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OSCEOLA County, FL, A battle over amenities in the Cypress Woods neighborhood is brewing in Poinciana.
Residents in the community on Marigold Avenue near State Road 580 are vowing to fight for improvements they said they've paid for in homeowners association fees, but never received.
After almost 20 years in Cypress Woods, Geraldine Bailey is fed up.
“They stomped on us and that’s why we want change,” she said.
She said it all boils down to the red areas on a map of her neighborhood.
“These are supposed to be filled with either parks or rec centers or something for the community. But after 18 years, we never got anything. My grandchildren grew up and we got nothing,” Bailey said.
Like all residents in Poinciana, Bailey pays the homeowners association $250 a year.
But people in the 600-plus homes that make up Cypress Woods have been paying the county another $250 since 2007 for extra amenities like upgraded lighting and landscaping.
Bailey and others said the agreement fell short.
They said the back of their community was supposed to be closed, but now a public road runs through it.
Val Ramos, who was the assistant manager of the homeowners association in the late 1990s when the homes were being built, said the homeowners were misled.
“I think their sales people were selling it one way but it was being submitted to the county another way,” Ramos said.
A vice president for AV Homes, the developer of Poinciana, said residents were never promised the amenities they’re demanding now.
Poinciana is a settlement and census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Florida. It lies southwest of Kissimmee and about 14 miles (23 km) east of Haines City. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP had a population of 53,193.
As of April 2012 the population of the 10 Villages which make up the Association of Poinciana Villages (APV), which covers a wider area than the CDP, was reported as 69,857. According to the latest census reports the adjoining tracts outside the CDP represent an additional 29,914 persons. Depending on the definition, the greater Poinciana Area represents a population of between 53,193 and 83,107. This puts Poinciana as one of the fastest growth areas for Central Florida over the past decade.
Poinciana was planned as a Planned Unit Development (PUD). Most of the PUD was developed in 10 Villages, which form the Association of Poinciana Villages (APV). Four of the villages are in Osceola County and six are in Polk County. Located on approximately 47,000 acres, the villages are a deed-restricted community, governed by a homeowner association, the APV. Solivita (Village 10), one of the Villages within Polk County, is a 55+ community, and comprises two Community Development Districts, Poinciana CDD and Poinciana West CDD.
Neighbor subdivisions such as Waterford, Little Creek, Brighton Lakes, Oak Hammock Preserve, Crescent Lakes, Trafalgar, Doral, Isles of Bellalago, Cypress Cove, Cypress Woods, Deerwood, Wilderness, Bellalago, etc. are outside the CDP. Many of these subdivisions were defined in the original Poinciana boundary PUD but were developed as separate communities outside the APV.
As of the census of 2010 there were 53,193 residing in the CDP with only 22.6% White non-Hispanic. In addition there were 29,914 residing in the non-CDP neighborhoods. Poinciana is 35.8% Puerto Rican and is considered the "Little Puerto Rico" of Florida. In 2000 the median income for a household in the CDP was $37,172, and the median income for a family was $37,688. Males had a median income of $26,860 versus $20,934 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,590. About 12.0% of families and 12.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.9% of those under age 18 and 12.3% of those age 65 or over. Likewise, 2010 income information will be updated when available.
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