Walton County, FL Special Events & Permits: Parklets (2026)

Sec. 20-84(g), part of the Motorized Scooter Pilot Share Program ordinance, addresses 'parklets and private partnerships.' A permitted motorized scooter system operator is 'encouraged' to partner with a private property owner to place a corral, dock, or rack on that property, provided public use and access is secured through an easement or right-of-way dedication. The private property must sit adjacent to an arterial or collector road, or have access to a local or private road that reaches an arterial or collector without passing an existing single-family home.

Any parking facility created this way cannot sit within a required setback or buffer, and must meet the same landscape and setback standards that apply to off-street parking for non-residential uses, and to parking requirements for residential uses. The section's operative sentence is the parklet mechanism itself: in conjunction with a tenant or property owner, an operator 'may request the conversion of an on-street parking space into a parklet with a corral, dock, mobility hub, rack, and/or station.'

Because this parklet authority sits inside the scooter-share ordinance, it only exists where that program operates, which Sec. 20-80(h) limits to South Walton, south of the Choctawhatchee Bay and Intracoastal Waterway. Any parklet request still runs through the board's competitive permit and license agreement process under Sec. 20-84(a)-(b), meaning the county, not the operator alone, decides whether a given on-street space converts.