Botany Bayou Homes for Sale

Living in Botany Bayou

Botany Bayou's houses carry Santa Rosa Beach addresses in Walton County, laid out on a single-family plat the county clerk recorded on July 10, 2001, at Plat Book 14, Page 82. The plat calls itself a replat of Lots 51 and 52 and parts of Lots 43 through 46 of Santa Rosa Plantation, an earlier plat in Plat Book 2, Page 4, taking the portions lying west of Hewett Bayou in Section 19, Township 2 South, Range 20 West. It draws 71 numbered lots in Blocks A and B with retention and common areas, and it shows Botany Boulevard entering on its west line from the road it names Los Roblas Grande Drive. Botany Boulevard and Grand Flora Way are labeled private roads, and county address records also place houses on Caribea Circle.

A declaration of covenants recorded July 12, 2001, at Official Records Book 2337, Page 1921, binds Lots 1 through 71 and provides for an owners' association, Botany Bayou Homeowners' Association. It requires side-entry garages except on lots it lists by number, keeps boats out of front yards, and bars removing magnolia, hickory, oak or longleaf pine trees without approval. It refers to a common-area dock where a member may tie up a personal watercraft for up to 48 consecutive hours and 72 hours a week, though no record read shows that dock built, and it assigns the association upkeep of the common property, including roads, lift stations, and water and sewer lines. One parcel on the county roll, described as all common areas shown on the Botany Bayou plat, carries the association as its owner of record, and a 2018 amendment makes whoever takes title to a lot, including through foreclosure, pay the association a transfer contribution that may rise by no more than ten percent a year, for capital expenses that include the pool, other amenities and the drainage system.

Houses went up over two decades. The state's 2026 parcel roll dates them from 2003 to 2024, most finished by 2009, and lists two lots with no building. On that roll the lots the plat draws down to the bayou hold about 21,000 to 44,000 square feet of land and houses of about 4,200 to 6,900 square feet, while interior lots hold about 9,000 to 23,000 square feet, with houses of about 2,600 to 4,700. The declaration binds the lots until January 1, 2020 and then renews itself for successive ten-year periods unless a majority of record owners votes to end it. The plat carries an affidavit of error recorded May 17, 2002 (Official Records Book 2404, page 1262) correcting dimensions on nine lots and a cul-de-sac right-of-way, and a 2020 First Amendment plat (Plat Book 23, page 21) replatted Lots 29 and 30; its Lot 2 is the parcel at 510 Botany Boulevard, while the county roll lists no parcel for Lot 28 and none for the amendment's Lot 1. On FEMA's national flood layer, 48 of the 69 lot parcels hold no mapped hazard ground, seven interior lots (17 to 20 and 25 to 27) hold under 10 percent Zone AE, and the waterfront lots, 31 through 43, hold roughly a third to four fifths by sampled area. For any lot, read the plat with its affidavit, the declaration with its amendments, and the association's posted rules before writing an offer.

• Community pool
• Common-area dock for owners' watercraft