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Originally Posted by Happydaz
Oh I see now. It is the CDD’s that own the squares. That includes the Brownwood and Sumter Landing CDD’s and all of the residential CDD’s 5-13 that contribute to another entity, the PWAC, who uses both our amenity fees to fund the repairs and improvements at the squares. So who owns the squares? The county? The public? The state? The Developer? No the CDD’s own the squares. I think that one could see we Villagers along with the members of The Brownwood and Sumter Landing CDD’s together own the squares. Somebody has to own it or why would they come to us Villagers for money? If as you state only the Brownwood and Sumter Landing CDD’s own the squares then what maneuver brought all our residential CDD’s into the picture to also fund these repairs and improvements if we don’t share ownership?
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The Resident Academy, offered monthly as I recall, is a great place to learn the facts of how the Villages works.
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PWAC will be explained in that class.
PWAC is also explained on its page under districtgov.org
Basically, there is a benefit in pooling money for maintenance of common areas. PWAC was created to pool funds from Districts south of 466 to maintain their common areas. New Districts through 13 were added to the PWAC.
Being part of the PWAC does not relinquish ownership of the property or facilities within the CDD. BCDD owns the land that the Brownwood square sits on; BCDD owns the square. Some of my D10 maintenance funds were put into the pool (PWF) that paid for the repair of the windmill and water tower but that doesn't give me or D10 any ownership over the square the windmilll sits on. Likewise, the BCDD contributes maintenance funds to the PWF which are used to pay for the flowers in the circles on Buena Vista at Hillsborough and Hendry but in no way does that convey any ownership of that land to the BCDD.
We Villagers along with the BCDD and SLCDD provide maintenance fees to the PWF to pay for maintenance of common areas and features but that doesn't mean we Villagers can lay claim to anything not an amenity that is outside the District we live in.