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That s what I hate the most, she said. It would have been such a lovely place.
And in many respects, much of Walton County will remain a lovely place, inasmuch as thousands of acres are protected from development as state forestlands, within the Nokuse Plantation private nature preserve, as parts of the sprawling Eglin Air Force Base reservation or as undevelopable wetlands.
At the same time, however, more and more people are looking at Walton County, particularly the south end along its beaches, as a place to live, work, retire or visit. U.S. Census figures show that the county s population grew by almost 20,000 people between 2010 and 2019 to more than 70,000. And the Walton County Tourist Development Council reported recently that for 2020, a year impacted by coronavirus-related travel restrictions and a relatively brief closure of vacation rental properties, nearly 4.5 million people visited the county.
Under the amendment approved at their May 11 meeting, which is still subject to some state review, commissioners established a requirement that an affirmative vote of a majority plus one member who are present and eligible to vote must be made before that height limit can be revised, either up or down.
In effect, the amendment means that any changes to the 50-foot building height limit must be approved by four of the five commissioners rather than the three commissioners who would routinely comprise a majority vote of the board.
The 50-foot height limit can be traced locally to the 1980s, as the beachside community of Seaside began to develop. Seaside was a cradle for the New Urbanism approach to development, a human-scaled approach that places residential and commercial development in walkable proximity.