Walton County, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

06 of the Walton County Land Development Code (Appendix C) sets the ground rules for where and how a homeowner in unincorporated Walton County parks vehicles on a single-family lot. Subsection (A) lists the acceptable paving materials for any vehicular parking area: asphalt, crushed shells, gravel, dolomite, sand clay, graded aggregate or concrete. Access drives and aisles serving the parking area generally must be paved, but the Code carves out a narrow exception for the parking stalls themselves: up to 25 percent may remain unpaved with the Planning Director's approval, rising to 50 percent for a place of worship or other institutional use that does not generate daily parking demand.

Before signing off, the property owner must supply evidence that the unpaved surface will not cause erosion, reduce water quality, or otherwise degrade the natural or built environment, and any unpaved area approved this way cannot be counted toward the lot's required landscaped buffer or open space. Subsection (C) then fixes where parking has to go on a single-family detached or attached lot: unless a PUD master plan, neighborhood plan, or development order specifically says otherwise, every space provided to meet the county's minimum parking standard must sit within the front or rear yard, ruling out side-yard parking pads.

The two rules work together with the drainage standard in subsection (D), which requires every off-street parking facility to be graded so it does not create a nuisance for a neighbor's property. These standards apply countywide in the unincorporated area, from the rural north near the Choctawhatchee River to the 30A beach communities of South Walton.