Is SoWal ready for it's own miniature golf course?

[scooterbug44]

I was just responding to it not being allowed due to "scenic" issues. A hedge or being away from the road isn't art.

And since mini-golf isn't an evil corporate giant that devours your soul, Wal-mart has nothing to do with it.

 

[Sand Cliffs Brat]

We used to have one. I remember where it was, does anyone else? Hint: There is a church there now if memory serves me right. Used to be an on again off again package store.

 

[wrobert]

I was just responding to it not being allowed due to "scenic" issues. A hedge or being away from the road isn't art.

And since mini-golf isn't an evil corporate giant that devours your soul, Wal-mart has nothing to do with it.

Ah come on now. There use to be literally hundreds of Putt Putt courses across this country. I guess they are now extinct. One day so will wal mart only to be replaced by something else.

 

[Minnie]

Miniature golf does not have to look like Putt-Putt, I have played at several that were simply a smaller version of a golf course. One possibly even incorporating local landmarks, well done it would be as attractive as the local playground areas.

 

[wrobert]

Miniature golf does not have to look like Putt-Putt, I have played at several that were simply a smaller version of a golf course. One possibly even incorporating local landmarks, well done it would be as attractive as the local playground areas.

Well I do not think it will happen. Walton County LDC, Chapter 13, page 9 of 38, under prohibited uses in the Scenic Corridor, Water parks, go carts, arcades, amusement parks, miniature golf courses, batting cages, or any other project which are primarily used for the purposes of outdoor entertainment (not including public and private golf courses). Also any imitation of natural or manmade features including, but not limited to, mountains, volcanoes, gorges, animals, dinosaurs, windmills, oil derricks, ariplanes or any other artificial depiction.


I always heard that golf courses were one of the most ecological unsound things you could have in an area, due to water and fertilizer usage. Yet that appears to be the only thing you can have in sowal. Sort of goes against the whole environmentally friendly thing, does it not?

 

[Minnie]

Also any imitation of natural or manmade features including, but not limited to, mountains, volcanoes, gorges, animals, dinosaurs, windmills, oil derricks, ariplanes or any other artificial depiction.

Based on that description I am surprised the Alys Beach playground survived.

 

[Miss Kitty]

I was just responding to it not being allowed due to "scenic" issues. A hedge or being away from the road isn't art.

And since mini-golf isn't an evil corporate giant that devours your soul, Wal-mart has nothing to do with it.

Start a hedge fund!

 

[30A Skunkape]

Robert, is the scenic corridor 30-A or does it include HWY 98, 331, etc?

 

[wrobert]

Robert, is the scenic corridor 30-A or does it include HWY 98, 331, etc?

I am reading 30-A, I think somewhere else in this huge book of regulations it says 98, and I am pretty sure 331 to the bridge based on a case that went to the BCC looking for an exception to display a model home. It also includes all connector roads to 30-a, south of 98.


Like most things, the playground may have survived because they have not gotten a complaint about it being in violation, if it is.


I found it. 13.02.01 covers 98 and 331. Withing 400' of the edge of pavement. According to this then the four laning of 331 is going to expand the scenic corridor a bit.

The 30-A scenic corridor only applies to properties that are contiguous to the applicable roads and connector roads.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I guess it is illegal, but could there be a better use for the 'ruins' of Chateau de Paris than mini golf?!

By the way, Alys has a windmill near the back of the property, but they are probably grinding wheat or something back there.