Paradise Retreat

Walton County returns one exact subdivision record named PARADISE RETREAT, object 532879 and family 30-2S-21-42790. That record fixes the guide to a specific Miramar Beach subdivision instead of a vacation-rental name, a generic paradise phrase, or another Florida corporation.

Recorded bylaws and the state corporation use Paradise Retreat at Miramar Beach. The County header uses the shorter Paradise Retreat. Matching subdivision family, street context, common parcel, corporate name, and official project records establish an alias relationship rather than two separate communities.

The official subdivision entry cites Plat Book 15, pages 72-72C, and current numbered legal descriptions repeatedly cite Paradise Retreat and page 72. Those references are stable starting points for title and survey work. They do not prove a structure, condition, occupancy, rental use, or current private right.

The recorded family contains 121 entries and 121 distinct parcel numbers. One hundred twenty are numbered residential parcels and one is a separate common parcel. Those public records identify the subdivision scope, but they are not automatically homes, occupied properties, owners, association members, or listings.

The County subdivision entry carries a 120 marker, and today's parcel family contains 120 numbered identifiers. That agreement supports the current subdivision scale. They remain current numbered parcel records rather than a guarantee of 120 original lots, completed houses, active rentals, or transferable interests.

Parcel suffixes form current sequences A1-22, B1-42, C1-40, and D1-16, totaling 120. This block structure is more precise than inferring scope from addresses. Each key still requires its complete legal description, deed, title work, survey, permit history, and inspection.

The header's truncated legal snippet says Block A 1-22 and Block B 1-43, while the current family has B1-42. The sources can differ because of later parcel history, truncation, or another record issue, but the guide does not guess. It preserves both signals and avoids a fabricated original roster.

Parcel 30-2S-21-42790-000-00A0 is classified RES COMMON. Its legal lines reference streets, common areas, and limited common areas shown on the Paradise plat. That establishes a current administrative key, not ownership quality, maintenance scope, public access, amenities, insurance, or individual rights.

Among the 120 numbered rows, 56 carry positive ACRES values and 64 carry zero. The common key's legal ACRES is zero while the service also exposes a GIS-calculated area. Summing incomplete legal fields or treating GIS area as surveyed acreage would manufacture precision, so no project total is published.

The County address records contain 122 entries across 121 parcel identifiers. Every numbered parcel has one entry, while the common parcel has two temporary-pole address entries with NumberUnits zero. That explains the difference without turning an extra service point into another home, lot, entrance, or facility.

After excluding the two common temporary-pole rows, 120 numbered addresses use Sandy Cay Drive, Secret Harbor Drive, or Marigot Bay Circle. All identify Miramar Beach and ZIP 32550. The guide uses Sandy Cay Drive as a street-level orientation rather than selecting a private residence.

The numbered address rows currently carry NumberUnits one, while the two common temporary-pole rows carry zero. These are address-service attributes, not conclusive counts of buildings, legal dwellings, households, occupancy, rental licenses, or insurable structures. Property records and inspections must answer those questions.

The current header says RECD 11/15/03, while a 2022 County staff report says Paradise Retreat was platted November 3, 2003. The page does not collapse recording and platting language into one founding, construction, completion, or occupancy date. The recorded plat remains the controlling research route.

Visually reviewed September 8, 2009 minutes say the abandonment petition covered Sandy Cay Drive, Secret Harbor Drive, and Marigot Bay Circle. It ran between old and new U.S. 98 and was intended to let the homeowners association privatize the subdivision streets under the cited Florida statute.

The same minutes record a motion approving the Paradise Retreat abandonment petition as presented in the staff report, with four ayes and no nays. That is a dated governmental action, not a present title opinion. Current road ownership, easements, maintenance, emergency access, and user rights still need document review.

The visually reviewed 2022 report says the County Commission approved abandonment of Sandy Cay Drive through Resolution 2010-06 on January 12, 2010. It also says the HOA subsequently installed the north-entrance gate. These official chronology facts do not guarantee today's gate operation, credentials, staffing, access, or cost.

Project MIN22-000039 concerned a proposed landscape plan on about 0.45 acre north of the subdivision's north gate. The staff report repeatedly says it was a landscape plan only. Its zoning, area, access, and review fields concern that application site, not every Paradise Retreat parcel.

The June 2022 report listed the Technical Review Committee meeting as scheduled, marked comprehensive-plan and code consistency no at that stage, and said comments needed resolution. The page therefore does not represent the landscaping as approved, installed, current, or evidence of broader neighborhood condition.

Florida's Division of Corporations lists PARADISE RETREAT AT MIRAMAR BEACH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., document N02000002001, as active and filed March 13, 2002. That official record confirms entity identity. It does not prove the current declaration chain, financial condition, management quality, or parcel obligations.

The bylaws recorded at CFN 789611, Official Records Book 2561 page 905 define the association and expressly refer property and membership definitions to the declaration. That makes the declaration chain essential. The bylaws alone cannot establish current coverage, voting, access, assessments, rentals, insurance, or transfer terms.

Commercial pages advertise gates and beach access, but no current title instrument or complete association disclosure was obtained to prove parcel-specific rights. The Atlas therefore guarantees no beach easement, pool, gate privilege, parking, recreation, pet right, or service. Every claimed benefit needs written current evidence.

Walton County operates a vacation-rental registration program, but registration does not decide parcel eligibility or private permission. Zoning, state licensing, declarations, amendments, association rules, parking, occupancy, safety, taxes, insurance, prior approvals, and enforcement history must be checked for the selected property.

County geometry record 532879 spans longitudes -86.3960602446898 to -86.3926299273083 and latitudes 30.3793860799972 to 30.3851103181694. Its six-decimal bounding-box midpoint is -86.394345, 30.382248, matching the map marker, and the current spatial record shows the same geometry.

A precise point and exact County intersection do not turn the source polygon into a legal boundary. The page publishes no outline, parcel union, road line, gate location, beach route, survey monument, title line, flood result, zoning determination, permit conclusion, or development entitlement.

Walton County provides current planning, floodplain, and permit research routes. This guide assigns no neighborhood-wide zoning label, flood zone, elevation, wetland condition, utility conclusion, permit status, insurance result, or buildable envelope. The selected address and intended use require current agency and professional review.

Title, condition, rights, costs, rentals, flood, permits, insurance, and access remain transaction work.