Posts in category 'Communities'

Three public efforts now protect the Flagler Beach shoreline: a buried concrete seawall that the Florida Department of Transportation built to keep State Road A1A from washing out, a beach and dune project run through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and state-funded dune work between them. All three exist because A1A kept failing in storms, and a buyer near the ocean still has to check the flood zone, insurance and lot lines for the specific parcel. If you are shopping for Flagler Beach homes for sale, you will hear about these projects in open houses and on listing sheets, and it helps to know what they do and what they leave alone.

This guide is about the shoreline work itself. It covers who built what, where ea...

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A condo in Flagler Beach comes with two files. One belongs to the building, and it holds the milestone inspection, the reserve study and the budget. The other belongs to the city, and it holds the flood rules, the coastal rules and the process for what happens when a building fails. Most buyers read the first file and never open the second. If you are weighing Flagler Beach homes for sale that are part of a condominium association, read both before you write an offer.

This guide stays local. The statewide condo rules are covered in our guide to buying a condo in Florida under the new condo laws, so we...

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Ormond Beach has three different kinds of golf community: one where the course is open to the public, one with a private club you may or may not have to join, and one whose course closed in 2018 and is being turned into a neighborhood of new homes. That difference decides what you pay each month, what you can use, and what your fairway view is attached to. If you are browsing Ormond Beach homes for sale and keep landing on a fairway view, the first job is to learn what that view is attached to.

This guide does not rank courses or tell you which one to like. It shows you how to compare the golf communities in town on paper, using what each one publishes about itself and what Florida law makes the seller hand you. For...

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A dock and a seawall come with a Flagler Beach waterfront home as two separate pieces of property that carry their own rules, their own permits and their own insurance gaps. Buyers tend to treat them as scenery. The city's code treats them as regulated structures, and the state treats the water underneath them as public land. If you are looking at homes for sale in Flagler Beach that sit on a canal or along the Intracoastal Waterway, this is the part of the file worth reading before the inspection report arrives.

This guide stays inside the city limits and inside the paperwork. It uses the City of Flagler Beach Code of Ordinances (Chapter 22, Watercraft and Waterways, and the Land Development Regulations in Appendix...

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You cannot assume you can rent out a Flagler Beach house by the week just because the street is full of rentals. The city allows nightly and weekly rentals only in some zoning districts, and a home sitting in the wrong one needs a documented history from before 2008 to qualify. If you are looking at Flagler Beach homes for sale with a vacation rental in mind, the zoning question comes before the price question.

Three layers of rules sit on top of each other here. The City of Flagler Beach has its own code for homes inside city limits. Flagler County has a separate code for unincorporated areas. The State of Florida licenses the lodging itself and limits what a local government can do. Then a homeowners association o...

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Flagler Beach caps a roof at 35 feet above finished grade, and the way the city measures that number matters more than the number itself. Most of what makes the town look the way it does comes from a short list of rules in the city's Land Development Regulations. This guide walks through them in plain terms, so you can read a house, a lot or a listing and know what is allowed before you fall for it. If you are still browsing, our current Flagler Beach homes for sale are a good place to put these rules to work.

Everything here comes from the city's code of ordinances as posted online, Appendix A, the Land Development Regulations, plus the city's planning and building page. Codes change, and the height section itself...

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