5 Calhoun Ave Unit 607, Destin, FL 32541

South Harbor Mixed Use District

The South Harbor Mixed Use zoning district is intended to preserve SHMU area as a world-class fishing village that is open to the public and accommodates a mixed-use festive marketplace. The SHMU zoning district accomplishes these goals by encouraging tourist commer+cial development designed to preserve waterfront views, preserve water dependent activity, foster a pedestrian-oriented environment, and promote convenient public access to the harbor boardwalk and charter fishing opportunities for the public. It is the intent of this zoning district to encourage commercial hotel, motel, bed and breakfast establishments, other commercial transient living accommodations, and short-term residential uses. Residential uses shall be prohibited within the SHMU area, unless such residential developments incorporate a minimum of 4,500 sq ft of publicly leasable commercial space e.g. retail, office, restaurant, etc. The term publicly leasable commercial space shall mean: a space that is open to the public to lease and use; not a space or use that is exclusively for the owners or guest of the residential development in question; shall be heated and cooled square footage; and shall not constitute that portion of the harbor boardwalk that is reserved for ingress and egress for public use. The purpose of requiring this minimum publicly leasable commercial space is to foster and encourage access by the public to the development and the harbor boardwalk. Additionally, parcels having frontage on the Harbor shall provide in their development a commercial storefront equal to a minimum of 50 percent of the width of the property along the harbor front. Such commercial storefront may be distributed between the first three floors of the building facing the harbor and all three floors must be accessible by pedestrians from the Harbor side of the development.