[Chellybean]

Why doesn't ARC have checks and balances?
People go to ARC for landscaping improvements and they draw the landscaping correctly on the application. They are then awarded a permit Usually with stipulations to stay out of Easements. The permit is done by the Homeowner and not the Landscaping company and the Landscaping company is not regulated under DBPR so they run wild through the Villages.
Then At times more then not, the homeowner directs the Landscaper to put in landscaping either in the easement or right up to the lot line.
Then if the adjoining homeowner is not happy with that he has to put in a complaint, which puts neighbors at opposition with each other and causes bad blood between neighbors. If ARC had someone to enforce the Permits so they are done correctly we would not have bad blood between neighbors. HMMMMM this should be changed.
When Landscaping is put to the lot line then it forces contractors to enter on the adjoining property to maintain there landscaping, fertilizing etc... With this Zoyia Grass it makes it then impossible to keep a nice lawn with the added traffic.