Gulf Shore Manor Homes for Sale

Living in Gulf Shore Manor

Gulf Shore Manor is one of the older recordings on this stretch, and the county's file says so in the owners' own words: when residents opened a neighborhood planning process in February 2020, the association president's stated aims included preserving the intent of the original plat from 1925, which he told the county is still referred to in warranty deeds and court actions. The tax roll agrees about the age and then complicates it. The oldest structure standing under this name went up in 1929 on San Juan Avenue, but only thirteen built parcels predate 1990, sixty-seven were finished in 2010 or later, and seventy of the two hundred and eight parcels carry no building at all. Twenty-three parcels are classed as mobile homes. So this is an old plat holding mostly recent construction, over a range wider than the corridor's reputation suggests: a median near 1,825 square feet of living area, and sixteen houses at or above 4,000. Position is unusually tidy. Every parcel boundary in the plat falls north of County Highway 30A, without a single exception, and the neighborhood sits close to a mile from a coastal dune lake in either direction, Western Lake about 5,140 feet west and Eastern Lake about 5,340 feet east, touching neither one. The Seaside plat begins about three quarters of a mile west of the nearest lot here. The Gulf lies roughly 760 feet south across the highway, reached at Santa Clara Regional Beach Access, one of Walton County's regional accesses, at 3468 East County Highway 30A. Ground reads about 29 feet on the federal elevation service, and every parcel sampled falls in Zone X, the minimal flood hazard category, which is not the usual answer this close to the water. Authority is the part to read slowly. No adopted overlay governs this plat, because the process residents began in 2020 never produced one. What does apply is the county's general code, the Coastal Building Zone standards that reach lots at the dune line, and, by the association's account to the county, a Residential Preservation Area designation on the county's future land use map, a category the county's adopted plans elsewhere describe as barring multi-family and non-residential development and further subdivision. Confirm that designation for a specific parcel rather than taking it from a meeting summary.

• Every parcel north of County Highway 30A
• About a mile from Western Lake and from Eastern Lake
• Santa Clara Regional Beach Access on 30A
• Seaside plat about three quarters of a mile west