Tranquility By The Bay Homes for Sale

Living in Tranquility By The Bay

With the final plat of Tranquility By The Bay before them on August 9, 2005, Walton County's commissioners voted 5 to 0 to approve its final order for recording, conditions included. The county's growth management and planning director had told them the plat met all minimal technical standards of the Land Development Code and Comprehensive Plan, and that both staff and the Planning Commission recommended approval. The land use items at that hearing began with an agreement covering the development's conditions, the first of which was moving Nursery Road. One commissioner recalled that the board had asked the developer to meet with residents and have them sign off on the development order; the applicant's attorney did not recall being told to get neighbors to sign off, but assured the commissioner he would meet with two people the minutes name to review the order before any clearing took place.

Today the county parcel file carries fifteen lots, every one of them citing Plat Book 16, page 94, and one further parcel whose legal description covers all streets, common areas and limited common areas as described on that plat. The state's 2026 tax roll gives lots 1 through 7 and lot 15 Tranquility Lane addresses and lots 8 through 14 Tranquility Court addresses, codes each lot as a single-family home with one building, and places all of them in Santa Rosa Beach, ZIP 32459. The plat itself, a replat of Lot 62 of the Santa Rosa Plantation Company Subdivision covering 9.76 acres, was filed on August 11, 2005, and its dedication names Tranquility By The Bay Homeowners Association, Inc. as recipient of the streets and common areas.

The houses came more than ten years after the plat vote. The 2026 roll dates all seven Court houses and the lot 15 house on the Lane to 2016, lots 1 through 5 and lot 7 to 2017, and lot 6 alone to 2021. Living area on the roll runs from about 1,800 to about 2,690 square feet. Land area differs between two county-sourced figures: the roll gives the lots about 4,450 to about 6,530 square feet, and the lot outlines drawn in the county parcel file measure the same, while the county's separate acreage field lists them at 0.08 to about 0.11 acre in a different order by size, so measure a lot from the recorded plat or a survey.

Flood is the larger question for these lots. The two flood layers, FEMA's national one and the county's own, tell the same story by lot: lots 1 through 11 and 15 have ground in Zone AE at a base flood elevation of 7 feet, and lots 12, 13 and 14 do not, sitting only in the shaded 0.2 percent annual chance area. By sampling, the Zone AE share runs from about 8 percent of lot 15 to about 90 percent of lot 2, and nine lots are at least half Zone AE. Zone AE also reaches pieces of the common-area parcel. Neither layer fixes insurance terms or a floor height, so put the exact lot to the county floodplain manager.