Community Development Districts are choosing from among home-repainting options in The Villages.
The Amenity Authority Committee and Community Development Districts 1 through 8 conducted a workshop Sept. 27 to discuss house repaintings.
In that workshop, a color palette was reviewed and out of that meeting came four options for each of the CDDs to consider independently:
Option 1 No change in current process. Architectural Review Committee approval is not required for home repainting.
Option 2 Exception Based Process. Owners re-painting their homes are only required to submit an ARC application for approval if the proposed color is not the original color or is not a color on the District’s approved color palette or within the color palette’s hue range.
Option 3 ARC approval for home re-painting (original and color palette only.) All home repainting requests are submitted to the ARC for review and approval in accordance with guidelines set forth in the ARC Manual.
Option 4 ARC approval for all home repainting. No palette. If you don’t go with original color, then you will be required to go before ARC.
Enforcement will be complaint based, said District Manager Janet Tutt.
The process is designed to keep home colors harmonious and eliminate hot, electric, neon or energetic colors.
On Friday, CDDs 1, 2, 3 and 4 met with a mix of decisions on the matter:
District 1 Option 2
District 2 Option 4 (With the provision that if homeowner uses the original color you don’t go have to go before the ARC.)
District 3 Option 2
District 4 Option 3 (CDD 4 Chairman Don Deakin was not in attendance.)
The action provides direction to district staff. It will come back before the CDDs later this year.
Marty Wilber, a member of the Architectural Review Committee, was thrilled with Friday’s action.
“This will eliminate a lot of the conjecture,” he said.
He added the ARC has been seeing about 5 to 10 house repaints per week.
The new standards would only apply to Premier and Designer homes, not villas.
Repainting of homes in the Lady Lake portion of The Villages will be the topic of an AAC workshop set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at Savannah Center. The topic of the future of the old El Santiago restaurant building is also on the agenda for that workshop.
