16245 E Burns Drive

This home sits on a quiet dead-end street, yet closer to town than most. The 1.31-acre corner lot backs to a canal boundary that will never be developed, giving you privacy that's getting harder to find. AR zoning means room for horses, a workshop, RVs, boats, trailers, and the freedom to use your property the way you choose. Inside, you'll find impact windows and doors throughout, fresh interior and exterior paint, stainless steel appliances, a split-bedroom floor plan, Roman tub, purified drinking water at the kitchen sink, and a screened patio overlooking your backyard. Need a garage? The current bonus space can be converted back in an afternoon thanks to removable panels. This isn't just more land. It's fewer compromises. Picture the corner. Canal running along the back boundary -- that tree line is permanent, the water is permanent, the privacy is permanent because the state doesn't sell canal buffers. On your east side, a road instead of a neighbor. On two sides you have open space that will never change. That's the geometry of a corner lot on a canal in unincorporated Palm Beach County, and it's the thing you cannot manufacture on a standard interior lot regardless of what you spend. The numbers: 57,064 square feet. 1.31 acres. AR zoning. No HOA. No deed restrictions beyond Palm Beach County zoning code. Most households in Broward County are living on 7,000 square feet and paying an HOA to tell them what color their mailbox can be. This is a different kind of property. One thing to address directly: the garage. The previous owner converted part of it to a home office using 3-inch insulated panel walls -- styrofoam core, aluminum skin on both sides. Lightweight. Not structural. If you want the full garage back, two people and a Saturday afternoon. Disclosed because it deserves a straight answer, not because it's a complication. AR -- Agricultural Residential -- is Palm Beach County's designation for land where you are the decision-maker. You can build a guest house by right, subject to county setbacks, no variance required. Put up a pole barn. Build a pool. Keep horses. Store your RV and boat on your own property. You file with Palm Beach County Building Division when you're ready -- that is the only approval process. No HOA means no board meeting, no violation notice, no architectural review committee. The county sets the rules. Everyone else stays out of it. Turn the tap on a Friday night when you move in and pour a glass. The Kinetico K5 reverse osmosis system -- installed by Aqua Soft Water Systems in January 2017 -- delivers purified drinking water at the kitchen sink and refrigerator. Ten-year warranty on parts and membrane. Private well serves the property. No city water connection, no monthly water utility bill. Southern Boulevard runs east to the Turnpike in under 10 minutes. Wellington is 15 minutes east. West Palm Beach is 25. Palm Beach International Airport is 30. Here's what most buyers miss about this address: you are closer to all of it than the overwhelming majority of Acreage properties. The Acreage runs deep -- some addresses are 20 to 25 minutes from anything. This one is not. You get the land, the privacy, the zoning, and the dead-end quiet without paying the distance tax most of the Acreage charges. Saturday morning has a ritual. The Royal Palm Beach Green Market and Bazaar runs lakeside at Village Hall, 1050 Royal Palm Beach Blvd -- Saturdays 9 AM to 1 PM, seasonal October through April, highest-traffic green market in Palm Beach County. Ten minutes from your driveway. After the market, breakfast at Seeds Café, 1036 Royal Palm Beach Blvd Suite B, inside Veterans Park -- locally owned, Wednesday through Sunday 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM, fried green tomato eggs Benedict, homemade biscuits. For the afternoon, load the horses and head eight miles north on Seminole Pratt Whitney to J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area -- 60,348 acres at 6528 Northlake Blvd. Equestrian trails, hiking, hunting in season, freshwater fishing. Before most people in Boca have finished coffee you've been on open trail for two