Community Development District 14 supervisors have rendered a decision about the future of anonymous complaints.
The CDD 14 board has decided that as of Monday, Dec. 1, it will accept anonymous complaints, but only from CDD 14 residents. Complainants will not have to submit their names, but they will have to provide a unit number when lodging a complaint.
Some residents of CDD 14 had called for complainants to identify themselves.
Howard Pollock of Village of Lake Denham recently expressed frustration that he and six of his neighbors were reported via anonymous complaints for having landscaping and decoration violations.
CDD 14 includes 3,209 homes in the villages of Dabney, Lake Denham and Newell, all within the Leesburg section of The Villages.
Florida Statute 190 provides community development districts with
the ability to adopt rules to enforce certain exterior deed restrictions once the majority of the board of supervisors have been elected through the Qualified Election Process, which has not yet occurred in CDD 14. However, the Developer, who still officially wields that power, allowed the CDD 14 board to choose whether or not to keep anonymous complaints.