Community Development District 1’s potential divorce from the Architectural Review Committee has taken an awkward turn.
CDD 1 supervisors agreed Friday during a meeting at Savannah Center to hold a public hearing on July 10, where they could vote to leave the ARC and hire a paid architectural review hearing officer.
The ARC is an all-volunteer board of residents that meets for several hours each Wednesday, reviewing applications for home additions, patio improvements, driveway enhancements, and landscaping projects. A few years ago, the District Government introduced the option of using a trained hearing officer to review applications on behalf of the CDDs rather than relying on the volunteer board. The Community Development District 6 Board of Supervisors could not find a volunteer and recently switched to an ARC hearing officer. Community Development District 11 in the Fruitland Park section of The Villages is using a hearing officer, as are the CDDs south of State Road 44…