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I don’t know how I managed to miss this thread, but here I am.

Both Chuckinca and Silvertoken have covered most of the points quite well, but a couple of corrections are needed.

The governing body of Stonecrest as established under the covenants is the POA. The current number of sold homes is 1881 and when it reaches 2000, the developer is required to turn over control of the POA board to officers elected by the residents.

Several years ago, the developer established a Stonecrest Board Committee (SBC). It consists of residents that were selected by the developer to deal with resident issues and make recommendations to management and the POA board. It is essentially equivalent to TV’s AAC.

The Stonecrest Homeowners Organization (SHO) is an ad hoc group of Stonecrest residents that are upset with the developer mostly regarding responsibility for maintaining retention ponds that are located on the privately owned golf course. But what the SHO has failed to acknowledge is that roughly half of the streets in Stonecrest drain into those ponds via underground conduits. I know this because I examined the engineering plans that were submitted to the St. Johns River Water Management District as part of the approval process for our community. So why shouldn't the residents be responsible for maintaining them. The SHO has no authority over anything in Stonecrest.