Unofficial Meeting of Daughette Area

[scooterbug44]

Could you post the link please?

 

[greenroomsurfer]

It's not on the Sun link. I'm guessing that they will have a little blurb retracting the article next week.

 

[Em]

Could you post the link please?

From www.WaltonSun.com

Subdivision meeting brings questions about future seclusion and peace



Tom Stein, a long-time resident, developer and businessman of Daugette Subdivision conducted an informal community meeting at the Coastal Branch Library on May 11. The subdivision is located on Bay Drive and sits quietly on Choctawhatchee Bay.
Residents were informed as to possible commercial building and development on Bay Drive in the future. Also announced were the plans for a marina on the canal system that winds around the small vicinity.
Plans and architectural renderings were shared with neighborhood residents, along with explanations on subdivision covenants and restrictions for commercial endeavors. A poll was taken by paper vote as to whether residents approved or disapproved of the proposals. The results were not announced.
Tom Padgett, project chairman, also reviewed the canal dredging process. Padgett was the quiet hero who endured the long process of acquiring dredge permits.
After-meeting interviews with residents seemed more negative than positive.
?Soon we will have enough commercial locations available on Highway 98 not two miles up the road. Why bother the neighborhood tranquility. We are surrounded and protected by a state forest. Now a developer wants to invade this area,? said a lady who said she resided in the subdivision.
A canal property homeowner was more adamant. ?I promised money for our canal system to be improved for our private waterfront homes; I was not told that a for-profi t commercial marina would evolve and benefi t from my contribution. Something is wrong about this whole commercial situation.?
?It seems that an offi ce building has already invaded a residential street at this time and I see now that we had better organize and be on our guard for protecting our small bit of paradise in the coming future,? said another individual during the questioning.
Another disagreed. ?It?s OK as long as it is just daytime professional offices and not bars, banging machine shops, or all night quick stops. It?s already been platted for small impact business activity. One business now has vehicles parking out into Bay Drive and it?s dangerous. Off street parking will be the issue.?
?If it wasn?t for Tom Stein and his ?Landing? there would have not been a place as a staging area for the canal dredging operation and probably would have cost us more for the canal clean-up,? volunteered a resident.
Stein announced that the next community meeting is to be in the fall, along with elections. A crawfi sh boil for the residents followed the meeting at Stein?s office building in Daugette subdivision.
The hamlet of Daugette was founded in 1957, over 50 years ago, and now it comes down to how you feel about the future of the small community on the bay.
Send me your comments here at the Walton Sun and I?ll post them in future articles about the preservation of our villages that dot South Walton?s Choctawhatchee Bay. We must be diligent about any intrusion in residential areas. There seems to be more than enough commercial establishments already for sale or lease.
Small residential communities such as Daugette should be able to guide their future by their Homeowner Associations and the majority vote. Our commissioners must then listen to them and not to a high-powered developer attorney. Thankfully, Stein and Padgett are concerned about the small bay community and will call for the new election of officers for the Daugette Homeowners in the fall. That could be the most important meeting of Daugette?s future.
The tourists who visit South Walton go back home to their quiet neighborhoods. Where do we, who work and live here full time, go for rest? We deserve the same community protection for our families and just plain God given peace.
Fair winds to ye matey.
Chick Huettel is a long-time Walton County resident and former owner of Bayou Antiques. He is a member of a number of local organizations including the Emerald Coast Archeological Society.

HIGH TIDE
Chick Huettel

 

[greenroomsurfer]

:angry:

 

[scooterbug44]

HMMMMM, wonder where Chuck stands on the issue?

I'd love if they gave more details as what I heard mentioned years ago was rather small scale and funky.

 

[Smiling JOe]

HMMMMM, wonder where Chuck stands on the issue?

I'd love if they gave more details as what I heard mentioned years ago was rather small scale and funky.

It's "Chick," and he lives just down the street. After reading the article, I'd say he is against commercial in a residential, but maybe, I'm misreading it.

 

[Bobby J]

It's "Chick," and he lives just down the street. After reading the article, I'd say he is against commercial in a residential, but maybe, I'm misreading it.

But it is commercial? Correct? It may be commercial in residential but it has always been that way. I think done right it could be cool.

 

[Sandcastle]

Before we closed on our lot in Daughettes several years ago we were given a copy of the covenants. They clearly identify the commercial lots. They have existed for sixty years.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I believe the C&Rs designate two of different type of business lots in Daughette's. I'm just going from memory, and I have studied that part of the C&Rs in particular in the last few years. Since they were originally established back around 1957, they are not easily accessible on the Clerk of Courts website, and are somewhat hidden with the other documents recorded prior to 1972.

We call it "commercial" as opposed to residential, but it is very limited, from what I recall, and it does make a distinction between commercial and "Business."

Edit: just found the C&Rs.

"Business A" lots:
A. No setback shall be required with reference to either front or side lot lines.

B. No enterprise shall be conducted or carried on, engaged in or permitted which constitutes a nuisance to the adjoining property owners by reason of the emission of cinders, dust, fumes, gas, odor, noise, refuse matter, smoke, vapor, or vibration.

"Business B" lots:
A. All buildings permitted on Residence "A" lots shall also be permitted, and in such event shall be governed by respective restrictions for Residential "A" lots.

B. Bulidings shall be permitted which are designed and constructed for, single, double, or multiple residential.

C. No building or structure shall be erected on any lot nearer than ten feet to the front lot line.

D. No enterprise shall be conducted or carried on, engaged in or permitted which constitutes a nuisance to the adjoining property owners by reason of the emission of cinders, dust, fumes, gas, odor, noise, refuse matter, smoke, vapor, or vibration.

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The C&Rs expire on Dec 31, 1987 "at which time the said covenants and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of time of ten years each.
I see nothing written describing how an HOA is to form. There is nothing I see noting election of HOA representatives.

 

[Bobby J]

They had an HOA a few years back. The president use to own the home the Wagners purchased. My grandma was involved. They always asked me if I would be interested in getting it up and runnig again but I am torn on all the politics HOA's create. I like it simple in the dog.