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Originally Posted by biker1
I don't believe we will ever see your suggestion implemented. Besides the obvious expense of hiring a team to look for infractions, I believe the larger issue is the potential for selective enforcement and the subsequent legal ramifications. With the current complaint driven system, I do not believe there is any potential for selective enforcement as long as Community Standards investigates and enforces the deed restrictions with all complaints. With your suggestion, any infractions that were missed (and there are 62,000 homes in The Villages that would need to be continuously monitored) could be the basis of a subsequent claim of selective enforcement. I have seen this happen.
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There already IS selective enforcement. Infractions of violations are ONLY enforced if someone complains. So you can have a peeing dog statue on your lawn for 20 years, while your next door neighbor gets infracted when his landscaper misses a square foot of grass that grows to 5 inches instead of the maximum 4 inches allowed, because that square foot is around the flagpole that the guy down the street doesn't like.
Community standards will go to check out the flagpole, and measure the grass, and say "oh yes indeedy, you are a violator alright, shame on you!" and walk right past that peeing dog statue next door on the way back to their golf cart, smile at the statue, and drive on. Because no one reported a complaint against it.