Sugar Sands Estates Homes for Sale

Living in Sugar Sands Estates

Sugar Sands Estates is one platted street of house lots on the east side of Sugar Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, which the county's 2020 staff report places about 2,800 feet south of US 98. Walton County's board approved the Sugar Sands Estates PUD on April 11, 2017 as 39 single-family homes on 19.61 acres, and the plat that followed resubdivides lots 23 and 24 of the Map of Santa Rosa Plantation. The ground carries Conservation Residential future land use and Conservation Residential zoning at two units per acre, and every house address sits on Sugar Sands Drive, a 40-foot right-of-way that closes in a cul-de-sac.

The largest area on the plat is not a house lot. Plat sheets the county board reviewed in February 2020 label a Primary Wetland Conservation Easement Area of 10.21 acres, and most lots on the north side of the road back onto its hatched 25-foot wetland buffer. The same sheets draw common areas holding stormwater ponds, a pond with its own shoreline buffer, and a recreation pool area. Their dedication gives no street or common area to the public; streets, easements, stormwater ponds and common areas are dedicated to the property owners association for maintenance purposes.

The state tax roll files all 39 lots as single-family homes, gives actual build years from 2020 through 2023, and records living areas of 2,235 to 2,634 square feet. Lots 20 through 28 at the end of Sugar Sands Drive were replatted as Sugar Sands Estates II, which went to the county board in April 2022; county staff described that replat as adjusting lot lines to make larger lots, and the Eglin reviewer noted the density stayed the same. County emergency management commented during plat review that the site appears to lie in Evacuation Zone C, and the replat staff report lists Regional Utilities for water and sewer.

The state corporate registry shows an active not-for-profit named Sugar Sands Estates Property Owners Association, filed October 14, 2019 as document N19000010858, while the plat's dedication names Sugar Sands Property Owners Association. The plat itself warns that restrictions not shown on it may sit in the county's public records, so pull those records along with the association's state filings before relying on either name.

• Recreation pool area platted as common ground