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A 147 lot plat behind Blue Mountain Beach that shares a boundary line with Point Washington State Forest on the north and Grayton Beach State Park on the east, with a large share of its lots holding ground inside the county's coastal dune lake protection zone around Big Redfish Lake.

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2018

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About Lakeside at Blue Mountain Beach

Lakeside at Blue Mountain Beach is named for water the county actually maps, and the mapping is the story. Big Redfish Lake, a coastal dune lake, comes within about a foot of the plat's eastern boundary, and Walton County's 300 foot protection zone around that lake reaches into a large share of the community's lots, most of them already built on. Read against the parcel outlines rather than against a point inside each one, that zone holds ground on substantially more lots than a per point reading of the same layer returns, so treat it as a question for the specific address and not as a community wide answer. That zone is the instrument doing the work here, and it is a regulation rather than a promise: it governs what may be done near the lake, and it does not close the ground. Two public boundaries account for the rest of the edge. The Point Washington State Forest line, held by the state and managed by the Florida Forest Service, runs along the plat's northern side, and the Grayton Beach State Park line, managed by the state's Division of Recreation and Parks, comes within about two feet on the east. Public ownership on two sides is worth far more to a buyer than any claim about a view, but it reaches north and east only, and 29 lots inside this plat are still vacant on the county roll. The rest of the ground varies more than the streets suggest. Flood mapping is the clearest case: read parcel outline by parcel outline, 40 of these lots hold ground in a special flood hazard area, some of it Zone A and some of it Zone AE at a base flood elevation of 9 feet, and every one of the 40 is crossed by the boundary rather than sitting wholly on one side of it. Zoning splits as well, across three districts rather than the one the streets suggest, with Conservation reaching into 18 lots the plat gives no sign of.

HOA & Fees

Read this association's obligations against the county's protection mapping, not against the streetscape. A large share of the lots hold ground inside a mapped 300 foot zone around a coastal dune lake, and the association itself is recorded on two parcels here, one described as all streets and common areas and one as a platted lot of about 3,963 square feet, neither carrying a building on the roll. So ask three things in writing: which tracts the association holds along the lake and the state boundaries, what the declaration requires it to do there, and how that work is funded while 29 lots remain unbuilt and their assessments have not yet arrived.

Rental Policy

A house here that takes guests needs a Walton County short-term vacation rental certificate, renewed each year, and the county sizes the practical details to the certified occupancy rather than to the house. Waste capacity is one of them: the ordinance requires 35 gallons of container capacity for every four occupants certified, rounded up, which on the larger plans on this plat, where heated living area reaches 4,703 square feet, becomes a real storage and screening question on a small lot. Whether a particular cottage may be rented at all is decided by the recorded covenants rather than by the county, so read those for the specific address before anything else.

  • Point Washington State Forest along the northern plat line
  • Grayton Beach State Park within about two feet on the east
  • Big Redfish Lake at the eastern boundary
  • Three zoning districts across one plat, not one

Live Inventory

Active Listings at Lakeside at Blue Mountain Beach

LuxuryShort-term rental potential

$1,700,000

461 Matt's Way

Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

4 bd 4 ba 2,850 sqft
Short-term rental potential

$1,350,000

20 Ashley Lane

Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

4 bd 4 ba 2,244 sqft
LuxuryShort-term rental potential

$1,750,000

339 Matts Way

Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

4 bd 5 ba 2,631 sqft
Price ReducedLuxuryShort-term rental potential

$1,649,999

194 Cabana Trail

Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

4 bd 5 ba 2,468 sqft
Price ReducedLuxuryShort-term rental potential

$1,699,000

59 Ashley Lane

Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

4 bd 4 ba 2,648 sqft

The short-term rental badge above is not a permission of record. It reflects the MLS short-term-rental field where a listing discloses one, and otherwise where the home sits. Confirm the association's current rules and the local registration requirement before relying on it.

Building Answers

Lakeside at Blue Mountain Beach FAQ

What actually stands between this plat and new construction on its edges?

Two state boundaries and one county rule, and it is worth being exact about each. Point Washington State Forest, managed by the Florida Forest Service, shares the northern line. Grayton Beach State Park, managed by the state's Division of Recreation and Parks, comes within about two feet on the east. Those are public ownership rather than a covenant, and they cover north and east only. The county's 300 foot coastal dune lake protection zone reaches ground on a large share of the lots, but it regulates work near the water rather than forbidding it. Nothing in the record promises any particular outlook, and 29 lots inside the plat itself are still unbuilt.

How much of Lakeside at Blue Mountain Beach sits in the dune lake protection zone?

A large share of it, and the honest answer is that the number depends on how the question is asked. The zone is 300 feet wide, the lake reaches to within about a foot of the plat's eastern boundary, and reading the county's buffer against whole parcel outlines puts ground inside it on substantially more lots, built and vacant both, than reading it against a single point inside each parcel does. The only answer that will hold at closing is the one drawn for the specific parcel, so ask for it that way.

Do all these lots carry the same flood and zoning answer?

No, and the spread is wider than the streets suggest. Read outline by outline rather than point by point, 40 of the lots hold ground in a special flood hazard area, Zone A on some and Zone AE at a base flood elevation of 9 feet on others, and all 40 are crossed by the boundary rather than sitting wholly inside or outside it. Zoning splits three ways as well: Traditional Neighborhood Development over most of the plat, Village Mixed Use over part of it, and Conservation reaching into 18 lots along one edge, all under Ordinance 2018-29. Both answers have to be pulled for the individual parcel.

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