[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

If I understand your question...can someone purchase land and design their own residence in The Villages?....No. From my understanding, everything must comply with the master plan which includes a variety of designs. One example is this quote from the deed restrictions for Spring Arbor, "The home shall be a conventionally built home, either site built or prefabricated, which must be placed on the Lot and constructed by the Association, or it's designee, of a design, size and other qualities ..."
It even describes the pitch of the house and limits the size of a garage.

The older area, where I live, is restricted to manufactured homes and stick built homes on slabs. If a home is replaced (because the area is built-out), a new home must also be approved by the developer and stick to the original design of manufactured homes in the community.

Back in the 1980s the plant, which is located in The Villages, built the manufactured homes and still builds the precut designer homes and all others constructed in TV. After the manufactured homes were put in my area, the original design of the manufactured homes were upgraded and placed on slab. They had about three basic color schemes and designs. Then they moved on to the other areas of TV with different designs for the stick-built homes. It is the same with the newer models. They are built in TV by TV. You are restricted to the designs provided by TV with the precut homes with a few changes to the design and color schemes. They are built by TV. You can finance through TV's mortgage company, buy or sell a TV built home with TV's agents and put your money in TVs banks. I think is a genius plan contrived during the same time Walt Disney devised his masterplan for swamp land in Florida. At the time masterplans were pretty new.

The Villages Community Development Districts website has downloadable "Declaration of Deed Restrictions" for each of the numerous areas, units or villages within the masterplanned community. It is divided by the three counties where The Villages is located and the family units. It defines the easements, the egresses, the mailboxes, signage, driveways, the collection of assessments, etc.

http://www.districtgov.org/departmen.../download.aspx

Please allow me to hire you, BK, if I should need something carefully researched. Wow. I am greatly impressed with this interesting information and your ability to find it and present it.