data sampled across the plat returns roughly 31 feet above sea level at the low corner and about 55 feet at the high one. The crossing of County Road 83 and Scenic 30A, a little over half a mile to the south, measures at sea level, so the climb is genuine rather than a figure of speech.

Does an adopted neighborhood plan govern building here?

No. Walton County's neighborhood plan overlays are mapped parcel by parcel, and none of them reaches this plat. The closest, the Blue Mountain Beach plan, stops about 2,265 feet away. Building here follows the countywide rules, including the 50 foot height limit that applies across the South Walton planning area.

What sits against the subdivision's boundary?

Point Washington State Forest. The state's mapped managed area boundary runs right at the plat edge, which settles what can be built on that side without relying on anyone's promise about future construction elsewhere.

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